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Bathroom Fitting

Tighten screws on toilet attach to vanity unit

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.40 PM

We have a toilet fitted to vanity unit and the seat has come loose. The only way we can see to tighten the screws is to take the lid of the vanity unit off and someone with a very long thin arm can reach down to tighten screws. Is there an easier way to do this?

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5 Answers

Spectrum Interiors

Rating: 5 out of 5
Kettering
The vast majority of toilet seat are fixed from above, remove the seat by pushing in the release button/s located on or around the horizontal pivot bar,and you will be left with two chrome shrouds each around a vertical shaft/ post, lift up these shrouds to reveal the fixing screws and tighten, ensuring you keep checking the alignment of the seat, then reverse fit the covers and seat Hope this helps.
Answered22 August 2021
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Lee Southwick Bespoke Bathrooms

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Lowestoft
There is likely a button under the seat, or on the two hinges that allow the seat to be lifted off. Once out of the way lift the chrome caps covering the bolts that go through the pan (easiest when twisting at the same time) below those should be a screw that can be tightened from above the toilet. Toilet seats are never fitted pre install of the pan, they can always be tightened from above.
Answered22 August 2021
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Effigy

Rating: 5 out of 5
Milton Keynes
Usual but not always, the toilet seat on 'back to wall/vanity unit' toilets are top fixing seats. If this is the case then there will be a release buttons or catch on or near the seat hinge. Some seats pull off (up) and some slide horizontally towards the front to detach. The pull off (up) type will have a cap over the screw head. Remove these to expose the screws that hold the seat hinge. The slide type will expose the screws when you slide the seat off. If for some crazy reason the installer of the toilet installed a bottom fixing seat then you will have to remove the side fixing screws at the sides of your toilet near floor level. These usual have a plastic screw cap covering them which can be removed with a flat head screw driver. You should be then able to carefully slide (slightly lifting) the toilet forward so that you can gain access to the rear and underside of the toilet seat fixing holes. Good luck
Answered17 September 2021
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Handyman vince

Rating: 5 out of 5
Camelford
This depends if top fix system has been used . If the old way has been done then only re moving to pan with you able to get to the nut at the bottom. If this is the case I would purchase some top fis fittings and change to this system.
Answered21 September 2021
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Anonymous user

Glue it down
Answered25 October 2021
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