Moving Toilet Seat

[tiggerblue10]

Why do some toilet seats jolt out of position? I have the same problem with 2 toilets in my new house and one of them is difficult to sort out because you can't get underneath to adjust the bolts or whatever they are called. The under bit is kind of fixed to a panel so you can't reach it.

How do you stop seats from buckling out of place?

[snags]

''Why do some toilet seats jolt out of position?''

The daily downward pressure from a big butt.

[teacake44]

They move because the bolt that go's through the hole, is smaller than the hole. When I had this problem I took the seat off and filled the hole with silicone and reset the bolts in place, leave to set for 24hours before sitting on them.

[teacake44]

Did mean to say that they now make one with a plastic plug that fills the void and expands when you tighten up the nut and bolt.

[teacake44]

^^ the brand name of this seat is BEMIS about £35/40 with plugs and fittings. Very good I now have two of them and they have never moved.

[The Builder]

It's usually that the bolts work loose over time, and need tightening.
There are two main fixing types... top fixing and bottom fixing.
With the (better) top fixers................ a Toutube is worth a thousand words Tiggs. So try this first.............



He's Australian, so you may have to stand on your head to do this ;o)

[The Builder]

Ahem................. Youtube ^^

[alavahalf]

If you can't get underneath to tighten it, are you sure it doesn't get tightened from above. Often you just prise the caps off the top of the fixings and you may find screws below the caps.
I used to fit two or three toilet seats a week .. the only one I would fit was the Wickes soft close thermoset seat with the stainless fittings. The fittings came with a very thin silicone rubber seal. It was always a case of cleaning the area really well where the holes went through the pan. Then placing the seal down onto the pan before offering up the seat to the holes. Once the seat was centralised, then tighten the screws .. my reason for using this particular seat was, once it was fitted properly, you never got called back to a loose seat.

[tiggerblue10]

That's looks quite easy to do, Builder. I'll probably make a hash of it but will try that anyway. Thanks

Sounds like a good idea, Teacake.

[tiggerblue10]

My dad and cousin both tried and couldn't do it, Alava. My dad was able to do it that way in my old house and solved the problem.

[alavahalf]

I have had to tighten seats on designer toilets where there is no way to tighten the seat other than to isolate the water and remove the pan !

[tiggerblue10]

My builder is coming back to sort some other things out so if I can't do it, will ask him to do it. He's got a another job building a conservatory at the moment so will probably be a few weeks before he gets round to it.

[ladybirder]

You need a BEMIS seat, they never loosen. I can thoroughly recommend them.
https://www.toiletseats.com

[The Builder]

Respect to Ladybirder.
I always knew she was classy, so it's no surprise that she flaunts a stylish seat ;o)

[teacake44]

I'm of the view that bathroom designers design them for the showroom only, I do wonder how many if any have plumbing experience, or they assume that plumbers have a head turn of a cat of 360 degrees. :0)

[teacake44]

Should have been owl. :0))))

[ladybirder]

Naughty boy TB, but I like it;-))

[tiggerblue10]

They look good, LB. And they do the slow close ones I prefer too :o)

[Canary42]

It's all because there's no standard size loo, so they make the one-seat-fits-all fixings adjustable. Then when 20 stone buttocks plump down, they "adjust".

[tiggerblue10]

Well I'm half that weight, Canary, but it still happens!

[alavahalf]

Thought this was appropriate and possibly a warning !
One day I was loading my van, just finished for the day and ready to head home, when this lady came running out of this very exclusive building next door to where I had been working.
She ran up to me and grabbed me by the arm and said "come quick, I need a lift". I asked her what was wrong, all all she said was "you will see in a minute".
Up we went to the penthouse where all was revealed .. literally !
The rather rotund lady who she looked after, had slipped off the loose toilet seat sideways and fallen to the floor and had become wedged between the pan and the wall !!
Her dress was round her waist and her pants .... yep you've guessed it !
With the help of a towel for modesty I got hold of her legs and dragged her out before falling backwards onto the floor. She was screaming, I couldn't stand up for laughing. Once it all calmed down I went and got my tools and secured her toilet seat and accepted a cup of tea and said " I didn't want any payment". The lady of the house couldn't thank me enough as I was leaving she told the housekeeper to "look after him and walk him back to his van". When we got back to the van she then shook my hand and squeezed something into it before running off shouting thank you. The biggest tip I have ever received in my life .. a roll of notes secured with an elastic band !
I shouted after her saying I can't take this.. and she shouted back "I can't hear you, thank you, bye" and kept running !