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Our master bathroom get the most use by far. Recently the water kept dripping from the shower head. Great, so I shut the water off, and pull the cartridge and just replace it. Then the shower head started leaking out the side where the seam is to let it adjust from massage function to spry head. No repairing it as it does not come apart. So it gets replaced.

Then the toilet seat plastic hinges just snapped as I was lowering it after my morning urination. No way I will ever find the hinges that fit right, so yet another replacement. The wife goes along to pick out the "right" seat that meets her approval. She wants one with a brushed stainless steel hinges.

I open the package at home, and every toilet seat I have ever replaced had large plastic bolts with a screw driver head to easily tighten them from above and the nut has a flap on one edge to hold themselves in place and super easy to R&R them.

Not this seat. With the fancy metal hinges I had to thread a stud into the hinge, screw a plastic bushing in place, then get a long plastic nut threaded on from the bottom. One side was easy. The side closest to the wall where there is little space was a challenge. The toilet itself had part of the porcelain water channel is in the way of the bolt. So undo the other side, and hold the seat leaning over to start the bolt, and snug it down than redo the other side. A 5 minutes task was suddenly a 35 minute task.
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