Toilet Seat

[jennyjoan]

Well well well - I hope Builder can advise me.

Some years ago I dropped a glass into my toilet bowl and smashed it. Nephew replaced toilet - you are talking about 3 years ago - however, he, me, other plumbers etc etc could never could get a toilet seat for it. It always fell off.

I myself realised that nephew put me a very old toilet in with the result new, uptodate etc toilet seats will not stay on.

I paid about £50 to different plumbers to get a toilet seat on and every single one of them have fell off.

Hurray I said to myself since last last Friday my Polish guy spent about 2 hours putting the toilet seat on. I was so happy. But I wasn't impressed as I knew how hard it was for him.

Tonight I sat on it for about 3rd time from Friday and it too fell off.


Without going into it all - I know or think that when my nephew put the "new" toilet in - it was extremtly old and so the new toilet seats wouldn't felt.

Tonight after sitting so comfortably from Friday from Polish guy - seat has finally fell off.

Not in a million years do I believe my Polish FAULT - no way.

But can I say - when nephew put the old toilet in - perhaps 20 years old - the new toilet seat covers don't do the job.

Would any of you agree - it is time for a new toilet inorder to get to get the cover.


For the first time I think I am talking ok - but to put the new toilet in - who will I get. Thanks all.

[tonyav]

Any plumber / bathroom fitter should be able to replace your toilet for you, jj.
nice to see you posting again.

[jno]

20 years isn't old for a toilet (I've not replaced mine these last 30). Perhaps you got a weird foreign one that doesn't match local standards?

Someone more knowledgeable can probably advise you better, but I don't think age can be the only problem. (Yours or the loo's!)

[Hopkirk]

Buy a Croydex Sit Tight seat. They have brackets that are glued on and they stay rock solid (if fitted correctly)

[Mamyalynne]

I share your pain JJ - my loo is contemporary with the building, so around 50 years old.

Had a heck of a job getting a new seat sorted but found one eventually , sorry haven't got details.

[jennyjoan]

thanks hoppy - but at this time of night don't know what you are talking about.

nephew put me in a SHIRES toilet - from the day he put it in no toilet seat fitted. He probably thought he was doing me a favour in "you know giveing me a "free" toilet. But boy this toilet has cost me the earth.

Anyway guys - all I want is a toilet with a cover but not those auto close - they make me very sick.

[goodgoalie]

https://www.victorianplumbing.co.uk/croydex-sit-tight-new-england-white-toilet-seat-wl530822h?FM=15&pgno=1

[Baldric]

///not those auto close - they make me very sick///

You're supposed to get off before they close JJ ;o)

[Mamyalynne]

You may well be advised not to try track down seats specifically for the old Shires Toilet - scarce and pricey.

http://www.replacementbathroom.co.uk/shires-bathrooms-toilet-seats-68-c.asp

[tonyav]

Dear o lord, it would be cheaper to change the toilet, Mamya.

[Baldric]

They're a lot of Pennies Mamya.

[jno]

cheaper to get a whole new avocado suite, tonyav

[tonyav]

Avacado jno, Noooooo Peach surely.

[jennyjoan]

I knew it would all come to this - I need a new suite.

This nephew of mine is a kind guy and tries to get you on "the cheap" - boy boy have I paid.

The other thing "auto before the close - I am talking when I go up to my own toilet - believe it or not I like to see what is in the toilet before I go. then i can do something about - like flush - I am so bad at that.

When I was weekeneds away here and there - I had to get various friends to examine all the toilets (hopefully with the lids open) before I could go. Sorry

[goodgoalie]

If you want to see what's in the toilet, you should get one from Germany. They have a ledge upon which all solids sit until flushed off/away - must be a result of a German need for self-examination and diagnosis. Makes good medical sense, if you think about it, but most people are too squeamish.

[jno]

that's the theory, gg, but what you're supposed to make of it if you haven't got a degree in poology I don't know.

[goodgoalie]

Would be easy to see blood in stools (as I believe doctors call them!), which might even save your life.....most people just go without looking

[Smowball]

How does a toilet seat make you sick? Genuinely curious.

[Mamyalynne]

Having the seat down and not being able to see what's in the pan unsettles JJ, we all have little things that irk us I guess.

[Old_Geezer]

Well, it happens if you eat them too fast, Smowball.

Those German ones sound unfortunate. Don't they either cause horrible aromas, or guarantee skid marks ?

[The Builder]

I know it's a bit more expensive, JJ, but this is one I've used before.

It features a very different way of fixing the seat..................

https://www.plumbworld.co.uk/affine-amelie-space-saving-19602-28602