I have moved into a house with a "modern" toilet. The porcelain encloses the sides giving no side access to the nuts attaching the seat. The pan is too close to the rear wall to allow me to get in even by bending my arm somewhere between the wrist and elbow. (!) The seat needs replacing. Are there tools available to do this? Do I have to remove the pan?
Advice please.
-- Martin
There should be 2 or 4 screws (possibly behind plastic camouflaging trim) at the sides near the base these (wood)screw into plastic brackets behind the ceramic. One you have undone these you should be able to move the pan forward and various maintenance actions. The outlet connector will likely be a flexible hose.
Do you know what make it is? Roca do a toilet which sounds similar, where the seat has a quick release bracket to be taken off for cleaning, and the mechanism attaches from the top - no access to underneath required. I've got the instructions for the one I'm fitting next week if it is similar.
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Nuts or wing nuts? Can you get at real nuts with a socket and extension with a ratchet driver out the back?
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Would this help?
I installed one that sounds a bit like that.
In fact it did not have any nuts at all. The bolts passed through some rubber wallplug type affairs that had a threadded nut at the end. As you tightened the bolt from the top, it shortened the rubber bung and forced its radius to expand, thereby jamming it into the holes in the procelain.
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