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Loose Toilet Seat Is An Easy Fix

  
  
  

toilet seatA loose toilet seat can be very frustrating. Sometimes they are leaning off to the side of the toilet bowl, and it looks like it is hanging on by a thread. There are a couple of reasons for this, but each is an easy fix.

Toilet seats are hinged at the rear and connect to the toilet bowl by some long plastic bolts. These bolts connect to hinges and the hinges have small screws that attach the toilet seat to the hinge. You can check to make sure these small screws are tight and that the seat is secure to the hinge, but that isn’t likely the problem.

Typically, the problem is with the toilet seat bolts. The nut that threads onto these plastic bolts has probably become loose and simply needs tightening. You will need to reach under the rear of the bowl to tighten this nut. I would recommend rubber gloves as this is a dirty area to work around. You can pry the cap off of the cover that conceals the bolt from the top and place a standard screw driver into the groove and then either turn the nut by hand or hold the nut still and turn the bolt with the screwdriver.

There are some toilets seats that secure to the bowl by rotating the mechanisms at the rear of the seat. These are intended to make removing the seat easy, for cleaning, but can quickly cause a seat to become loose. They usually rotate 90-degrees to one side to remove the seat, and when pushed inline will hold the seat secure.

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