Changing the *^##@^!! Toilet Seat

I installed a new toilet seat last night. Putting the new seat on took 5 minutes; removing the old one took almost three hours! The toilet is from 1899, but I don’t think that matters since the seat was only about 3 or 4 years old. I couldn’t budge one of the plastic nuts at all and the other stuck after a few turns. I ended up taking a hack saw to the blot where the plastic nut had moved a little. That was very slow work because of limited clearance. The other plastic nut didn’t move enough to let me get my hack saw in place, so I slowly scraped it off with a very small chisel.

Before I put the new seat on I remembered reading a recommendation years ago to coat the bolts wit petroleum jelly so that they could be removed easily.Hopefully THAT will work and it’ll only take 10 minutes when it’s time to change the seat again. In any case, it couldn’t hurt and I recommend it to all DIYers.