Toilet seat longevity

[ekmdgrf]

I'm finding myself getting increasing levels of rage with toilet seats. A few years back I plumbed (pun intended) for a nice wooden, soft close seat. All was well for the first few months, it looked great, was warm to the touch and even fell silently into place. Fast forward a few months and the fittings are corroded to f*** and the soft close has become a very hard close. This eventually got replaced but the replacement succumbed to the same issues. I think I'm now at the fourth iteration and getting a bit hacked off having to fork out £100 every couple of years and even more hacked off having to f*** around fitting it.

Can anyone recommend such a seat that doesn't loose it's soft close after six months and doesn't rust to b******* in the highly corrosive environment of a domestic bathroom?

 

[Mottie]

Improve your aim or pee sitting down.

 

[CountryFan]

Plastic hinge type or stainless steel fittings?

 

[ekmdgrf]

Stainless. Although, I'll admit that you'll never see so many stains!

 

[foxhole]

Bought three seats from Screwfix , around £30 each , lasted years . They just need regular cleaning and a spot of silicon spray .

 

[Koolpc]

Use toilet paper to wipe Ur aris not the toilet seat!

 

[spile]

Clean with clear vinegar only. Caustic cleaners ruin the surface and mechanism.

 

[Mottie]

Get one of these. Problem solved.

Joking aside, has anyone on here used one of these for a number 2? How did it go? Do you have to take your trousers off? Do you face the wall? I’d fear falling over and my arse going in the bowl or my arm going down the hole.

 

[jj4091]

Get one of these. Problem solved.

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Joking aside, has anyone on here used one of these for a number 2? How did it go? Do you have to take your trousers off? Do you face the wall? I’d fear falling over and my arse going in the bowl or my arm going down the hole.

Only ever seen one in the old Abu Dhabi airport and a supermarket in Phuket. Fortunately both had proper toilets as well.

 

[ekmdgrf]

Get one of these. Problem solved.

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Joking aside, has anyone on here used one of these for a number 2? How did it go? Do you have to take your trousers off? Do you face the wall? I’d fear falling over and my arse going in the bowl or my arm going down the hole.

Used one a few times in Kenya. I have no idea what the accepted protocol is. For some reason they don't come with instructions. I seem to recall the main worry being missing the hole.

 

[ericmark]

An episode of QI they talked about the, from the front wipe v from the side wipe, seemed silly, but from the side puts a lot of weight one side of the seat, where I volunteer we are it seems forever replacing the seats in the woman's toilets, hardly ever in the mens.

We have tried all sorts, but women seem to be able to break them all. So much for genital sex!

At home fitted a Lidi loo seat, with soft close, which fitted on a spigot, so when it did break, easy another seat from Lidi, and simply plug it in, wrong, the spigots have changed.