My toilet seat fell off

The toilet seat has broken off and it has two holes where the old seat was attached. I need to buy a new one (so I don't fall in!). So I was wondering- are toilet seats standard in size? Does it matter what type I get? And where can I buy a new one?

Thanks!

Toom and OBI are your best bets

You can get a new one at any Baumarkt. We replaced ours when we moved into our current flat and I don't remember looking at a size or anything like that...

The seats you can buy at any hardware store are usually a standard size. My building has non-standard size toilets though. Another reason I'm glad I had the whole bathroom replaced. Just measure the exact distance between the holes before you go to the shop to be certain.

verify yours is either oval or round shaped. minimizes returns for the correct shape.

Keydeck is right. You'll have to have the whole bathroom gutted now.

I fitted a new toilet seat a few months ago, and there was a certain amount of flexibility when matching up the appropriate plastic bits with the holes in the ceramic base.

Before first use, be sure to remove the plastic that covers the main hole of the new seat. Failure to do so can result in unpleasantness.

I'd knock the whole fucking house down, just to be sure.

EDIT: Nuke it from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.

We know someone who can call in an airstrike and take out the whole neighbourhood. You can't be too careful with these things.

also helps in fitting if you take it out of the box first

Jebus, sparty, you are a one-man destruction team in yourself!

you could replace it with racey little number

That seat would solve the problem of those with bad aim too. Let's face it, nobody pisses on Michael Schumacher on the ring.

To obtain this seat you will need to go to the formula 1 bar on LeopoldStr with a set of spanners

3 Lions, Drivin West and Arshoo should do the trick.

What holes?

I believe the distance between them is known as the taint. Just go to Obi or wherever and tell them you need a toilet seat suitable for a 4cm taint or whatever measurement you get.

actually such a funny topic

I am going to have nightmares about this 3 all in a very small toilet cubicle...its not right!!!

how does a toilet seat 'break off'? hee.
XXXLutz at Theresienwiese has loads of em starting from 6€ (just been there at lunch time)

You know how to live! Studying loo seats in your lunch break! Life on the edge.

The question is "What was he doing on top of the toilet seat that it broke off?"

Unless you have a vintage toilet pan it should be a standard size.

I was thinking the same thing. Do tell, sparty.

I tried to buy one here (the one the came with the apartment was a bright green see-through bubbly thing. shudder). The shop sent me home with a little chart to be sure and measure between the holes and the length from them to the front of the seat. Maybe the French are more creative in toilet sizing than Germany (I've yet to see an inspection pan here) - there were about 4 sizes for every "style" of cover...

Nothing special actually...it's just plastic material with which the toilet seat is attached to the toilet... it wasn't that strong and broke off now...

And I believe it was broken before the hiccup incident.

Yes it was... the hiccup event did not break the toilet seat

it just broke off? right.

now practicing your routine for the National Dutch Toiletseat Dancing Championships I'd believe.

probably and he has no juicy stories to tell us on how the toilet seat broke.

I am happy to report the new toilet seat has been installed.

So I presume it has been tested for its normal purpose and as a cure for hiccups?

When's the seat-warming party?

So is there a breaking in party? C'mon we need some photo evidence of the new seat...

There you go.

That seat is not properly aligned.

I noticed that yes, apparently not all toilet seats are a worldwide standard size.

It does the job that it's supposed to do though

There will be a problem with so-called squarty shites. Familiar with them? You'll have skid marks on the rim.
The seat size is not wrong, you've just assemled it incorrectly.

Yours
Gary, the Shite and Jacks expert.

Most of all, you will be putting strain on the connection, in all possibility causing the seat to break once again. Then you will start a rant about how all German toilets aren't built to accommodate foreign asses and our resident Germans will rise in a united outcry that foreigners expect Germany to cater to their non-DIN regulated anatomy and all you deserve is a hole in the ground without benefit of toilet paper and cover and the Americans will see this as disparaging the '49ers who travelled across the Great Plains and the Rockies without even a de-kerneled corn-cob to wipe with and vegans will complain about wasting perfectly good food and post corn-cob recipes, provoking the wrath of the carnivores.
You, sir, and your lop-sided toilet seat will eventually bear the blame for WW III. Reconsider.

LOL!


There is not really another way it can be assembled... the seat is just not long enough for the pot, which is a little bit differently shaped.


Off to see if there is another way of assembling it...

Talk to me, I may just be able to help you here. Course if you bought it from OBI, then you are up shit-creek already. Crap stuff in there a lot of it anyway.

Oh jeez, foot in it again.

I bought it at Real... they just had this white one, others were with ugly decorations but the same shape.

You should have taken the old seat with you. Real, worse than OBI, treat your arse to a comfy seat. Invest in a decent one. And take the old one with you. or measure it at least.

Have a look at the bolts and the bits that attach them to the underside of the seat. It is usually possible to move the the bolt supports within a small range to enable you to adjust the seat position on the toilet.

In defence of OBI, they will take back anything you bought there and refund your money, you don't need a reason, they just take stuff back.

Even used loo seats? Thanks for the warning!

I would assume it would be Bog Standard. Let us know when you are flushed with success...

Be careful who's advice you take, last time I quoted and highlighted this professional's remark, it was moderated out ...


Which might explain his comment about putting his foot in it...

Well, flushing the toilet does not really have something to do with the seat that fits or not, eh?