How often

[monkeyboy]

How often do you change your toilet seats?

The foamy cushion ones seem to split and pinch, but the wood seems to crack

 

[DisneyBamaFan]

Every 2 or 3 years, whether they "need it" or not.

 

[themilesfamily]

I think we average about one per year.

 

[cybrkitn]

I hate to say it, but we were changing ours every few months for awhile. The hinges would tighten up so much that the metal hinges would break (it was a wooden seat). To this day, I still don't know why .

We recently switched to one with plastic hinges that you just unlock and take the whole seat off to clean. So far it's working great.

 

[Buckalew11]

Those soft foamy ones seem germier to me. ick. And if you're cracking the wood one then you should lose a pound or 2.

 

[Silent1CB]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090829195018AAxDM3G

Our house is over 20 yrs old and we still have the original ones. they aren't broken. Its never occured to me to change it just because. Its cleanable. We just clean it.

 

[dejr_8]

After every time we have guests over. You never know where they have been.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I'd only change it if it was broken or started to wear out or something.

 

[kimblebee]

After every time we have guests over. You never know where they have been.

Either you don't have a lot of people over or you own stock in a toilet seat company. Maybe you need cleaner friends

It never occured to me to change the toilet seat. As a PP said, it's cleanable so I clean it and that's good enough for me.

 

[dejr_8]

Either you don't have a lot of people over or you own stock in a toilet seat company. Maybe you need cleaner friends

It never occured to me to change the toilet seat. As a PP said, it's cleanable so I clean it and that's good enough for me.

We sell them on the black market to China. There is a huge demand for American toilet seats in China.

 

[pipersmom]

We sell them on the black market to China. There is a huge demand for American toilet seats in China.

Wouldn't that be the Brown Market? :

 

[Aisling]

Those soft foamy ones seem germier to me. ick. And if you're cracking the wood one then you should lose a pound or 2.

Agreed on the ick factor!

 

[NHdisneylover]

It also never occurred to me to change one Our are neither the squishy ones (I hate having to sit on those when I visit someone who has one) nor wooden--it came with the toilet and is made out of the same sort of plastic (it matches the toilet anyway). We have never stayed in a house more than 5 years and one has never broken in that time.

 

[lovephotography]

About one per year..

 

[DeniseinNS]

We have the plastic seats that came on the toilet, we built the house 7 years ago and have never had to change the toilet seats. Those cushion seats remind me of something from the 80's, and I never heard of wooden toilet seats lol.

 

[MIGrandma]

It never occured to me to change the toilet seat. As a PP said, it's cleanable so I clean it and that's good enough for me.

We've lived in this house 30 years and we have replaced the seats on each toilet (3) once since then. Currently the wooden seat in the main bath does have a crack but DH just gorilla glued it and it's holding fine so we don't feel the need to replace it. I've never liked the padded seats for some reason, either plastic or wood for us.