Toilet seats: soft close, non shift, and other exciting features. A discussion. 🚽

[danny la rouge]

Out at the Drum buying a new toilet seat from B&Q. Made my choice. Matches my measurements.

It makes big claims. “Always fits. Never slips. Easy to install”.

We’ll see. We’ll see.

 

[story]

One of the things that aggravates me up to eleven is a loo seat that shifts about.

My loo seat shifts about. It was like that when I moved in. Four years ago (I’ve learned how to forestall the shifting, but it still annoys the hell out of me).

When I went to fix or change it the first week I was here, I discovered that the porcelain is buggered, bloody great gap in it right where the seat screws are. I need to either cobble some gadget together to make a vice type arrangement, or change the whole pan.

 

[Winot]

I thought this was going to be about you annoying Mrs DlR by forgetting to put it down.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This must be one of your most exciting threads Danny.

 

[andysays]

This must be one of your most exciting threads Danny.

I'm on the edge of my (toilet) seat

 

[Saffy]

Out at the Drum buying a new toilet seat from B&Q. Made my choice. Matches my measurements.

It makes big claims. “Always fits. Never slips. Easy to install”.

We’ll see. We’ll see.

Soft close?
I'll never go back now.

 

[skyscraper101]

Soft close is essential. Can't be doing with anything else.

 

[existentialist]

Soft close is essential. Can't be doing with anything else.

Yeah. Now that soft close is very prevalent, it's too easy to forget when you encounter one that isn't soft close, and let it slam. Very embarrassing...

 

[surreybrowncap]

Good luck - take your pick..

 

[JimW]

Down at grandads for New Year and there's a whole new toilet in the bathroom, seat firmly attached unlike the old one. Luxury!

 

[MrsArcanum]

Love my loo seat, even though it needs tightening up from time to time as we are a bunch of wrigglers.

Just lift it off to clean, easy.

 

[quimcunx]

Mine has had a mild slip for all the 20 years. Now there is some cosmetic damage so I decided to get a new one. Between trying to get the old one off and the bewildering array of new ones I lost my confidence and gave up. I'll get a whole new toilet at some point soonish.

 

[Elpenor]

Threads you thought were a teuchter original

 

[danny la rouge]

Soft close?
I'll never go back now.

Of course soft close!

 

[danny la rouge]

This must be one of your most exciting threads Danny.

Isn’t it? I’m very happy with it.

 

[JimW]

Thought as a Trekkie you might go for one of the multi-button Japanese ones, could record a few Captain's logs.

 

[story]

Love my loo seat, even though it needs tightening up from time to time as we are a bunch of wrigglers.

Just lift it off to clean, easy.

I want to know more about this!

Lift off easy clean loo seats??

Like suitcases in wheels: how come it’s taken us this long to invent something so obvious?

 

[existentialist]

I want to know more about this!

Lift off easy clean loo seats??

Like suitcases in wheels: how come it’s taken us this long to invent something so obvious?

Yeah, the standard B&Q has a little silver button on the hinge, which, if you press it, lets you lift the whole seat off its mounting pins. It's a good arrangement, AND it lets you do a little clean of the pan around the hinge, which tends to collect (at the very least) dust.

 

[story]

Yeah, the standard B&Q has a little silver button on the hinge, which, if you press it, lets you lift the whole seat off its mounting pins. It's a good arrangement, AND it lets you do a little clean of the pan around the hinge, which tends to collect (at the very least) dust.

Good to know. Thanks existentialist

That’s really the most tricky bit to clean.

Cleaning the seat thoroughly is easier than getting all the way round the bloody hinges.

 

[WouldBe]

Thought as a Trekkie you might go for one of the multi-button Japanese ones, could record a few Captain's logs.

You wouldn't want a dalek one you might impale yourself on something.

 

[MrsArcanum]

I want to know more about this!

Lift off easy clean loo seats??

Like suitcases in wheels: how come it’s taken us this long to invent something so obvious?

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Ours is the D shape one.

 

[chemn]

I'm in the process of moving house and the new place has one loo, and the nuts securing the loo seat hinge bolts are completely inaccessible

 

[pogofish]

Soft close?
I'll never go back now.

Definitely this.

Best lavvy seat ever..!

 

[gentlegreen]

I'm in the process of moving house and the new place has one loo, and the nuts securing the loo seat hinge bolts are completely inaccessible

You might want to get creative with a bit of broom pole...
I actually made this one for the wingnuts that secure the cistern to the main part on mine.

 

[Siouxsie]

I'll sit on anything as long as it's clean....just realised how that sounds ....perverts!.... I was being genuine

 

[Jimmy Don't]

Had to re-read the thread title, after questioning the point of a 'non-shit' toilet seat

 

[klang]

I'm on the edge of my (toilet) seat

Makes me want to sit down

 

[MickiQ]

Soft close are fine for a couple of years ago but the bearings fade over time and you have to buy another or get used to closing them by hand.

 

[MickiQ]

I want to know more about this!

Lift off easy clean loo seats??

Like suitcases in wheels: how come it’s taken us this long to invent something so obvious?

When we had the bathroom done about three years ago, the new was lift off at the touch of a button it was like the discovery of fire in Chez Q.

 

[story]

When we had the bathroom done about three years ago, the new was lift off at the touch of a button it was like the discovery of fire in Chez Q.

Having expended hideous volumes of energy on hate and rage at the old type of suitcase, I’m still amazed and delighted by suitcases on wheels. I look forward to my personal loo seat epiphany.