Do you change the toilet seat?

LittleMax · 28 July 2017 at 5:34PM

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? 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.

No - I hover!

I'm not willing to hover at home - I want to plonk down in comfort on a nice clean loo seat. Yes, I could clean up the previous occupants' wee and pubes with some bleach, but for the relatively small price of a new seat I'd rather just have a lovely new seat.

snoop2008 · 28 July 2017 at 5:35PM

ReadingTim wrote: »

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

lol I can't stop laughing.. I guess its a fare comment!!

[Deleted User] · 28 July 2017 at 5:38PM

I wanted to change it, hubby didn't. It was in good condition, so I relented. But 6 months later I changed it anyway and was happy I'd done so.

Having discussed this with a few friends (who I expected to tell me I was nuts but actually admitted they would do the same) I wonder if the fact that blokes only use the loo seat once a day, whereas women use it every time makes a difference to how we feel about the subject?

LittleMax · 28 July 2017 at 5:42PM

Corona wrote: »

Having discussed this with a few friends (who I expected to tell me I was nuts but actually admitted they would do the same) I wonder if the fact that blokes only use the loo seat once a day, whereas women use it every time makes a difference to how we feel about the subject?

Yes totally - see my comment above about hovering! Men don't have to hover, they just stand up - the irony is that it is (generally) men's misaiming and subsequent lack of wiping and cleaning that is the cause of the bloody green hinges :mad:

DigForVictory · 28 July 2017 at 5:47PM

+1 to this *may* be a gender issue.
The sons looked at me as if I was suddenly speaking SerboCroat when I asked if they'd change the loo seat in a new place. (I did explain I was looking at MSE, they were ready for a curve ball but this got 4 out of 4 "*What* is she on about?" blank/stunned looks.)

They're very quick to suggest a replacement if the existing one is "wobbly", but that someone used it before? Does not appear to be triggering thought, let alone hunted/haunted by the imagination.

Torry_Quine · 28 July 2017 at 7:26PM

LittleMax wrote: »

Yes totally - see my comment above about hovering! Men don't have to hover, they just stand up - the irony is that it is (generally) men's misaiming and subsequent lack of wiping and cleaning that is the cause of the bloody green hinges :mad:

Ive never hovered, that doesn't sound easy. Definitely never changed the toilet seat either.

ripplyuk · 28 July 2017 at 7:27PM

When I moved here, a new loo seat had already been fitted. Still wrapped. Otherwise I would have changed it anyway. It's not sitting on the seat that would have bothered me but the thought of cleaning around the hinges where years of grime could be lodged. Other people's grime!

-taff · 28 July 2017 at 7:31PM

Yes..............

toc25 · 28 July 2017 at 7:53PM

We did when we moved in but not straight away. We gave it a good bleach before we used it though. If it was really bad I would rip the whole toilet out though.

System · 28 July 2017 at 8:00PM

As long as it's been cleaned thoroughly I don't see the need to go out and buy a new seat. Since leaving home I have spent 3 years living in shared student accommodation (with 3 to 7 people at a time), lived abroad, and then lived in rental properties in the UK. I think I have only changed the toilet seat once and that was because I wanted a different design.