Toilet Seat

TBH they look like bog standard (sorry!) top fixing mounts (they consist of a machine screw and end cap in a rubber sleeve. As you tighten the screw, the sleeve expands and grips the holes, all without needing to get to the underside of the pan)

That's encouraging - do you think, if I buy another regular toilet seat, I can rely on these existing fitments being the right size and orientation to fit the new seat?

Um, the fitting look like pretty standard "wobble all over the place before falling apart" fittings that can be bought almost anywhere. The way that they're designed allows for a fair amount of adjustment to cope with slightly different hole spacing. Any new seat will come with new fitting. Maybe I haven't understood your problem?

Tim

I've just bought one of them - from B&Q here in the Isle of Man. There was no maker's name on thebox, nor on the fixing instructions. It's a lovely looking loo seat, but it was very difficult to fix - the sort that needs a twelve-fingered Bessarabian dwarf to do it.

Jim Hawkins

If you get a seat designed for top fixing, then it will fit the exiting pan. It will normally come with its own (similar) fixings.

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Typical of modern bog seats, all design and no function. Makes me wonder if the makers actually test/use their own products.

I wonder that about 90% of the things I fit for customers....

Yeah, but it's not fitting to the pan I'm concerned about, it's whether the existing stainless fittings will fit a new seat.

Its a bit of a non issue - the seat will come with a new set.

True, but I want a near-enough identical replacement. This means either finding the same seat, or re-using the stainless fittings.

One of the biggest problems, as I perceive it, is that the usual fixing method is made to cope with large tolerances, and thus doesn't adequately prevent the seat from twisting sideways.

However, it seems that accessible toilets generally have a seat with small lugs engaging with the rim to prevent twisting.

Couldn't this be extended more generally, or would it require closer matching of seat to ceramic?

Chris

If you buy a top fixing seat, the fittings it comes with will look like the ones you have (IFYSWIM)

But will the hinge pins be the same?

Well nuts!! that's what I say..

Jim K

Who cares as long as they fit the seat they come with?

In this particular case, me. I'm trying to ensure that any replacement is non-obvious.

Well assuming that you choose a seat that fits and looks right, then I can't see a very subtle difference in the fittings spoiling the whole thing. As I said, those you posted a picture off looked just like every other top fitting fixture I have seen.

whose bog is this? have you had a "faux-pas"?

I think we should be told.... ;>)

Jim K