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You realize that your toilet seat is getting lost, or it might be time to replace your toilet seat. But, you have one of those toilet seats with no access underside. What should you do? Should you just leave it as is, or is there a way on how you can tighten or remove the seat, even if there is no access underside the seat?

With this guide, you will be able to understand how to tighten the toilet seat, and how to replace it with a new seat. Even without the seat having no access underneath. 

Different type of toilet seats that you can purchase

This is one of the biggest mistakes that people can make. To think that there is only one type of toilet seat that you can purchase. And, that all the toilet seats are installing the same way. 

There is the one toilet seat that is getting tighten or installed in the back of the toilet. The easiest one to install. Then, there is the toilet seat that has no access. Meaning that there are actually no screws that you can unscrew to replace the toilet seat. This is the type of toilet seat that we are going to discuss today. The one that you might think can’t be removed or tighten. 

What to do with a toilet seat without any access underneath?

You should look again. Make sure about where the toilet seat is connecting with the rest of the toilet. If you are feeling careful, you will feel that there might be bolt or screw that you can feel with your hands. You might not see the screws, but you will be able to feel it.

This is the secret about these toilet seats without any access. Most of them have access, but you can’t just see it, because it is hidden. To make the toilet look modern and beautiful. You should look carefully in all directions. You will be able to find a way to remove or to tighten the toilet seat somehow. There are really just a couple of toilet seats that are designed within the toilet.

Guide to tighten the toilet seat with no access underside

It isn’t hard to replace or to tighten the toilet seat if there isn’t any access underneath the seat for removing or tightening bolts. With this guide, you will find that this is easier than what you have thought.

• Look carefully at the back of the toilet seat for any signs of bolts or screws. There should be a way that the seat was installed on the toilet. Most of the time, the bolts are just hidden from plain sight. 
• Now, that you found the bolts, you should tighten it slightly, if this is the problem with the toilet seat. If you want to replace the seat, you should loosen the bolts, being careful not to damage the holes where the bolts are inserted in the toilet.
• Realign the toilet seat, so that it fits perfectly on the toilet before you fasten the bolts again. Making sure that you make it as tight as possible without cracking the plastic of the toilet seat. 
• Now you have tightened the toilet seat, even if the seat doesn’t have any access underside the toilet.

If you still don’t find the access underside the toilet, then you might want to call in the professionals to do the tightening or replacement for you. 

Replacing your toilet seat. Things to know and consider

When you are replacing your toilet seat, there are a couple of things that you should consider. Before you go out and purchase your new toilet seat, you should make sure about the size of the seat. There is the different size of toilets, and you don’t want to have a seat that is too small or too big for your toilet.

And, you need to make sure if your seat has easy access or no access. Meaning makes sure that you know where your toilet seat is going to install in your toilet. The type of method your toilet seat is getting installed on your toilet. Meaning where the bolts are installed, and the type and size bolts needed for installing your toilet seat correctly. Not something that you need to worry about when you are just tightening your toilet seat.

What should you do when you want to tighten your toilet seat, but you don’t find any access behind the toilet where the seat was installed? You just follow our instructions and information and you will not have a problem about replacing or tightening your toilet seat again. In most cases, the toilet seat is fastened with some sort of bolt or screw. You just need to find it, if it is hidden from being seen. 

It is time for a bathroom upgrade. And, you are thinking about installing a shower and installing new showering faucets. This can be a great project that you can do yourself, but then you need to know how to install a new faucet and how to create your new bathroom space. 

With this guide, you will not only get to know all the information about showering faucets, but you will also learn more about how to install the best faucets that will give you the best value for money. This is everything that you need to know about shower faucets and installing new ones.

Know the different shower faucets that you can purchase

The first thing that you need to do, is to purchase your new shower faucets. The problem here is that there is more than one type of shower faucets that you can choose and purchase. You need to make sure that you are choosing the ones that will be best for you and your family. These are the three main type of faucets that you can purchase. 

• The single-handle faucets. These are those faucets that have the T-connection between the cold and hot water. Making sure that you are able to get both hot and cold water, without turning on two taps. This is the most popular and common faucets that you can find in the shower.
• Double handle faucets. These are the faucets where you are controlling the water temperature with the one, and the water flows with the other one. Not really popular in showers, but can be great if you are creating a shower over the bath.
• Three handle faucets. This is for those bathrooms where the electric shower and the bath are basically a two in one. Two of the handle faucets is similar to the double handle faucets. The third handle is for the bath.

Make sure about where your water pipes are

If you are creating a new shower separated from the bath, you need to be very careful. You need to know where the water pipes are. Or, you are going to have a huge problem. This is why most people create a shower over the bath if they want to have a shower after the bathroom was built. Making it easier to find water pipes.

You can’t start making holes in the wall for installing the faucets if you don’t know where the pipes are. If you damage the pipes, you are going to have a mess. Water that is going to be running everywhere and that needs to be repaired before you can start all over again. 

Guide in installing a new shower faucet in your bathroom

This is the basic guide to get you’re going when you are installing new shower faucets in your bathroom. These are just the basic guidelines and you might want to do more research if you don’t know exactly how to install new faucets into a bathroom.

• The first step that you need to do, is to attach the valves to the frame. It doesn’t matter what type of faucets you are installing; this is always the first step. The only way to make sure that you are going to route the pipes correctly. 
• The second step is where you start routing the pipes to the valve. The fittings that you need to attach should fit perfectly. You need to make sure that you are going to fasten these fittings correctly, so that the pipes don’t leak and that it won’t burst either. By making sure it fit correctly before fasten it properly is recommended.
• With the pipes installed, you can now connect the faucets to the pipes. Making sure that you keep the cold-water pipe with the cold-water faucet. 
• The last thing that you should do, is to add the showerhead to the pipes and faucets and you will have a working shower with new shower faucets. 

When to rather call in a professional 

When is it best to rather call in a professional for installing the shower faucets or shower system for you? Or, is this something that you can do yourself, even if you never have done something like this yourself?

If you aren’t a handyman, and you never have installed any form of faucets before, it might be best to hire an expert to come and install the new shower faucets for you. Just to make sure that it is installed correctly.

It might be time to upgrade your bathroom or to install a new shower into your bathroom. Installing a shower faucet isn’t as hard as what you might think. The only thing that you should make sure about, is that you need to know how to choose the best bathroom faucets and how to install it correctly. With this guide, you will get all the necessary information to be able to install the right shower faucets.  Read more How To Remove A Towel Bar With No Screws

You are updating your bathroom, and want to get rid of that old towel bar that is irritating you for so long. But, you are wondering how you are going to get it removed. You don’t see any screws that you can just untie to get the towel bar removed and replaced.

The good news is that there are a couple of ways that you can still remove the bar, even if there aren’t any screws on it. You just need to make sure that you know how to find how it is mounted and how to remove it without damaging the wall. This is everything you need to know about how to remove the towel bar without any screws.

Make sure that there aren’t any hidden compartments

You should be careful. You might not see any screws, but they might be hidden. This is the first thing that you should do when you are trying to remove the towel bar. There might be a hidden compartment, that is hiding the screws from plain sight. Meaning that there might be screws, but it is hidden.

So, you should invest the towel bar, to make sure that this isn’t the case. If this is the case, then you know how to remove the bar, and you can continue with removing the screws. Otherwise, you know that there aren’t any screws and you can continue searching for ways to remove the bar correctly.

Try finding the way the bar is mounted on the wall

Even, if the towel bar isn’t mounted on the wall by screws, it was mounted by something. And, you should find out what. The sooner you find out what was used to mount the towel bar to the wall, the easier it will be to remove it from the wall.

If you don’t make sure what was used, you might have a hard time to get it off. Somethings are really harder to get off than other things. For example, the two-way tape is easier to remove than glue.

Two-way tape removal is easier

With two-way tape, removal is easier. Especially if it was used on tiles. If the two-way tape was used on the wall and paint, it can damage the paint, if you don’t remove it correctly.

The first thing that you can do, is if this is used on tiles. You can just pull off the tape and clean the rest of the tape with paint removal or glue removal. There will not be any damage done to the towel bar or to the tiles. However, with it on the wall, you should be careful not to damage the paint. Throwing some thinners on the tape on the wall will soften the glue and will make it easier to pull off without causing any damage. But, it is essential that you should know that you need to see that two-way tape was used to mount the towel bar to the wall.

Glue can be harder to remove

Depending on the type of glue that was used, it can be really hard to remove the towel bar from the wall. You need to be careful that you don’t break the bar while you are pulling it off. And, you need to know that pulling the bar off, when it was glued on, isn’t a good idea.

There is a special guide that you need to make use of to get the towel rack of when it was glued to the wall and to the tiles. This is to ensure that you don’t damage the bar and that you don’t damage the wall and tiles.

Guide to remove the bar, step by step

It is important that you make sure that you follow this guide if you want to remove the bar, step by step.

• Remove the bar from the ends of the towel rack. This will normally be easy to remove because it isn’t made together. It installs separately.
• Use a flat tool, that you are going to insert between the bar-ends and the wall. Making sure that you have a good grip on the tool. By pulling it away from the wall, you are going to ensure that you are pulling the end bars away from the wall as well. Making pulling it off a lot easier.
• Remove the rest of the glue or two-way tape before you are painting over it.

With this guide, you will get all the information needed to ensure that you are able to remove the bar, step by step. Even if the towel bar doesn’t have screws that you can use to remove the towel bar. But, this doesn’t mean that you can’t now consider upgrades and getting rod of the old, towel bar, and not installing the newer version.