fixing a toilet seat

You can buy generic replacement fixing kits from B&Q etc. Depends exactly what sort of seat you've got though.

David

Magnet onna stick/string, if the bit that's dropped is steel?

Si

Wot he said, or replace the seat - they are cheap as chips. Wickes do the best el cheapo IMO.

Enclosed casing - is that like a Victorian Earth Closet?

Thanks everyone. I'm off to buy a new one!!!

Fact is that standard design for bog seat fittings is rubbish. The threaded studs that screw into the flat plates always come loose sooner or later. After a while it become impossible to tighten them as they corrode, even if you grease them as I do. Yes buy some replacement sets, with the accent on some. Screwfix and others do them very cheaply. Just replace as needed. About once a year perhaps.

BTW has anyone come across a better designed replacement fitting.

Agreed in general. I change a surprising number of bog seats in offices & industrial units. Sometimes 6-8 at a time.

I use LSX on them to stick them in place, seems to work.

No, I can say the Wickes el cheapo bog seats are now my default replacement & I've gone right off the SF cheap ones.

I did buy one of these a while ago

Thanks for the suggestions. Maybe I'll be able to extend bog seat cycle time a bit?

Peter Scott

We got something like this in our new loo.

Will never fit another DIY shed toilet seat again.

Tim

replying to Leonards, Richard Simpkins wrote: I used No More Nails last night and it appears to have worked which I can't quite get my head around but will watch it after reading your comment about it working itself loose.

"posted on January 10, 2009, 1:37 pm"

That Homeowners hub thing is a pain in the proverbial, how come it keeps on regurgitating those ancient posts?

Because it can. ;-)

If you look at the site you'll see that it regularly promotes ancient posts as "unanswered questions" or "top threads". Presumably to generate traffic (and income).

Tim

Not a worthwhile pastime!

I think the time has come to try to work out how to killfile these re-posts to them.

Adding @example.com to your killfile (with whatever wildcard character your filter uses) stops 99% of them. Not the responses alas. ;-)

Tim

Anything is better than nothing!

Thanks, I'll try it.