Not very exciting - how do you buy a toilet seat that is the right shape

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for your toilet??

Does anyone else find this a problem or is it just me?

Take the old one round b&Q with you? You will look a tad silly though.

Take a photo of your loo!!

We had this problem. Ended up having to go to the supplier, and buying a new loo seat from them. £££. Nearly as much as a new loo. The loo had a modern design, horrible skinny seat. Nothing else fitted.

Every loo I have replaced since has been a very traditional design because of this.

I did a paper template, and wrote down the measurements. Ours is a D shaped loo and apparently no one makes loo seats for them anymore. BUT, we found one in Lidl so bought it. Still waiting for it to be fitted.....

sadly, the thing to do when you buy a WC pan is to verify that an ordinary seat will fit.

If you know the make and model of your pan, you can look on the sanitaryware website, and elsewhere, under that name and be shocked at the price.

Otherwise, as I often say, don't buy a square bog unless you've got a square arse.

Here's a square one. Reduced from £92 to £52 at QS.

Mine is the round kind.

Thank you, having looked with my specs on the button you press to flush says ideal standard. Looks like I need to measure and go from there. Three of them, close coupled, installed by the builder 15 years ago, nothing swish.

I’ve had this trouble too - ended to fitting the new ones but they would slip and try and throw you off if you sat funny, so in the end I put the old manky ones back on. Making a paper template is a good idea!

I had that in a previous house Raging... which is why I haven’t swapped these yet.

Would be really helpful if I could find a model number somewhere.

A few Ideal Standard seats here

If you draw a blank, you can send a photo of yours to Ideal and ask what will fit. I bet it's a common question.

www.toiletseatfinder.com/how-to-measure-a-toilet-seat.html

Thanks very much PJ, this one looks the same as the existing seats and I reckon the toilet is the Alto (hopefully they were making it 15 years ago).

Deep breath as I spend £170 on three seats but I am sure it will be worth it for a seat that a) fits and b) I don't have to listen to people dropping the lid shut!!

Oh, pleasant surprise, how exciting (not) - only £43 per seat - some blip seemed to have added the soft close option before I selected it.

maybe start by buying just one to make sure you're happy with it?

I got a soft-close easy-remove version for my new Twyford, and it is very nice, but it will had better last a long time.

Yes, PJ I have done that, as the postage was either £6 for one or £12 for multiples, lets hope. Not long after I ordered I heard the 'bang' that drives me mad every time someone lets the bloody lid drop!

I suspect the world has moved on from my toilet seat ..... but thanks very much PJ, I would never have put my specs on and seen the tiny etching on the flush button.

A small victory for mankind, the IS seat is a perfect fit. 🏆

I was on tenterhooks waiting for the update . Congratulations flatpack !!

😂 let’s hope they have a better temperament than yours Raging and they don’t try to throw me off!