It has been nearly three years since I hit Home Depot to replace a few older inexpensive plastic toilet seats with Bemis’ model 25CH molded wood seats.<\/p>\n
The molded wood versions seemed like a better fit, partially because the idea of dumping additional plastic into a landfill is unappealing, but also because of the look and feel of the material.<\/p>\n
The downside to these Bemis toilet seats is that the finish lasted\u00c2\u00a0only lasted three years.<\/strong> As of this post, toilet seats are made by the following companies:<\/p>\n Instead of picking up the nicest looking molded wooden seat that Home Depot had to offer, I did a bit more research. I found that certain seats had slow-close hinges that prevented the seat from slamming down when closed.<\/p>\n Requirements<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Manufacturer Results:<\/strong><\/p>\n Resulting Purchase:<\/strong><\/p>\n The American Standard Traditional Champion 4 Toilet Seat 5265.295<\/a> from National Builders Supply<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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\nEach seat looked to have very small chips of the finish\/paint missing.<\/p>\n\n
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\nOne seat, the Traditional Champion 4 Toilet Seat 5265.295<\/a> met all of the requirements, however very few distributors carry the seat.<\/li>\n
\nThe Bemis 544BRCP<\/a> and 544CH<\/a> each met all requirements, Except<\/span> none of these models offered Slow-Close Hinges.<\/li>\n
\nChurch Seats model\u00c2\u00a0540CP<\/a> only lacked the slow-close hinges. While they do advertise easy-close hingest on their site an easy way of ordering them does not seem to exist.<\/li>\n
\nKohler’s molded wood models K-4695 Ridgewood<\/a>, K-4648 Stonewood<\/a> lacked metal slow close hinges.
\nThe K-4639 Cachet Quiet-Close<\/a> toilet seat did offer slow-close hinges, however the entire seat was made of plastic.
\nThe Triko molded toilet seat- K-4726-T<\/a> integrated hardwood fibers (eh, close enough) with metal hinges, but did not offer the Quiet-Close functionality.<\/li>\n
\nToto’s offerings consist mainly of seats with integrated bidets, however the SoftClose Toilet Seat met all requirements except for it’s made of plastic and lacks metal hinges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n