Brand new house and brand new toilets and the seats wouldn’t stay in place! It was driving me insane. With the total craziness of moving and unpacking and you can’t even have a calm respite when you go to the bathroom that’s free of problems so it was time for a little toilet repair.
I figured out the problem was the bolts were smaller than the holes in the toilet, so even though they were tight they were able to slide around inside the holes.
Enter the Ginsey Toilet Seat Tool kit available on Amazon and even a little more cheaply at Lowes.
The kit consists of a tool for holding the bottom nut in place and 6 washers. The washers shown here are black, but the kit I purchased at Lowes can with white ones. I think white is better… unless you happen to have black toilets. The only other thing you need is a screwdriver.
The washers fill the holes so the bolts have nowhere to move. I’m not sure the tool is completely necessary — a package of the washers would have been just fine. I guess it did make it easier to hold the nut on the bottom while I tightened the bolts from the top.
Using tool to hold the nut (not sure it’s really necessary)
For some reason no matter what I tried the seat still doesn’t sit perfectly center on the toilet, but I guess that’s a problem for another day. At least it doesn’t slide all over the place anymore.
Economical kit, easy fix, and corrects three toilets. What more can you ask for except just maybe having the seats properly installed when you buy the house? Ah, but that would be too easy.
