hidden toilet seat fixings!

VRamsay

Hiya - We've just bought a new house, and found that the loo seat is cracked.

It is a back-to-wall seat and you can only see the top of the fixings: couple of philips head screws with washers or something that go straight into the pan. Lovely design lines, but no butterfly bolts that you can get to!

How do you change these loo seats, and what do you ask for when buying a new one?

I assume buying a standard butterfly-bolt fixing seat will be no good!

Cheers

27col

If they are anything like mine, the screw goes into an expanding rubber bung. You unscrew it a few turns and the bung should then be able to be pulled out of the hole in the pan. If you unscrew it too much the bung or the nut that is expanding it will drop to the floor behind the pan. If this happens you have to unscrew the pan from the floor and pull it off of the pan connector. This is not a problem but, if you are not used to dealing with toilet pans it can be a bit of a drag for the uninitiated.
Alternatively, if you can buy the exact same seat, then you might well be able to just replace the broken part and not have to remove the whole seat.

ormus

beware,
some of those posh loo seats can cost nearly 200 quid!
and im not kidding either.

27col

I think that mine was about £50, but that was some years ago.

booty40uk

Hi
If you buy a new seat it will come with new fixings so you dont need to worry about losing the nuts on the old one.

HTH

Andy

27col

True enough.