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[venta]

Today's really flippin' weird request:

I would be most grateful if anyone who has the time, has the inclination, and is able without great effort or personal inconvenience, could measure their toilet seat. And comment to tell me the results.

The dimensions I would like to know are the front-to-back measurement and side-to-side measurement of the "hole" part of the seat. Although places like B&Q online list dimensions, I think they're overall dimensions and I specifically want to know about the size of the hole.

Assuming no one is likely to want to measure more than one, info about whether your chosen data point is in your home, an office, or somewhere else might be useful. Any details of colour, vintage, paddedness of seat, etc are left entirely up to you. Units as preferred by the measurer (preferably sensible ones, if anyone claims they do all their DIY in parsecs I shan't believe them).

(Reasons for asking, if you care, to be revealed in due course...)

Comments

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Upstairs lavatory at home (installed 1996) 10 3/4ins x 8 3/4ins (27cm x 22cm). Downstairs in shower room (installed 2007) si a slightly squared-off shape & is 11ins x 8 1/2 ins (28cm x 21 cm). Any help?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Thanks! All answers are helpful, I'm trying to work out approx. average hole-size :)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

The inner edge isn’t vertical; it’s 24cm x 29cm at the top at 22cm x 27cm at the bottom.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I presume that was left-to-right and front-to-back, not that you have a landscape toilet?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes. I’m surprised everyone else measured it the other way round, really.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Indeed... your way seems analogous to width x height, which would be the usual way of doing such things.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I guess everyone else has landscape toilets.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I certainly have a meadow, a woodland grotto, and a medium-sized ha-ha in mine.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

Circa 275mm x 220mm.

Curse you and your earworms!

[uitlander]

[venta.livejournal.com]

It is just one of the... one services I like to provide.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Argos' Finest, bought and installed late last year. 26cm x 23cm.

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

268mm front-to-back, 215 mm across at widest point, measured on lower face - the hole is slightly larger on the top side. Wood (allegedly oak), at home.

[venta.livejournal.com]

My (1930's) toilet at home seems to be 290x225mm.

(I prefer inches, but an going with the flow.)

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

I'll measure it if I end up sitting in front of it tonight as well :(

[venta.livejournal.com]

Oh dear! Much as I'd like you to measure it, I rather hope you don't!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

285x232mm (Downstairs toilet at home.)

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

258 x 213mm
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