I've been needing to replace two toilet seats for a long time. They're not terribly expensive, around $26 each. And I've had one replacement sitting around the house for a long time, just needing motivation.
A friend is arriving tomorrow afternoon. Motivation received.
I unpack the replacement: and I'd bought an elliptical, and both of our toilet bowls are round.
Go back to Home Depot, explain that it was bought a long time ago, and the SKU is no longer in their system, so they can't give me credit. No problem, I'll give it to the Habitat For Humanity store.
Buy two new toilet seats. Go home. Open box. Bolt head is over an inch tall, clearly can't close the little cover over where the bolt head rests.
Go to hardware store In The Village. Narrowly avoid pursuit by giant weather balloon. Purchase hacksaw. Cut off head of bolt in convenient niche seemingly designed for such. Write strongly-worded email to manufacturer complaining that the wrong parts kit was included with my two new toilet seats.
Still, I got the job done.
Get a reply to my email later that afternoon. If I had used a box-end wrench, the top part of the bolt is designed as a torque limiter and snaps off when the proper amount of torque is achieved to prevent anything from stripping, leaving the proper amount of clearance for the cover to close.
*facepalm*
Perhaps some day I'll learn to read instructions properly. I read them, it's just some how the part about the top part of the bolt snapping off on its own just did not sink in.
The nastiness awaiting me is taking out part of a wall to replace the valves and head of the master bath wall. That part, in and of itself, isn't too difficult, it's clearing out all the crap in front of the wall. My wife has a bookshelf there covered in fanfic that she's bought at cons over the years that hasn't been touched in the 15 years that I've known here, yet she doesn't want to throw it away.
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Date: 2017-08-16 02:41 pm (UTC)A friend is arriving tomorrow afternoon. Motivation received.
I unpack the replacement: and I'd bought an elliptical, and both of our toilet bowls are round.
Go back to Home Depot, explain that it was bought a long time ago, and the SKU is no longer in their system, so they can't give me credit. No problem, I'll give it to the Habitat For Humanity store.
Buy two new toilet seats. Go home. Open box. Bolt head is over an inch tall, clearly can't close the little cover over where the bolt head rests.
Go to hardware store In The Village. Narrowly avoid pursuit by giant weather balloon. Purchase hacksaw. Cut off head of bolt in convenient niche seemingly designed for such. Write strongly-worded email to manufacturer complaining that the wrong parts kit was included with my two new toilet seats.
Still, I got the job done.
Get a reply to my email later that afternoon. If I had used a box-end wrench, the top part of the bolt is designed as a torque limiter and snaps off when the proper amount of torque is achieved to prevent anything from stripping, leaving the proper amount of clearance for the cover to close.
*facepalm*
Perhaps some day I'll learn to read instructions properly. I read them, it's just some how the part about the top part of the bolt snapping off on its own just did not sink in.
The nastiness awaiting me is taking out part of a wall to replace the valves and head of the master bath wall. That part, in and of itself, isn't too difficult, it's clearing out all the crap in front of the wall. My wife has a bookshelf there covered in fanfic that she's bought at cons over the years that hasn't been touched in the 15 years that I've known here, yet she doesn't want to throw it away.