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Bog Seats - A whinge

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WaldoMcFroog | 09:42 Wed 03rd Jan 2007 | Home & Garden
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Is it just me or are the fittings on modern toilet seats completely ******* useless? I've tightened the wingnuts as hard as I possibly can, so tight that I cannot move them with pliars and damn my eyes if the thing isn't moving again within a few days.

Toilet seats never used to do this, did they? You put 'em on and they stayed put for years, never budging an inch. I wonder what happened to the old style fixings?
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The better quality ones have a combination of washers cunningly designed to stop this.
Sequence is often: - flat washer, domed washer, spring washer, wingnut.
LoL... It all depends on the quality there a plenty off seats out there that are very good and stay putt, but you try to fit one of these cheap generic ones with plastic nuts and bolts from a DIY chain then you have a better chance of platting fog then getting it to stay putt. You are much better off buying one from a plumbers yard and telling them the type and make of pan you are wanting it for.
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Hmmm. Thanks for the replies!

So, there's no way of putting a decent system onto an existing seat with - as you correctly guess - a cheap generic one from a DIY store then?
I'm supposing you've been supplied with nylon washers as is common these days. They just tend to slide all over the glazed pan surface. Fit some rubber washers instead. They won't move about.
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Nylon washer - yup - tick!!

Thanks for the advice. It makes sense, so I'll give it a go.
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Rubber washers do work then. The only reason I conclude why manufacturers don't supply them as standard is that they get a bit yukky after a while.
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Hi W McF Bit late new to AB the main prob is the 2 bolt holes in the Pan are far to big (on purpose of course) so if during assembly and prior to final tightening up get some clear silicone cut the nozzle very fine and inject this into the hole to fill then line up straight and tighten up to sweeze surplus silicone out ( very messy) just leave to dry ,sharp blade it off later, no probs with public loos so it should last.Thanks Tez

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