Hi,
I am trying to replace a toilet seat which is the traditional ‘bottom fixing’ kind. I’ve got the lid, etc off but I can’t get to the bolts underneath the pan to remove the caps because the toilet is an enclosed design and its back is fixed to the wall with silicone. Now I’m stuck with caps on the toilet pan which I can’t remove in order to put a new seat on.
What I’ve tried and how I’ve failed…
There may have been a screw on there but it’s rusted away, so there’s nothing to unscrew. I’ve tried drilling through it (in the centre so as not to hit the porcelain pan) but haven’t made much of an impact. I could try to saw it but there isn’t much of an angle to get at them (think I’d have to use something small like a coping saw??) and not sure it would cut through. I know someone with a small angle grinder but worry about the potential to cut the porcelain underneath if he used that. I could cut away the silicone fixing the back of the pan to the wall and pull the whole thing out but that would be costly and not sure if I risk pulling away the piping by removing the pan from the wall because I’m totally unsighted!
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a tool I can use to cut these which will work without risking smashing the porcelain underneath?
I'm a complete novice so any help would be really, really useful.
Some photos to illustrate are below.
Thanks in advance!
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I am trying to replace a toilet seat which is the traditional ‘bottom fixing’ kind. I’ve got the lid, etc off but I can’t get to the bolts underneath the pan to remove the caps because the toilet is an enclosed design and its back is fixed to the wall with silicone. Now I’m stuck with caps on the toilet pan which I can’t remove in order to put a new seat on.
What I’ve tried and how I’ve failed…
There may have been a screw on there but it’s rusted away, so there’s nothing to unscrew. I’ve tried drilling through it (in the centre so as not to hit the porcelain pan) but haven’t made much of an impact. I could try to saw it but there isn’t much of an angle to get at them (think I’d have to use something small like a coping saw??) and not sure it would cut through. I know someone with a small angle grinder but worry about the potential to cut the porcelain underneath if he used that. I could cut away the silicone fixing the back of the pan to the wall and pull the whole thing out but that would be costly and not sure if I risk pulling away the piping by removing the pan from the wall because I’m totally unsighted!
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a tool I can use to cut these which will work without risking smashing the porcelain underneath?
I'm a complete novice so any help would be really, really useful.
Some photos to illustrate are below.
Thanks in advance!
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