How to fit a toilet seat: IKEA TOILET SEAT KULLARNA review & unboxing & instructions

How do you change a toilet seat in the bathroom? Can I fit an IKEA KULLARNA round toilet seat on a SQUARE toilet bowl? I try just that by replacing an IKEA Kullarna wooden toilet seat for my square B&Q plastic toilet seat. Will a round soft close toilet seat even work on our rectangular bog? Will it take me under 4 hours? As you'll see in the video, I have big problems with removing our old toilet seat... but after that it's plain sailing with step-by-step instructions for fitting an IKEA Kullarna to your toilet.

How to fit a toilet seat: IKEA TOILET SEAT KULLARNA review & unboxing & instructions



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four more turns

breathe Neil breathe 

I’ll try

hello welcome back to the channel and welcome back to the vlog and welcome to our bathroom!

this is the dad delivers vlog 

wow it's really echoing here

this is the dad delivers vlog where we try to be happy with what we've already got and I’m sharing my experiences as a dad and today I’m gonna be stumbling through this

it's - oh that’s the bigger one - it's the IKEA Kullarna toilet seat and today I’m gonna I’m gonna attempt the impossible 

I’m going to try and replace a square toilet seat with a round toilet seat 

I’m gonna bend physics

I’m gonna... I’m gonna do the impossible 

I do not know why we bought a square toilet

well I say we it was me I chose this 

I know why

it's because it was cost effective 

it was cheap and then I realised it's cheap for a reason 

nobody wants a square toilet!

it is ridiculous! 

toilets have been round since Victorian times since the industrial revolution 

I thought we would get more toilet for our bucks but this soft close is... is... is... 

well it's a bit no close isn't it?

as you know this is the second worst job that a dad can do in a house

the first worst job obviously is trying to find parking while your child has gone to accident and emergency in hospital 

you know fumbling around for change that's the worst job 

the second worst job is this

changing a toilet seat 

I know there are worse jobs in the home but look at this 

this has gone really not very well

there's a there's a crack here 

this is why men don't put the seat down

because you know you know the wear and tear is eventually going to lead to the day where you've got to change the thing 

you just don't want to do anything to shorten that finite life and... 

and end up like me on my hands and knees in the bathroom fitting a new toilet seat 

and so we have salvation in the form - the round form of the IKEA Kullarna round toilet seat 

this is an unboxing I’m going to open it like a pizza I think 

let's see what's inside ah it is it's like a delicious pizza that you can sit on and it will comfort you

we've got some crucial instructions some protective cloth ah and the toilet seat itself 

there's the crucial bag of bits

  

now I don't I don't know if this is even going to fit our toilet 

there's a bit of jeopardy in this video because this this video could end very quickly 

now I’m running the camera in real time

now I’m running the camera in real time 

let's take this away I think that's an IKEA product too ding! 

so the first step is to remove this monstrosity from our frankenstein toilet 

oh gotta reach up

oh there's only one way this rust has happened oh and the problem with toilet seat rust is that it stops the nut from turning on the thread 

I’m trying to force it through the toilet seat rust 

oh man

oh this is hard 

now the other problem I’ve got with this situation is that I might have to keep all of the bits because I might have to put this seat back ON

okay this should work 

it won't move

oh got it! 

there we go that's removed but I’ve got to be super careful and then hopefully these will come off?

Urgggh! 

none of my allen keys fit and I’ve not given the gift to myself of keeping the actual allen key for this actual seat

I... I think I did keep it and then I threw it away

I can feel the last rust coming off the bottom just four more turns

breathe Neil, breathe 

I’ll try.

Got it! Woah! 

you've birthed it 

I’ve got to do the other one now

that's taken 30 minutes 

for the other side I’m going to use a hacksaw to try and get through here to get to the screw

[SAWING NOISES] 

okay that didn't work so now just forcing it out by just bending it as hard as I can without trying to crack the toilet

well cracking the toilet would be a bit of a relief right now

but hey you got it! I did it! 

it's gone!

Uggghhh! 

next I’ll clean it with with this

next goes on the Kullarna toilet seat from IKEA so this makes it my IKEA dad vlog

this is my one of my IKEA dad videos 

I’ve got a whole channel over over here

we get a bag of bits and the first job is to fit these things to the bottom of the seat on the hinges 

just like this you press them down on the silver or chrome hinges there 

next you need to choose your hole and you do that by measuring the gap between the two holes in your toilet bowl - your toilet basin there

mine is 148 millimeters which matches these sections in the instructions

so that's how I know where to put the bolt and then these plastic nuts go onto the bolts

now it's time for the reach around - the filthy toilet reach around - And put these nuts onto the bolts 

it's a bit difficult to reach around and hold the bolt on 

dropped my nuts!

final part we're nearly there we just need this thing to tighten up the bolts so I’ll just twist this around and that will lock the nut on the bolts underneath the toilet bowl

and I think this is it 

I think I’ve managed to sort of do it

it's not quite what I wanted but this is the Kullarna IKEA toilet seat and it sort of works with the square bowl 

It’s coming out but it has a soft close lid for both... both the seats and the lid and this isn't quite what I wanted but it... it's at least it comes out as far as the front edge there 

obviously it's square so it doesn't fit the seat at all but I’ve got a toilet seat that isn't cracked and that might actually work and not crash down in the middle of you know what 

and it's good, it feels solid and oh my goodness check out the chrome fittings there on the on the hinges

we will never see them this colour again! 

that is going to turn into rust over time I’m sure but I’m just going to enjoy it while it lasts 

so that's it I hope this helps

it's a very specific problem I’m trying to find a round seat on a square toilet bowl 

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