What do you have to measure to buy a toilet seat cover?

Question

Did you think I meant measure you a$$! I want to know what to measure so that it fits perfectly on the ceramic toilet. Why don't they make standard sizes? The landlord's maintenance guy has brought 2 different ones and both don't fit or perhaps he is doing something wrong. This present one looks right... perfect the top of the toilet well, but the plastic rod that passes through the actual seat and the cover seems to move and then the cover falls off. Please solve this problem for me. I hate touching toilet seats!

Answer 1

measure the toilet seat

Answer 2

It's not a problem with the seat. It's a problem with the knowledge of the "maintenance person".

Seats are standard, maintenance people are sometimes sub- standard.

Answer 3

More important is the size of the hole... you should be able to get your head through it with room to spare.  Only try this before you buy and before you fix.

Why the hatred of touching them, are you such a bad shot?

Answer 4

Very Simple, take a ruler, lay it from the center of the seat bolt hole to hole, then simply measure from the ruler to the front edge of the toilet. When you get to the hardware store and the package sais. 18 inch oval or 18 inch round. you pick the shape and measurement that fits. Done. John P.

Answer 5

Toilet Seat Cover..

It covers the toilet seat..

so...

maybe measure the toilet seat?

Answer 6

You will find that all toilets are the same size. There is no need to measure anything.

Answer 7

maybe wen u want to buy a toliet seat cover u measure the lid lol but thats just me!!!!! :)

Answer 8

I was helping a relative with that problem. I took a double page from the newspaper and put it down on the ceramic. Then I put down the toilet seat and traced around it with a marker.

I brought that paper into Lowe's and matched the outline on it against the sample seats they had on the wall.