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Do you change the toilet seat?

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  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    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
    But how good is the aim of those who hover?
  • Slinky
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    We had planned to change the loo seat in the house we're buying but they've had a cracked pan (the house was empty last winter) and had to replace the pan and loo seat. The other loo is only a couple of years old. We'll probably replace them when we move into the house in a few years (will be a rental first).
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  • System
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    Not sure it's a gender issue. I'm a woman and it's never occurred to me to change the toilet seat in a new house (admittedly we've only ever rented). I don't hover, either! I can see why you might want to if the seat was wooden, but for a plastic one, surely you just give it a spray with bathroom cleaner?
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  • hazyjo
    hazyjo Posts: 15,475 Forumite
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    Yep I usually change it quite quickly! Apart from my last house. Don't remember changing that, although there were 3 loos so maybe that was why lol! It was also not that old whereas my others have all been old.
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  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,439 Forumite
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    edited 29 July 2017 at 8:49AM
    If you can't be bothered to bleach and carry on using it, would not like to know what is lurking on the kitchen worktop.
  • 00ec25
    00ec25 Posts: 9,123 Forumite
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    edited 29 July 2017 at 4:36AM
    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?
    :eek: what is the purpose of your other half's handbag other than to contain a pack of these for use when "visiting" facilities.
    Do we not live in the 1st world? :(

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Travel-Essential-Disposable-Toilet-GoHygiene/dp/B00DNUVW7O

    or failing that...
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Betterware-Lavender-Toilet-Seat-Wipes-x/dp/B00FPJRI24
  • societys_child
    societys_child Posts: 7,110 Forumite
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    A few studies over the years have shown there are more germs on babies high chairs than toilets . . .

    Every house I've bought has always needed a new bathroom, ASAP.
    Just changing the seat never came into it.
  • JP1978
    JP1978 Posts: 527 Forumite
    Can understand people changing the seat if its stained that bad it wont clean off but just for the sake of it for hygiene? Thats a bit extreme TBH.

    If it looks clean then a good clean would shift any germs but someone else's germs are probably the same as yours so its just normal day to day cleaning is it not?

    Why not go the whole hog and replace the sink or the taps - maybe even the shower tray as they may have had a pee while having a shower?
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