Bemis 500EC 006 Toilet Seat, 1 Pack Round, Bone

So this seat comes with NO INSTRUCTIONS. Here's how to install quickly and easily. It can make the difference of loving or hating this seat.Turn the hinge anchor covers to the unlock position (left). Push the long plastic bolts (phillips head first) into bottom side of hinge. They snap in. They don't screw in. Then turn the anchor covers to the lock position, locking in the plastic bolts and giving your seat some fangs.Place seat on toilet, pushing bolts through toilet's seat mounting holes.Take the little black plastic nuts, broad end first, and screw onto long plastic bolts from the bottom. Make as hand tight to toilet as possible. Broad end first makes the nut wing easier to grip from the bottom, as it goes on either way.Note: It can be hard to screw nuts on all the way for lack of finger space. Don't be afraid to trim the wing of the nut a little with a scissors if needed. This is necessary for my Kohler toilet. Then just screw it on as far and tight as you can.Now that the seat's on, you can use the quick-release feature to tighen it down harder. Turn both hinge anchor covers to the unlock position. Now pull the entire seat off the toilet. The seat comes off and the plastic bolts stay, exposing the phillips heads.Tighten them down hard with a phillips screwdriver while holding the black nuts below. Carefully place toilet seat back over bolts until seated securely. Turn covers to lock position and make sure all is tight.And there you go! It's on and it can be pulled on and off til your hearts' content without unscrewing.Note: The caps of the hinge anchor covers do NOT pry up and open. They look like they should, but don't. Down the road, it's easy to forget you can't flip those covers up to expose the phillips head for tightening. They can break off if you try. You have to pull the whole seat off to get to the bolts for tightening. Tip: Whenever you pull seat off to clean, have a screwdriver handy and tighten down harder if necessary.Confession: I used to hate this toilet seat and vowed never to buy one again. I installed my old one (same exact Bemis seat) years ago and completely forgot it even had a quick change feature. When it started to wiggle, I'd grudgingly get on the floor and tighten those annoying black plastic nuts from the bottom as I could, but couldn't get them much tighter. It would come loose again soon. I hadn't trimmed the wing edge at all so the wing hit the toilet and would get stuck. I swore my next seat would have a stay-tight feature, or metal hardware I could clamp down hard with a ratchet. I couldn't find a seat on Amazon the right size, color, and price. So I thought I'd get the same one, and order a tightening kit.I'm not convinced the seat needs a tightening kit-- or that the one sold on Amazon fits this exact seat. If you try it, please comment below. I really think tightening from the top lets you clamp it down hard enough that it shouldn't come loose very often. And it's easy to tighten when it does.I agree with many reviewers that this seat is the best value by far. Are these 1980's prices? And it's real quality, solid wood, old school. My old one never broke, and the new one is identical in every way. My old one was purchased somewhere around 2005, so it held up well. It did recently get a large chip in the finish, but something may have been dropped on it. Otherwise the finish held up well, not that anyone here pees on the seat.The seat color in the pictures is biscuit. Even though the Kohler toilet is almond. I guessed my toilet was biscuit, but you can see the biscuit is lighter. This Bemis seat does come in almond, looks like it would match, but not sure I want to bother. Kohler also has a seat in almond or biscuit. Pictures are lined up at the bottom, as the posting process would not allow them to be posted appropriately throughout the review.

This very basic seat is well made with strong hinges and no frills, no slow seat drop to fail, or get stuck, or double the price. The hinges are very beefy and the seat is removable with heavy levers making the seat much easier to install. All of the seat edges are rounded, with no sharp corners to chip or rub off. Looks very substantial and higher endish, despite the low price, almost Danish looking, if such a thing can apply to a toilet seat. The installation took 5 minutes and was much easier than I expected. When complete, it is solidly planted with no looseness, shifting or give side to side or otherwise. However, the seat portion does have a different profile than our previous one in that the seat portion has a rise in the middle of the perimeter instead of being more flat and/or tapered toward the opening continuously from the outside edge. The perception is that the seat feels smaller, though it is not, in any dimension. Took some getting used to, but, (pun intended) I am ok with it. You might not be ok with this so be aware! Otherwise, "a rose is a rose is a rose"

It was time for a new toilet seat, but the one I always got was around $50!! Saw this and the price was so much better. Slightly lighter, and doesn't have the slow close, like the other, but I'm really glad I tried it. So easy to install! I 100% recommend it. Oh, and the color matched perfectly

I purchased several variations of 'almond' or 'tan' toilet seats trying to find a close match to my original 80's model Briggs toilet. This one was the closest color match I found. Overall, the seat was easy to install and seems sturdy.However, it's made of wood, which means you cannot use cleaners containing bleach without damaging the painted finish. Additionally, the seat is very heavy, causing it to slam closed if dropped.The twist-off feature makes it easy to take on and off to clean underneath, but one downside is that one side will occasionally pop off unintentionally.

I was looong overdue for a new toilet seat (the old one was probably 25 years old), so I did some cursory research and landed on this one as a good possibility to fit first of all, but also have some solidity to it. It has more than exceeded my expectations on all counts.The install was super easy - don't believe the person that claimed there are no instructions, there are. Even without instructions this is fairly simple. Getting the seat hinge attaching things figured out took a few seconds but was ultimately easy. Instructions helped! You just need to twist the thingie to one side, then place the whole hinge part on top of the bolt thingie, where you then untwist to lock things in.That leads me to the solidity thing. This is a heavy item, make of heavy and/or pressed wood finished to look like porcelain/ceramic or whatever, so it's definitely solid. Locks into place very solidly as well. It's everything I could have imagined in a toilet seat! Seriously, I doubt I'll ever have to buy another one, and if mechanically dense me can install it in 5 minutes, anyone can!

EXCELLENT WHEN USING A SEPARATE PURCHASE OF TOTO # THU651N TOP SCREW-MOUNT FOR ALL BRAND TOLIETS. NO PLASTIC SCREWS - NO BOTTOM NUTS NEEDED. STABLE AND FUNCTIONAL AS DESCRIBED

Looks great, works great. Had to snip off a piece of the hardware, the plastic nuts included have a little "wing" to make them easier to turn while you're installing the seat but they prevented me from being able to twist the nut all the way tight to the screw and secure the seat. Easy enough fix though.

These are made of wood and last a long time. The seat surface may show signs of wear in five years or so which is the reason I purchased a new seat, for cosmetic purposes only. It's easy to install, less than five minutes. A plus is the anchor bolts are none corrosive. The color is a true match to the original.