Wooden toilet seat

[Nick Gibbs]

Has anyone ever made (or bought) a small wooden loo seat for children? It needs to be about 315mm wide and 397mm deep, for a compost toilet at a pre-school outdoor camp.

Thanks

Nick

 

[monkeybiter]

I've occasionally thought about making a toilet seat, but I'm a little on the heavy side and the thought of any unseen cracks opening and closing if the seat flexed always scared me off!

 

[adidat]

thought of any unseen cracks opening and closing if the seat flexed always scared me off!

just the thought brings tears to my eyes

adidat

 

[custard]

What a brilliant question, I remember those seats so well from school camping trips!

I've been looking through 1950's and 1960's editions of The Woodworker to see if there's any plans or advice for toilet seats. Unfortunately post war protocol and modesty must have made this a forbidden subject, because even though there's plans for table lamps, garden swings, and even building your own oak fridge (I kid you not) there's not a word about hem, hem...toilets.

 

[Mark A]

the thought of any unseen cracks opening and closing if the seat flexed always scared me off!

That would be a pain in the rear :roll:

I know, I know....hats and doors etc

 

[Nick Gibbs]

What a brilliant question, I remember those seats so well from school camping trips!

I've been looking through 1950's and 1960's editions of The Woodworker to see if there's any plans or advice for toilet seats. Unfortunately post war protocol and modesty must have made this a forbidden subject, because even though there's plans for table lamps, garden swings, and even building your own oak fridge (I kid you not) there's not a word about hem, hem...toilets.

Actually, making them must be easy, it's the fittings that are probably the tricky bit. Watch out in British Woodworking for a loo seat: we have no modesty!!!! We'll try to do something in the next couple of issues. Just the sort of Frugal Woodwork we like.

Nick

 

[twothumbs]

From my distant memory they had a large section to the rear, which sat on top of the pan. Say 3-4" deep on which chrome hinges with fancy shapes were face screwed to the top edge. This back plate was fixed, I think, with something like carriage bolts. I am sure you can come up with something in that direction. The current seat and pans will have standard hole centres if they need to match up to anything. I dont think close coupled came in until the sixties. The seats were made with several sections, possible four to create the circle. The old joke of wood splinters still rings true, so a fine grain would be preferred by enthusiastic users. Hope this is of some help.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

Are you planning to make it from bog oak?

 

[Grahamshed]

Are you planning to make it from bog oak?

Tut Tut. You will make people loo's respect for this site

 

[andersonec]

Had to make about three hundred of these when the Turks invaded Cyprus....

The box 'Thunder box' is made from planks to whatever height is require and about 600mm square.
For the lid we planed one side of a plank and cut it into lengths which will sit on top of the box, three of these planks are then held together with two battens screwed on the unplaned side, it is then turned over and an oval hole is cut with a jigsaw, the cut edges are softened with sandpaper but could be rounded with a router, the lid is then hinged to the box to enable buckets to be removed.

Measurements and exact sizes will have to be worked according to the size of the average user.

Straining bars are optional...

Andy

 

[Rusticwood]

For my first Saturday job I had to hand sand normal sized loo seats smooth, oh what fun :roll:

 

[Hardwood66]

Watch out for splinters :0


If life gives you melons you may be dyslexic

 

[xy mosian]

Used to be Dad's last job as we left for a holiday. Paint the loo seat! Normally Horrible pale green, you know the colour.
xy

 

[Benchwayze]

What a brilliant question, I remember those seats so well from school camping trips!

I've been looking through 1950's and 1960's editions of The Woodworker to see if there's any plans or advice for toilet seats. Unfortunately post war protocol and modesty must have made this a forbidden subject, because even though there's plans for table lamps, garden swings, and even building your own oak fridge (I kid you not) there's not a word about hem, hem...toilets.

Actually, making them must be easy, it's the fittings that are probably the tricky bit. Watch out in British Woodworking for a loo seat: we have no modesty!!!! We'll try to do something in the next couple of issues. Just the sort of Frugal Woodwork we like.

Nick

Nick..
Screwfix.com supply toilet seat fittings. Brass too if you have a mind for them!
So far I've found the fittings to be standardised.

HTH

 

[Cowboy _Builder]

Make from MDF and a few coats of varnish.....then there will only ever be one crack on the seat and the little nippers won't get nip in the bud ...I made one for the site Thunder Box and it lasted over 2 years of" Hairy Arsed Builders" , I used to give it a new coat of varnish every couple of months .

 

[Jonzjob]

The way that this plan uses to fix to seat to the composting loo means there's no hinges needed, just 2 buckets. Therefore all you need is a bit of board wide enough to fit over the loo and cut the correct size hole in it for the likkle darlings.

Godd idea for their wee wee too 8) 8)

 

[Smithy]

Hi

I have made a toilet seat and lid in the past. There was an article in Good Woodworking by Pete Martin ( I think that is right.) I got the brass fittings from Homebase.

Mike

 

[Sawyer]

I recommend tapping into the wisdom of Lem Putt in The Specialist. A standard work on the subject. :lol:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Specialist- ... 0285632264