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toilet seats
dave r - 30/9/10 at 09:01 PM

are they all a standard size ?
i just broke mine

Davegtst - 30/9/10 at 09:03 PM

No they aren't. I thought they were so i bought one from homebase, took it home and it was way too small. Just roughly measure it and take the measurements with you.

Ninehigh - 30/9/10 at 09:05 PM

Do they do toilets in various sizes too?

Jon Ison - 30/9/10 at 09:37 PM

ours is bum sized

se7en - 30/9/10 at 09:48 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Davegtst
No they aren't. I thought they were so i bought one from homebase, took it home and it was way too small.


That was one of those special seats for one cheek at a time.

Ninehigh - 30/9/10 at 11:40 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Davegtst
No they aren't. I thought they were so i bought one from homebase, took it home and it was way too small. Just roughly measure it and take the measurements with you.


What happens when it's too small?

"Marge! I got the toilet seat stuck up my ass again!"
"Oh I told him to get a bigger one but would he listen?"

I can see people in Homebase right now (well not RIGHT now) checking how well it fits their backside

Stott - 1/10/10 at 12:52 AM

This should fit and be light enough for the wife to put down after you: LINK

dave r - 1/10/10 at 05:54 AM

ta

like the carbon one, but will prob end up with white

britishtrident - 1/10/10 at 06:49 AM

Standard size unless your loo is truly ancient.

Quality of the hinges is the main criteria ------- ikea sell really robust ones.

scootz - 1/10/10 at 07:58 AM

Just do without... then you can never get a row for leaving the seat up ever again!

BenB - 1/10/10 at 12:28 PM

I saw a funny thing (kind of related) in John Lewis last Christmas. Bloke obviously buying underwear for his significant other. He had various colours, patterns etc and was staring at all the different sizes. So (in the middle of the shop) he held out his hands in front of him in the traditional "how big was the fish" style and decided his GFs bum was obviously of a certain size and purchased a size 14 as it was that wide.

Now I did want to explain that clearly this wasn't going to work due to the fact that the pants on the hanger are the circumference divided by two whereas the width he was visualising was the diameter which was very different. And of course guestimating the size of someone's posterior from some kind of weird physical memory obtained from (it appeared) leap-frogging exercise probably wasn't going to be that accurate....