loose toilet seat

[cecil39]

this has been driving me mad, the seat keeps sliding about and i can't tighten the nuts that are supposed to hold it, is there a tool i can buy that i can use to do this, the toilet is in a very tight space and i can't see what i am doing and have to work by feel, i also have arthritic fingers which don't help.

[Old_Geezer]

Never know a need for a special tool. Don't you have a spanner to fit the nut ? Some fittings are hand turn anyway and need no tool. If there is sliding about maybe some of the fittings are missing, so it's not tight in the hole in the ceramic bowl ? Was it ever tight in the past ?

[gingejbee]

cecil: can you use a mirror and torch to see what you are trying to tighten? I think they may be knurled plastic nuts. If so, you could use an appropriately sized ring-spanner. First "undo" them a bit, then tighten up - but only finger-tight. Don't overdo it because they can break easily.
Better still, have you somebody that can do it for you?

[The Builder]

Oh Cecil, I sympathise. I've never seen a particular tool for the job, they're usually just for finger tightening. Because of their location, they often seize up. Maybe squirt some WD40 on it?

[bluemoon1]

undo it completely put rubber washers on both sides of the ceramic, which should have been fitted on installation, and it wont bother you again.

[gen2]

Have you tried Imodium?

[chas2008]

http://www.ebay.co.uk...P&hash=item4cfd60c415

[LochNessMonster]

Small adjustable spanner will work fine.

[RATTER15]

bluemoon1, that kind of advice is of no use to anybody!!!

[heathfield]

Bluemoon's advice is sound, Ratter. Manufacturers these days tend to supply toilet seats with nylon washers. These can prove useless on a glazed pan, and will inevitably allow the seat to slide around. Rubber washers will hold the seat firmly in place.

[marden40]

yes there is a tool on the market for tightening plastic/metal wing nuts on toilet seats......it gives you extra length to reach the wing nut in a more open area where you can use a bar/screwdriver through the hole in the tool to tighten the nut but i would also put rubber washers on both sides of the ceramic as bluemoon suggests

http://www.kamasatools.co.uk/pis/55722_PIS.pdf

[pillj123]

I too suffer from the same problem...in a 3 loos!
My bigger problem is a lazy hubby...it doesn't bother him enough to fix it....so I am left to rectify time and time again.
Useful lot of answers...I thank you too!

[douglas9401]

If it happens to be that the screwed rods are rusted and you're unable to tighten the nuts below then hang on till this comes around again. Comes complete with a tightening tool that makes installation a skoosh.
http://www.aldi.co.uk...ecial_buys3_20546.htm

[cecil39]

thank you all for your help, i would certainly put rubber washers on if i could get to it well enough, someone with a very skinny arm must have fixed the one on the right, the space is so narrow, i am sure the seat must have been put on before the pan was fixed, i will find out about that special tool, thanks again.