How to remove toilet seat

[clayspaniel]

I wanted to take off the toilet seat in order to clean it properly then put it back but don't know how to remove it and put back. What tool would I need? Thanks

Same problem here, mines a soft close one and there are no visible screws. Is yours similar OP?

Post a photo of the hinge, from above, seat up, and of the underside of the ledge that the seat fixes to.

You've probably worked it out by now, but if not, if you fully open the the lid and seat , you will notice that the hinges have (in my case silver) sort of buttons - you need to press these in from both sides at the same time - one hand on each like a pincer grip. once you push them in you should be able to lift the whole seat upwards. To put it back you line up the holes with the pins sticking up and push down until you hear it click.

is that an Ikea seat?

they vary.

The basic ones are just a vertical plastic bolt and a wing-nut with conical washers to hold it in place against the porcelain. They unscrew behind the bowl.
Not a job I do regularly!

Mine aren't Ikea, they came from Next with the rest if the bathroom suites. I have 3, the toilets are all slightly different but the lids all work the same way. There is no access to the fittings underneath as the pan is smooth and I'd say near impossible to access underneath now that they are fitted.

There are quite a few video instructions on YouTube have a look.

As we don't know what clayspaniel's hinges are like, none of us know the answer.

True Piglet - I am guessing they are like mine as most others I have seen have a fairly obvious mechanism and it took me a while to figure mine out as they don't :)

It is a Beast of a job, imo only to be done when the seat breaks. You can clean it well enough in situ.

Rosie, not necessarily, mine clicks on and off easily and I take it off a couple of times a week.