Hi fellow DIYers,
Today I'm sharing something that may not be very sexy or fun: changing stuff on a toilet! 🤢
DIY Toilet Lid Change
It's been a while since I've done a DIY post! I decided that I needed to do one and one of the things we did at home was make some small changes to things. The toilet in one of our bathrooms had a really old and gross lid! Time to go!
The lid was from when the condos were built, not a huge deal but since we are going to be selling the place in the coming weeks and months, we knew we should make some really inexpensive improvements to improve the overall look of the place. A toilet lid was an easy one and only 25$!
As you can see, it was an old metal lid (I think?) that was having some serious paint chipping on it so we said screw it, let's get rid of it and get one that looks decent!
I don't know if I've swapped a toilet lid/seat before so I wasn't expecting it to be very difficult but what I wasn't expecting was for it to be as tricky to figure it out as it was! The other toilet lids we have in the house are newer it seems, since they have lids that just gently secure to the toilet with a plastic screw or something up top. Not this one!
I guess I never thought to look under the toilet. I was like what the hell, why won't the toilet lid budge when I try to remove it?! Then I had to look up a few videos and found one that mentioned old toilets which this one was. Then I saw screws underneath. Ding! It was what I had encountered as well here.
Thankfully doing a lot of car and mechanical work in my fun time, I had ample tools for the job! Had my trusty 1/2 inch socket ratchet here to do the job with a nice hardened steel 14mm socket to destroy these bolts!
Not as easy to take a photo and try to unscrew at the same time but I managed to get 'er done!
Now that the old thing was gone, time to install the new one! One of the things I did to make sure was give it a rough fit. Things lined up well, so onto the cheap plastic screws!
For once, things lined up pretty well!
I think this was an easy improvement that we made for sure. Inexpensive and it adds to the appeal of the unit since the other parts of the bathroom aren't really awesome but we don't have the time or funds to waste on that so we are leaving it as is.
Time to toss this old clunk into the dumpster!
It was an overall fun quick little DIY project. The little man helped out and had some fun with it alongside me so it was a good way to spend 20 minutes after work I think!
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