How to Install a Toilet Seat

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Summary: Learn how to install a toilet seat from a professional plumber in this free home improvement and repair video tutorial.

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Bob Street Bob Street has been in construction for over 25 years. He is a carpenter, plumber, electrician and heavy equipment operator including loaders and back hoes. ... read more

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The comment about the way the water goes down the toilet is complete rubbish. Firstly, the water in Australian toilets doesn't swirl at all. The design of the bowl leads to a tumbling action rather than a swirling one. Secondly, the coriolis effect which determines the ways things such as high and low pressure systems swirl in the different hemispheres has no effect on the way the water goes down the toilet or the drain. It is pure urban myth. See http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Coriolis_ef fect#Draining_in_bat htubs_and_toilets or http://www.ems.psu.e du/~fraser/Bad/BadCo riolis.html Please edit the transcript, video to stop the perpetuation of bad science.

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How to Install a Toilet Seat

My name is Jeff Pence and I am with Bob Street today from Houdini Home Improvement in Lebanon, Ohio on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip, we will be installing the toilet seat. Just make sure that you have all of your bolts and let Bob explain the rest. All right, the seat and the bolts provided and the toilet to go back. Cap snap up. Place this in the holes, place our bolts, some washers, place the nuts on the bottom. The nuts on the bottom hand tight? Hand tight, snug them up and I'll take a screwdriver and get them snug in the center of the seat and give them a final turn. Make sure our toilet is centered up on there. Now that the seat is centered, Bob just takes a screwdriver and holds the nuts underneath and tightens the bolts from the top. Again, snap the cover back over the screws and I think we are ready to use that. Let's flush it again. Is that an urban legend about in Australia that it goes down to direction. What is that fact? I believe that is fact Jim. South of the equator, the water swirls counterclockwise. Is that just the way tht the water is going into the bowl? No, it is actual centrifugal force. It's not urban legend.