Toilet seats

[Buddy Bradley]

However forcibly I screw a toilet seat together, they always seem to slide sideways after a few weeks.

Am I doing something wrong somehow? I don't see how I can be getting the instructions in anyway confused - they're always the basic "screw the long bolt into the round bit, insert through holes, tighten nuts and washers from underneath" style of seat. Maybe there are more expensive, reliable seats available to toilet seat connoisseurs of which I'm not aware?

I'm questioning my manhood...

 

[geminisnake]

How cheap are the seats you're buying? Maybe you need to get one like ours that doesn't have the long plastic bolt. OUrs just has two hinges that go through the holes in the toilet.

 

[mr steev]

I've been having exactly the same problem. I've come to the conclusion that we have an old toilet and the rim is quite narrow whereas I'm guessing that newer ones, which new seats are designed for have a fatter and flatter rim.

 

[stuff_it]

Just be glat it's not one of the new ones, they are so low that the poo sticks to the back every time you crap.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

A top tip I got from here is to vaseline the bolts. This won't stop it sliding sideways but when you have to remove a loo seat you can, because the bolts won't be all corroded from years of pee splashback......

 

[clicker]

My friemd has just had a new toilet fitted...with a lid that you gently tip downwards and it closes all spookily on it's own....I have toilet seat lid envy....want one.

 

[Orang Utan]

never had any trouble with the bog standard wooden toilet seat we have.

 

[Orang Utan]

My friemd has just had a new toilet fitted...with a lid that you gently tip downwards and it closes all spookily on it's own....I have toilet seat lid envy....want one.

no need for that if you're a fella though

 

[clicker]

no need for that if you're a fella though

My existing one is unintentionally a man trap, the lid is fitted ever so slightly too far forward....if a man is standing up in front of it and a heavy lorry goes past on it's way to Dover....kaboom.....it drops with the speed and viciousness of a hangman's noose. Sainsburys lorries are the worst.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Is it your loo seat that did this trapping?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-10979486

 

[spliff]

Mrs. M is up at 5.30 on a Monday morning talking about toilet seats .. .. .. or is she?

Blue watch/red watch?

Oh deary me.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

How cheap are the seats you're buying? Maybe you need to get one like ours that doesn't have the long plastic bolt. OUrs just has two hinges that go through the holes in the toilet.

Anything from the cheapest Argos £7.99 ones up to the sparkly ones that are about twenty quid. They don't generally have a plastic bolt; there's a metal bolt that you screw into the metal cover, and then rubber washers and plastic nuts that screw onto the metal bolt from underneath.

Where did you get yours from? Can you find a picture of the hinge part so I know what you're talking about?

 

[gentlegreen]

My seat is a heavy duty commercial one but it's still prone to falling.

 

[ChrisFilter]

I know people who'd vomit on site of a toilet that dirty, gg. You're like stig of the dump!

 

[gentlegreen]

I know people who'd vomit on site of a toilet that dirty, gg. You're like stig of the dump!

it's only dust.

The seat and bowl are clean enough.

Plus it's only me that uses it.

 

[tarannau]

You are such a grimbo GG. I'll send you a duster in the post if you like.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Doesn't the dust bother you?

 

[gentlegreen]

Doesn't the dust bother you?

If I disturb the dust, I'll upset the spiders.

 

[fractionMan]