Toilet seats: wood or plastic?
Alisande
6 years ago
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Wooden toilet seats and transitions toilet seats--any experiences
Comments (1)On the toddler seat question--No big cons! LOVE THOSE! They are so easy for your kiddo to use. We put one on our parent-education/toddler group bathroom toilet and many parents planned to go out and get one for their child's primarily used toilet at home. The only experience I have with a wooden seat is that they can split along the grain of the wood. When that happened on one of our seats, it pinched legs... Hopefully you won't end up with any weak grains at a stress point....See MoreWood toilet seat --where to buy
Comments (3)Waterworks has several of these and they are very pricey. I don't know if they will fit the Porcher toilet but it is worth a try. Good luck!...See MoreRoper Rhodes Wood Toilet Seats
Comments (0)Roper Rhodes makes a nice line of solid wood (and other kinds) of toilet seats. They seem far superior to anything I can get here short of maybe Waterworks. They are a UK company and seem to sell only out of stores in the UK. I have contacted several of these and they do not ship to the US. HELP. Anyone know how I can buy a couple of these? I contacted RR directly but as yet have had no response. I don't know why there is such a dearth of really nice wood seats here or am I missing something?...See MoreHow do you clean a wooden toilet seat?
Comments (11)Actually, the chemical composition of wood is strongly anti-bacterial. I do realize that the wood has a finish on it. That finish should not be more prone to bacteria than the finish on other types of seats. I have a big slab of Teflon 3/4 thick that was donated to me. My idea was that it would make a wonderful kitchen cutting board. Then I saw test results that showed that wooden boards had much lower bacteria counts that any other type of cutting board. Except for the possibility of splinters, I see no problem with wooden seats. Our outhouses, which we used until the mid-50's, had unfinished wood seats. We scrubbed them once a week with (heated on a woodstove) boiling water. Here is a link that might be useful: Look, listen....See Morebossyvossy
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