Toilet seat

The toilet seat, even toilet or toilet seat, called in the jargon seat ring is usually a fold-up seat for the toilet in the shape of a ring is broken on some models at the front. Toilet seats are usually made ​​of plastic or lacquered wood, since these materials are skin friendly, washable and sufficiently stable. Other materials such as metal are rarely used.

The purpose of the toilet seat is to avoid direct skin contact with the ceramic perceived as unpleasantly cold and to make the seat for different seat sizes to fit.

The toilet seat is usually delivered as a functional unit with a lid for closing the toilet. Including a variety of toilet seats and lids models in different colors or designs. Are widely used in models ( " plumbing " - ) White. There are single-color models in so-called sanitary colors that harmonize with the corresponding color other sanitary objects in a room, to a colorful, sometimes " artistic " design (see picture) or transparent, partly transparent colored plastic with enclosed design objects such as shells, stones or barbed wire. There are toilet seats and lids units of various sizes to match different toilets ( lavatory, toilet ) models, toilet seats with soft and so-called hygiene seats with a renewed after each use PE blown film.

The smooth, dry surface they form a bad breeding ground for germs. Therefore, the use of antibacterial bathroom cleaner is not required for the toilet seat according to prevailing medical opinion. Do not availed and would can only lead to an unwanted resistance of germs.

In many Japanese toilets simple toilet seat was replaced by the Washlet. Newer toilet seats also offer odor. The Fäkalgase be extracted directly to the seat surface and adsorbed to activated carbon filters.