I like my toilet seats...

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Hard.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to pee on a warm, squishy, comfort-molds-to-your-butt foam toilet seat. Especially if it's dyed some god-awful pastel color.

I'm entirely unconvinced that one can properly clean those things. I'll green clean my entire house, but you better believe that my toilet is cleaned with the most abrasive, earth killing, bleachiest smelling cleaner I that I can get my rubber gloved hands on. But I don't even think that those can get in the miniscule pepto-bismol toned grooves in the foam.

Why does one's butt need to be squishy comfortable whilst doing nature's business? Are we really that lazy? It's as if one needs to go from a squishy couch to a squishy toilet seat with no break in the comfort level. I mean really, perhaps we should take the cool hardness of the seat as a wake up call to our derrieres. If you notice the comfort level change, than perhaps you are spending too much time on your rump. Or perhaps they are meant as a respite for the constipated? I suppose if one was spending oodles of time on the pot than one would appreciate the foamy commode.

Have you ever sat on a foam seat right after someone else has used the toilet? <<shudder>> Why anyone would choose a toilet seat that retains body heat is well beyond my level of comprehension.

Well it depends on what kind of foam.

If it is a flexible polyurathane foam it is most difficult to clean(an upholstery steam cleaner would be your best bet) but if it is a polyetheylene foam those are quite easy to clean as they have no sponge type qualities.....the problem with the P.E. foam is that it tends to be quite firm(almost as firm as a hard seat) unless you get one of very low weight and quality(say a 1.2# - 1.7#)versions....anything above a 2.2# will just be way too firm for a seat that's supposed to be soft.

Another option would be to use flexible extruded vinyl accatate(EVA). This foam is somewhat spongy in feel but still what they call a closed cell foam(will not absorb moisture)...in fact, this stuff is used in life vests for floatation. Be carefull when choosing this stuff though because it also can come in a very firm ILD....you will want to get something soft so ask for a "Y-20 EVA soft". The biggest problem with EVA is that it costs nearly 3 times as much as the other two foams.

For the Cadillac of foams choose CONFOR foam. This stuff is a memory foam but nothing like the memory foams they sell for beds....it is super dense and conforms to ones posterior using the science of NASA. It is an open cell foam so it will be difficult to clean, but man is it comfortable.....this is the stuff Jet fighter pilots sit on when pulling 4+ gs.

----------------------

What?