Hello everybody 'Lurgs' here welcome to my channel and today it's how to fit a brand new toilet seat
and on this particular toilet seat you can see that the hinges actually snapped at the back
and these are the steps I'll be covering in this video number 1 I'll be removing the broken toilet
seat number 2 that's my business number 3 fit the new toilet seat number 4 wash our hands and
number 5 a lovely cup of tea! I'm just gonna put this small cushion mat down just to save my knees
if you kneel down on hard floors every day that's going to take its toll
now you shouldn't need any tools for today's job go underneath your toilet
and what you've got here is you've got the mechanism which holds it all together
now the first thing you need to do is release this fly nut by turning it anti-clockwise
now when you turn this anti-clockwise the thread nut system might actually turn as well if that
does happen that is good news because that means that you can just lift the toilet seat away
nice and simple but if that is rusted in there you might not be able to get that out
in which case take the fly nut off and the metal washer and the plastic washer take that all the
way off and make sure you do this on the other side of the toilet seat as well and what you can
do then is literally lift the old toilet seat away from the toilet and there we go that can be taken
to your local recycling centre if you have managed to get the threads off it will look like this
and it just leaves behind the two plastic sheath covers they can just go in the bin
and then we'll just give this toilet area a nice good clean here this is just lots of rust over
time which has come off the metal brackets whilst I'm doing that there's a link above now about how
to fix a leaking stopcock and this is the new toilet seat that I'm going to be fitting today
this is a wicks tongue and groove effect soft closed toilet seat and you get everything that
you need inside here including the nut tightener and these are the contents that you get with the
new toilet in here you've got the two threaded bolts you've got two plastic covers you've got
two plastic washers two metal washers two thread holders and your nut tightener on the back of
the toilet bracket you've got two different places where you can screw in the bolt thread
now they do this so you've got a slight bit of adjustment in the toilet seat if you tighten it
up into the outside thread this will mean the toilet seat is closer to your toilet cistern
and it may not actually stand upright and it will keep falling down so today I'm just going to be
threading it into the middle one and we'll see how we get on with that but you can always change
it to the other one later on if you need to so I've now got those two bolt threads in each side
in the middle version take your two plastic nut washers push those into the holes at the
back of the toilet there this obviously stops the china from cracking and holds the bolts in place
they're all fitted now you might get lucky with the way the toilet comes and the bolts
just slot straight through those holes but if it doesn't fit you can actually adjust those bolts
inwards and outwards and you do that by undoing this screw here do that on both of the brackets
and this allows you to move the bolts left and right
hopefully you won't need to adjust these and it's a standard size
fit and the bolts will go straight in so I'm going to do now is just leave
those brackets on the back of the toilet slightly loose but a little bit tight and then as I push
them into those holes they will automatically adjust themselves because they're loose
now I know that that is the perfect fit so just gently lift it back out again
and after we lift it back out again just be careful not to move those brackets
and what we're going to do is just tighten up those screws nice and tight
so they're in that exact position be careful you don't drop any of those plastic nuts down
into the toilet otherwise you'll be putting your hand in there and getting it all wet
so take a screwdriver just tighten these up clockwise
make sure that you hold the bracket so it doesn't move about and change its position
now I'm going to go super tight with this one
now you can put these plastic sheath covers on and because you've got the bolt in the middle it goes
through the middle hole make sure the raised ridge line is facing in towards the bracket
then it should just slot straight in
just push it down gently
and it should be nice and flush a little bit loose here just haven't pushed it down properly
there we go
great stuff now we're ready to tighten the bolts underneath the toilet seat
is looking all nice and flush here oh flush yeah very good 'Lurgs' very good,
right let's tighten it up now first of all check that that bolt is nice and tight
then take your plastic washer slide that one up first
then the next one is the metal washer
slide that all the way to the top
and then we've got the metal nut just put that on spin that clockwise until you get very near the
top once it gets near the top then you can take the special tightening tool that they've supplied
get that on the nut and just tighten that home
clockwise tighten it as tight as you can with your hand but don't go too crazy
whatever you do don't try and get a spanner on there because you don't want to crack the china
on your toilet do that on both sides let's just check the soft close mechanism all looking good
great stuff
make sure you wash your hands with hot water and
some soap because you've been working in the toilet
and then I think it's definitely time to have a lovely cup of tea
oh. If you're going to be working on any how-to videos make sure you have a lovely cup of tea
oh and now please a little bit of privacy I need to use the toilet!
I hope you found that useful, up here there's a video about how to replace your toilet handle
flush lever and on this side there's a video about what to do if your washing machine is not draining
water properly, thanks for visiting my channel everyone I really really appreciate it. 'Lurgs'.