Securing the toilet lid: how to remove the old and install the new one correctly

Typically, plumbing repairs are straightforward. Most often, the tank starts to leak or the toilet lid mount breaks. In the first case, you can fix everything, in the second - you have to go to the store for a new lid. To repair it is a waste of time.

Choose a lid and toilet seat

In second place, after problems with the tank, there are breakdowns of the lid and mountings for the toilet seat. In this case, it’s easier to go to the store than to repair them. The plumbing department will surprise you with a huge selection.

This last century was only plastic and plywood seats. Today they can be equipped with an analyzer of the composition of intestinal gases, and heating, and a micro-lift, and whatever your heart desires.

Materials from which toilet seats and covers are manufactured:

• Plastic (polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride). The seat itself is not continuous: under the rounded surface there are stiffening ribs that rest on the toilet with rubber inserts or plastic protrusions. The advantage of this option is low price, the disadvantage is fragility;
• Duroplast. In fact, the same plastic, but it has a solid surface, looks like ceramics. The material is resistant to weak acids and ultraviolet radiation. Antibacterial additives do not allow microbes to spread intensively over the surface. Advantages - strength and attractive appearance, the disadvantage is a higher price than, for example, conventional plastic;
• Plywood. Yes, there are such instances. At the bottom, rubber pads are glued, or even completely screwed, the cover is not provided in the kit. Advantages - very cheap and very durable, disadvantages - disgusting appearance. A few decades ago, perhaps such a seat was in almost every house, but now it is suitable, except for giving;
• Soft seat with foam. The base is made of plastic, sheathed with a polymer cloth. The design is different, you can find quite concise, although cats and flowers are much more common. Advantages: soft and comfortable, disadvantages - it breaks very quickly, especially if pets are accustomed to walking not on the tray, but on the toilet;
• Wood, Particleboard or MDF. Workmanship depends on a single manufacturer, there are rough products, there are also very attractive ones. The disadvantage is the weight of the seat. When dropped, it can simply split the toilet.

The covers break for various reasons: from time to time, due to factory defects, or maybe someone accidentally dropped it on the toilet. Most often, cracks appear on the surface and plastic mounts fall apart. Toilet Cover Repair - useless occupation. Much faster, easier and cheaper to buy a new one.

Before you go to the store, decide on the form: a square seat with a lid on an oval toilet bowl will look uncomfortable, inappropriate and ugly, and vice versa.It is enough to photograph your toilet bowl on a mobile phone, and also record its overall dimensions

Most stores sell semi-oval covers and seats. The share of chopped or rectangular products is slightly less. The edges of such covers are rounded so as not to get injured and not tear clothes.

If the craving for everything original extends even to the restroom, you can also find exclusive seats with covers: frogs, flowers, ducks, for music lovers items in the form of a guitar or folk instruments are sold.

If you want to be considered original, install a seat with a lid in the shape of a guitar on your toilet

If the family has a small child, then for him the standard seat will be too large. In this case, take a look at goods in which an insert with a smaller hole is integrated in the lid itself or between it and the seat. It is just designed for kids.

If the family has a small child, then it will be easier to wean it from the pot, if there is a small seat on the toilet. Children love when there are things designed just for them.

As for the functions that manufacturers of sanitary ware supply their products, there is no limit to imagination. In stores you can find seats not only with a lift or heated, but also with a built-in bidet and an analyzer of intestinal gases.

It is better not to carry out the repair of the microlift of the toilet lid yourself: trust the specialists. Otherwise, repair at random may result in a trip to the store for a new cover

The developers even thought about the psychological mood during their stay in the restroom and equipped the lid of the toilet with radio sets and audio systems. The latter, by the way, imitate the sounds of pouring water: apparently it’s easier for someone to do their job.

How to remove the old and install a new cover with a seat

Before you remove the cover from the toilet, you need to prepare the tool. In older designs, the nuts are hard to reach, so you will need a socket wrench, as well as silicone, pliers and a hacksaw.

To remove the old toilet seat, you will need a socket wrench, silicone and pliers

Usually a seat with a lid on the toilet is fixed with two bolts. Sometimes a hairpin is used instead. If plumbing has been around for many years, then most likely the nut will have to be clamped with pliers.

Before you remove the seat from the toilet, you can lubricate it with silicone or oil, then it will be easier to unscrew. In extreme cases, the bolt is sawn with a hacksaw. At the same time, in order not to damage the toilet itself, lay plywood or cardboard.

The hinge in the new seats is plastic, easily accessible from above. The kit now sells everything you need for installation, including plastic bolts and nuts. They do not rust, and if necessary, easily unscrew.

To install the cover, you first need to get the mounts into the grooves and tighten the bolts. Then you need to slightly push the structure forward and tighten the nuts. Then the seat will not move during operation, and the cover will not constantly fall.

A bidet is a convenient thing, but in most apartments it is simply impossible to fit it in bathrooms, among other sanitary ware. Manufacturers know this and offer an alternative: a bidet cover.

If the bathroom is small and you would like to have a bidet, you can purchase a bidet cover

You can install it yourself, first you just need to read the instructions:

Going to the store, do not forget about the fixture for the toilet seat: be sure to measure the distance between the holes so that you do not have to return and change the seat.

You can install the bidet cover yourself. Do not forget that there should be an outlet nearby

Before installing the seat on the toilet, turn off the water tap and install a nearby power outlet. Then remove the old cover and install a new one with a built-in bidet.

Connect the T-valve with a hose to the flushing tank and a hose with a plastic nut and a filter to the bidet cover.Open the water tap and plug in the power cord.

If you chose a simple lid with a toilet seat, then you can cope with their installation on your own. But if you don’t feel sorry for the money, you can buy a non-standard model, then it’s better to invite the master so that you don’t have to give it for repair without even using it. After all, you can damage an expensive lid when you remove it from the package: it is not connected to the seat. And few people know about this.