A couple of years ago I bought a state-of-the-art Geberit toilet, rimless with a soft close seat installed by the local plumber.
After a couple of weeks, I sat on the seat and it broke, I am around 75kg so not a lightweight and equally not extreme.
I took it back to the plumber to complain and he showed me the small print in the brochure that said “do not sit on the seat”. How long has that been so?
My whole life I have sat on the seat, how else do you cut your toenails?
So I bought a new seat, expensive, as it is integrated with the ring and this soft close stuff
I was sitting on the toilet at the weekend and the ring broke. Called the plumber and no it is not under guarantee.
Next week I will go to Jumbo and buy a wooden seat I can sit on!
We’ve had three toilet seats in as many years because each has spontaneously cracked, at least once in the dead of night when it sounds like a gunshot. Turns out the screws attaching it to the toilet were too tight and it was constantly under tension.
Wow, I’m not sure I understood correctly: do you mean you sit on the lid (when it’s closed) or directly on the plastic ring of the toilet to cut your toenails? Either way, I have to say, I’m astonished!
But I have to wonder: how do you manage to keep the process clean while sitting on the toilet? I can only imagine the clippings scattering everywhere!
For me, a toilet bowl has never been a seat for anything other than its primary purpose. I’ve always told my husband to sit on the edge of the bathtub with his feet inside it; or even better, just sit in the tub or the shower pan to take care of his toenails. That way, any clippings are contained, and the cleanup is easy.
He also knows I won’t appreciate it at all if he sits on the edge of the bed for this task. I’m quite the neat freak, and he also knows better than to sit on the bed with clothes he has worn outdoors.
As for the toilet seat situation, I’d guess you’ll find plenty of bargain prices at Jumbo. After all, who’s ever bought a toilet seat as a Christmas gift? Seems like there’d be no competition in that aisle!
Your story did give me a good laugh, though. I hope that wooden seat from Jumbo can finally handle the pressure of multitasking! Good luck!
Dunno about Marton, but I cut my toenails with scissors, always have, and there’s no risk therefore of them pinging all over the place. But I don’t sit on the toilet seat cover.
Some people just do not have basic life skills. Do not close the lid. Do not sit on the lid. Is there anything worse than meeting a WC with a closed lid? It means you have to lift the lid. What is lurking in the depths? If you closed the lid, did it mean that you had something left to hide?
“do not sit on the seat”? Do they also give a course in levitation?
When I got back from India I kept up my habit of squatting on the toilet. After a month of that the toilet cracked and had to be replaced.
