Toilet Seats (in general)

I don't recall seats in the 70s constantly getting loose and going off centre. I can't buy a set now that seems to be able to hold its position.

Always with independent hinges instead of a bar - surely bog seat holes aren't *that* far misaligned?

I replaced both in the main house when we moved here 14 years ago with what was actually B&Qs least expensive option. STWNFI liked them because they had a wooden cover over the fixings area as well as wooden seats. I liked them because they we the least expensive:-)

They are both still perfect.

We left the original in the granny annex which we then let as a holiday let for the past eight years. It is still there and still perfect with no loss of parts.

I've no idea what make it is but its as fitted by the housing association who owned the place before us and ran it as a care home.

Mike

I seem to have no issues. My last one lasted over 20 years and only broke due to a large item dropping on one corner and cracking the plastic, which was in itself better than cracking the actual toilet, after all. Not sure about these friction soft lowering mechanisms though, Mine is almost non existent after a year. Brian

My toilet uses blind hole fixings and the white plastic ones that came with the seat/bog were utter crap. After a couple of attempts to fix the seat securely to the pan I found what worked for me was

(there are other Ebay/Amazon sellers - and some that include the rest of the kit which is unnecessary if replacing the existing fixings)

_BUT_ the hole in the pan was still larger than the top part of the fixing so out came my box of assorted Aldi/lidl O rings and I found some the size of the hole that fitted over the top part of the fixing. I fitted 3 off O rings to each fixing. This kept the fixing centered in the hole whilst tightening. I think this non-centering of these blind hole fixings is the reason that many become loose, and it starts the first time you sit on the seat. Once the fixing is buckled on one side or slightly bent it will never fully tighten in the correct place.

Previous to changing the toilet I did have one where I fitted a cheap real wood seat and I see that some of the sheds/argos etc. still claim real wood seats at reasonable prices.

With fixings where you can get to the back/underside of the pan to tighten/undo the nut I've always greased up the screw tread during fitting. It must be a rare household where pee or cleaning products don't seep under the fitting to form some layer of crud or corrosion that hampers removal years later.

I got one by Bemis (or Bremis, or something) that seems quite good. It doesn't move.

Our first "soft close" seat (maybe from Wilko) lasted about a year before it went wrong. I replaced it with one from B&Q and that is still fine after 4 years. I think the design of the soft close mechanism varies between makes and the lousy ones fail after a short time.

My original 1976 Ideal Standard/Pampas green bog seat is going fine. The rubber pads have cracked slightly but that's all.

So all those people who chucked out perfectly good, but green bogs, basins and baths have shot themselves in the bumcheeks.

'We aim to please. You aim too please.'

Stand closer. It might be shorter than you think.

Having lived through the 1970s, I think Pampas was a sort of baby diarrhoea yellow.

Abscess green was more likely to be Avocado.

Owain

I'm using the original one that was fitted in about 1950 when the house was built (it's concave section, so the bones fit). OK, it's black, no lid etc., but it has a bar and stays put. I've though of changing it for a paler one with a lid but, so far, haven't managed to find a similar one. Also need to be a big opening, for some reason I can't fathom.

Nope. Pampas green is very green, but a lot paler than Avocado which was the colour of those carrots that posh people buy at Waitrose.

Crikey. This one is listed as 'vintage'.

How very true.

Something or another on our loo seats wears out or breaks almost every year and it's a dirty job to replace them.

We never seem to be able to get decent fixings.

FAIL!

These were supposedly the last two lines of a notice in one of the IoM ferries' gentlemen's toilets. It should actually have read:-

"and we aim to please.

Now, you aim too, please!"

If you must quote, then at least get the feckin' punctuation right! It really really does make all the difference in the world.

I don't actually think the one I saw was punctuated. Maybe I was concentrating too much on my aim !!!

But aiming when Storm Zebedee is passing up the Irish Sea is difficult.

The one (from B&Q if I recollect) is still going strong after 8 years.

SteveW

Once I ordered toilet seat hinges from Hafele and replaced them and refitted the seats with the old wooden parts. It was expensive and not really worth the bother, and those hinges broke as well.

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