TOILET SEAT CHANGE How to do it?

Soft close toilet seats are very nice. To change an old lid that slams on closing just do it yourself. It's not hard, in fact it's very easy.

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Toilet Seat Change - How to Do It

Hey, this is Dennis with Home Rehab Pros. It's really good to see you today. I hope everything is well for you and your family. Today, I have a very simple project to do – I'm going to replace a toilet seat. You might think you'll never need to do this, but perhaps you want to change the toilet seat. Maybe it broke, or maybe you'd like one of those slow-closing units they have nowadays, so it doesn't slam when you lower the lid. Anyway, I've got my toilet seat and the toilet, so let's see how easy this is to do. You can do it yourself, so let's watch.

Here's the toilet. It's a little older, but we could probably modernize it if we wanted to. They just want to use it, and you can see it's all dirty and the paint is worn off. They want to get that changed, so we're going to do that. We're going to use this self-closing toilet seat. They call it Whisper Close, and it's a Precision Fit Top-Tight Stay-Tight Seat Fastening System. Let's see what that means when we take it out of the box. But first, let's take a look at how we're going to remove the old one.

The first thing we do is, of course, we need a screwdriver. I have a nice-sized screwdriver with a decent-sized head. The reason this is important is that we don't want to strip the screw on top. Let's take a closer look at that. Here's the top, and you can see the toilet seat. There's the flap, and it just opens right up. You can see the screw. Now let's open this one. Yep, there we go. Now we just need to loosen those screws, and that wing on the nut will swing around to the other side and rest against the toilet. This will help us loosen the bolt and take off the toilet seat.

Let's get this first bolt out and I'll show you what it looks like from the top. Again, I have a nice-sized screwdriver so it doesn't strip the screw or the bolt. We're going to turn it to the left – remember, righty-tighty, lefty-loosey, which is true for most bolts and screws. Now that mechanism at the bottom will tighten against the toilet in the other direction, allowing us to remove the bolt. Let's take a look at the other side from underneath.

Now we're going to unscrew that bolt and see how it swings. Look at how that swings and nestles against the toilet. So now we can loosen that up. Genius, isn't it? That way, we don't have to work too hard. We can just unscrew it, and it'll pop off. Now we can take this toilet seat off. There's our toilet seat, nice and dirty. Here are the mechanisms. We'll need to adjust the toilet seat before tightening it down. This could be a little more centered. Let's put the bolt in. I should probably open the bag first. Let's take a look at these bolts. They're basically the same, but these have a bolt form, and we can probably tighten them by hand. Then there's the typical nut that will rest against the toilet and help us tighten it.

Let's take a look at the directions and see what they say about installing these, as they're a bit different from what I took off. Okay, so they're just going to go through the toilet. Let's get it set down there nicely in those holes. I'll flatten these out a bit more too. There we go. Now I'll adjust the toilet seat so it's where it needs to be before tightening it down.

I'm going to use pliers because I couldn't find a wrench. Let's see how that goes. I'm going to tighten these bolts until the top part breaks off. This is a bit tough with pliers, but it'll work. You can do it however you're comfortable. Just be patient and take your time. Let's get this one done. There it goes, second one broken.

Now I just close the lids, and that solidifies it nice and tight. Opens up really nice. Now let's see how it works and why we changed it, other than being old and having the paint worn off. So as you see, a nice slow lowering of the toilet seat. This one does the same thing. No more slamming toilet seats. They'll close nice and easy and soft. Job done.

So there you have it. I could have made it a bit easier if I had a half-inch wrench, but we got the job done. You don't have to worry – just move slowly, methodically, and there are the mechanics of changing out a toilet seat. Can you do that? Absolutely. Do you have to? Maybe not, but if you want a slow-closing toilet seat so it doesn't slam, it's a nice adjustment. For $25-30, you can get a really nice seat, change out the old one, and you can absolutely do it yourself. This is Dennis with Home Rehab Pros. Thank you so much for watching. We appreciate your time and effort in keeping up with our videos. We'll see you in the next one.