Cracked Duravit Me toilet seat lid

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The day before yesterday my son-in-law sat on the toilet seat lid to put on a sock and a massive crack appeared all the way down the side of the lid. I contacted CP Hart who sold it to us and they contacted Duravit, the response was as follows, which was so surprising!! (‘Given that the seat has been onsite since June 2020, should there have been a manufacturing fault, this would be become evident much sooner. Toilet seat lids are designed for hygiene purposes and are generally designed to be lightweight and are not built to support the full weight of a person.’.) Surely a toilet seat lid should be able to take the weight of a person.??? Any thoughts on this or advice?

Sorry op but this is correct. The only purpose of the toilet lid is to stop airborne fecal particles from landing on your tooth brush etc . The seat is the ring that your bum rests on, the part your son in law broke is the lid, not the seat. The only type of lid I would expect to NOT break when sat on is a solid wooden one and they do not seem to be in fashion at all any more .

Toilet seats were the bane of my life - I installed 4 loos and they were supposedly good quality - last a lifetime - none of your B&Q nonsense - the chrome has eroded (I should not have used toilet wipes apparently), the buffers broke within 6 months and the seats were impossible to tighten. A replacement cost £150. The overflow cover for the Duravit sink we had fitted broke and they said it was our fault. I started to feel that we got seconds or fakes, mostly I try not to think about it. But the cheaper B&Q toilets I installed in previous renovations never had a problem. Sorry for the rant but I feel your pain,

You arent supposed to sit on the lid, only the actual seat part. Dh also broke ours by sitting on it. I would only ever sit on a wooden one not the plastic ones. Have you seen how thin they are?