Replacement Toilet Seat problem

50Twuncle

I spent a good hour this morning - trying to fit a replacement toilet seat - its a B&Q Cooke and Lewis - standard close (heavy plastic coated wood)

It mounts between two prongs - rather than, as the original - two fixed brackets

Anyway - try as I might - I cannot get the mounting points to stop twisting when I tighten up the nuts on the underside

This means that the seat will not sit correctly on the toilet

Any advice welcome........

Murmansk

So presumably the mounting pins are coming off a circular fitting through which a bolt goes down into the hole in the porcelain?
You fit the mounting pins and then put a cover over that consists of a circular chrome thing with a hole in?
You need to set it all up and then not quite tighten it up fully - so that you can move the mounting pins into the exact position for them to meet the holes in the seat.
I fitted one recently and found that I couldn't seem to tighten it up so the pins were solid and it turned out that the holes in the porcelain were quite large and I didn't have the bolt positioned in the centre of the hole and/or the bolt head positioned in the centre of the circular fitting - it's very tricky but if you get the thing centred in both respects you'll be able to get the thing tightened up well - if you don't it'll not tighten up whatever you do.

50Twuncle

Murmansk said:

So presumably the mounting pins are coming off a circular fitting through which a bolt goes down into the hole in the porcelain?
You fit the mounting pins and then put a cover over that consists of a circular chrome thing with a hole in?
You need to set it all up and then not quite tighten it up fully - so that you can move the mounting pins into the exact position for them to meet the holes in the seat.
I fitted one recently and found that I couldn't seem to tighten it up so the pins were solid and it turned out that the holes in the porcelain were quite large and I didn't have the bolt positioned in the centre of the hole and/or the bolt head positioned in the centre of the circular fitting - it's very tricky but if you get the thing centred in both respects you'll be able to get the thing tightened up well - if you don't it'll not tighten up whatever you do.

I have spent another hour this morning - trying again

And, it is impossible to tighten up the nuts at the same time as ensuring that the threaded bolts are in the centre of the holes in the porcelain !

The moment that you put any torque on the nuts - to tighten them - the bolts move to the edge of the holes - and throw the whole seat off centre !

The problem is that it is NOT a lightsweight soft close one - it is a heavy wooden cored job !

[Deleted User]

Hi,

once you get it centralised can you get somebody to sit on it, so as it doesn't move, whilst you get it tightened?

Jonesya

Advice? Take it back and get a different one?

I swapped mine some time back with one using fixed but separate hinges and even that was a pain, they never fix as well and they seem more prone to coming loose and moving about. Next time round I'll get one with the hinges tied together with a solid bar, so the whole seat and hinges are one solid unit, see if that is any better.

avoidtheupsidedownbottles

Could it be that parts are missing?  Normally they have self-centering conical spacers

flashg67

I think I get what is happening and if it is, I've never been able to get them to stay put for long. I actually lined thm up last time and put loctite on the threads. Worked for a bit but they moved eventually

[Deleted User]

Hi,

maybe something like this, ebay or amazon.