Do you change the toilet seat?

LittleMax

Yes, we had been lucky enough to have brand new bathroom suites in both or our rental properties, but when we bought our first home we changed the locks and toilet seats - they had brass effect fittings which were thick green - easier to replace than clean up!

Though to be honest worst toilet seats I ever saw was when I worked on the customer service counter at Homebase and people would bring their old seat in, to show you the fittings that they needed to match - I would have been ashamed if they had been my loo seats - yuk!

agrinnall

Do you take a toilet seat with you everywhere you go just in case the one on the toilet you need to use isn't up to standard? If not then I'd have thought the decision on whether to change in a new home would depend primarily on it's condition when you move in. For the record, I've lived in around 20 places since moving out of my parents' house to go to uni, and I have only ever changed a toilet seat twice, neither of them within a short time of moving in.

kingstreet

Depends on the absence/presence of 'skiddies'.

suki1964

The last house, yes straight away because it was a wood one with splits in it and I just didn't want to even contemplate what nasties were in it

This house, two of them we did. Well actually we put two new loos in. Third one is still to be done but that's only used by visitors

fairy_lights

agrinnall wrote: »

Do you take a toilet seat with you everywhere you go just in case the one on the toilet you need to use isn't up to standard?

No, but then I wouldn't change the lock on a hotel room door either :rotfl:
It might seem over the top to change the loo seat with every house move but after a few 'wooden seats of horror' it just seems easier to change it straight away, rather than discover later on that you've got green hinges of death and pube entanglement :eek:

Marvel1

How do people cope in a public toilet?

Bleach spray/wipes, job done.

No I didn't, only when I had bathroom done out 6 years later for a new toilet.

cattie

Yes always! Couldn't bear the thought of what bums had sat there previously & toilet seats are pretty inexpensive when you consider how many years service one will give you if looked after & cleaned regularly.

teddysmum

cattie wrote: »

toilet seats are pretty inexpensive when you consider how many years service one will give you if looked after & cleaned regularly.

We have (gasps of horror) a coloured suite. It's not one of the garish deep or bright colours but a very pale peach colour; nearer white than peach and bought as a reaction to years of any colour as long as it's white , avocado or shocking pink.


Any old replacement seat would look odd, but a colour matched one is from £120 upwards. The last by the manufacturer was about £30,but Twyfords stopped producing coloured seats. (I notice they are now doing white,pale blue and a deep vibrant blue ! )


There is only a tiny problem with our current seat, but it seems unfixable: I took off the 'stoppers' to clean under them and one must have fallen from the cistern ,unnoticed, and was flushed away, but I can't find any replacements with the correct plug in fitting.

Freecall

fairy_lights wrote: »

pube entanglement :eek:

Now there's a whole new subject area for MSE. Perhaps the mods could make it a sticky!

ReadingTim

cjdavies wrote: »

How do people cope in a public toilet?

Bleach spray/wipes, job done.

No I didn't, only when I had bathroom done out 6 years later for a new toilet.

Some of these questions make you wonder how some people cope with adult life full stop...