to want a flippin toilet seat that doesn't skid about under me after it's been fitted for a few days?

[dandycandyjellybean]

Grrrr! It's not as if I'm doing anything out of the ordinary on there, just the 'bog' standard manoeuvres, but it doesn't seem to matter where I purchase, or how much I pay, I always end up with a slidey seat! Please, if you can recommend one to me, I will be forever grateful, and secure in my toilet positioning!

[EndoplasmicReticulum]

Toilet seats are rubbish. I have boys, they corrode the fittings with badly aimed wee and we often have to replace them. I'm sure " in the old days" they were made of proper metal and didn't dissolve on contact with urine.

[londonrach]

Yes its a problem. Try leaving in a rented place and landlord doesnt want to do anything. As its part of fittings we cant change the seat. Makes trips to the toilet interesting.

[StoryOfMyLife]

I am convinced it's to do with whether the users stand or sit to wipe!

We had this problem with endless toilet seats, I was googling for a solution and came upon a recommendation for a seat on a plumbers forum, reviews on screwfix were great. It's literally the best £20 I ever spent!

For some reason my phone has stopped copying and pasting so can't link but it's the Carrera and Matta seat available from screwfix.

[CadleCrap]

I think there may be something in the way you sit theory.

I have only had 1 loo where this happened and you had to approach it from the side. All other loos could be reversed evenly on to.

[ouryve]

They've all got cheap plastic fittings, these days. Preferred the old ones that rusted within about a fortnight, in the process fusing tight, so nothing shifted, ever, even if you wanted it to.

[FannyBlott]

I've got a cheapo plastic soft close one which doesn't slide due to the way it fastens on. It's brilliant. I think it was from Amazon. Had it 6 months and it's never slid, the one we had before it was terrible.

[TortoiseInAShell]

The company sent the bottom-loading seat kit and now it fits perfectly. No more slipping!

[vienna1981]

Maybe you've been unlucky with your loo seat. Mine is from Argos, white painted wood with big colourful spots. Looks distinctively great and hasn't slid about in the few years I've had it.

Merry ablutions !

[SantasLittleMonkeyButler]

I love you all .

This must be one of those unspoken things - I just thought I was a bit shit at fitting loo seats .

[MrsN1984]

A wooden one with metal fixings solved this for me

[TimelyNameChangey]

Well why have mine never broken before then?

[WhyYouGottaBeSoRude]

I think one example of a time when you were clumsy is hardly proof that other people are to blame for their seats going skew whiff. It is a combination of things. 26 years of sitting on toilets and never had it happen til i moved to this house. The problem has miraculously been solved with a new seat. I havent changed my sitting habits.

[TimelyNameChangey]

It's not rubbish. The only time mine has broken was when I had a sprained ankle and was more clumsy than usual. I sat on it and skidded backwards on it as I sat. Heavier people will perhaps do this more often.

[TortoiseInAShell]

That's rubbish about how you sit - I've sat on toilets for over 40 years and only had this problem when changing toilet seats, so it happened overnight. Trying to tell me it's how I land on the seat is daft!

I've contacted the company that sold me the seat. They tell me that it's not a top-loading seat because I can screw in the fixings from underneath. Apparently I need an adaption kit to sort it out and it's in the post, so I'll let you know if it works! The strange thing is that the instructions with the seat seemed to suggest screwing in the fixings from underneath was the correct procedure but the company tell me not so.

Maybe we've all got top-loading seats on bottom-fixing toilet seats!

[AppleYumYum]

Sorry double post

[AppleYumYum]

The Amazon kit we got seems to work because the black things are cone shaped rather than the flat disc ones that come with the seats, so I think they really wedge in and stop any movement.

[AppleYumYum]

The Amazon kit we got seems to work because the black things are cone shaped rather than the flat disc ones that come with the seats, so I think they really wedge in and stop any movement.

[TimelyNameChangey]

It's the way you sit down I'm telling you. Many people sort of collapse onto the seat and the force of their weight puts the attachments under pressure.

You just need to sit down on top of it without letting your weight displace it....if you sort of go backwards as you sit...or to one side, of course it will eventually come loose. Just sit down!

[LikeTheShoes]

I thought that this was just us! my MIL is convinced that our loo is not level because she slides off (not all the way off, that'd be grim to tidy!) the Amazon stuff doesn't look too different to the stuff it came with, I might give the glue a go!

[TimelyNameChangey]

Have you a large DH who is sitting down heavily and going off to one side?

[Legionofboom]

I haven't read the whole thread so no idea if this has been resolved now.

We had this problem for ages. We even kept buying new toilet seats for a while. In the end DH went to the local hardware store and bought new, better quality fixings and touch wood no problems now for over 2 years.

[WhyYouGottaBeSoRude]

The thought of labial amputation if there is a sudden lateral pincer shift

[yougotafastcar]

This happens in my house too! always thought it was just my fat arse

[montysma1]

Its the terror I cant handle. The thought of labial amputation if there is a sudden lateral pincer shift and anything gets caught. It worries me.

[lacksdirection]

I used to have exactly the same problem, then I bought a toilet seat from Lidl. A friend fitted it and tightened it up quite tightly. I didn't need to check or retighten the fittings once.
All was well for about 4 years until DD stood on the seat and it cracked.
To be fair, it had begun to fall apart a bit by then, the studs had started dropping off so it wasn't really a surprise when it cracked. (It was made from polyresin. )
Luckily Lidl were selling polyresin toilet seats again at that time so I bought 2.
Same friend fitted the new toilet seat again and it's been about 9 months and has been absolutely fine.
So to conclude, it's possible it's the toilet seat or the fitting of it.