Toilet seats are often found very durable in designs and most of them are made of wooden or particle board to solid wood. Also padded seats are just a padded induced on wooden seat by any adhesive solution. So, its normal to find crack or patch on a toilet seat after long use or by any accident, which also can be repaired by you without any specialized knowledge. You will not need any advanced tool but
Basic DIY tools .
Let see the step by step method of fixing a broken or cracked toilet seat:
Step 1: At first remove that cracked toilet seat from the toilet fixture by unscrewing the seat screws using a flat screwdriver.
Step 2: Spread the crack slightly and push wood glue or wooden adhesive solution inside of it. Make sure the glue coated entire inner surface of the crack.
Step 3 : Squeeze the seat together you can use bar clamp. Wipe out any excess glue on the outer surface of the crack
Step 5 : dry overnight or minimum 6 hours and re-install it.
Note: if you find it's cracked or split heavily , or if it is pinching your back. Or if it seems nasty to look at then think about it .Toilet seats are pretty reasonable, so price shouldn't be an issue. If you don't want to look at the nasty underside, get rid of it and replace with a better one.
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