Bemis 1500EC Durable Wood Toilet Seat with Easy Clean Hinges, Made in USA, Elongated, Biscuit

So this seat comes with NO INSTRUCTIONS. Here's how to install quickly and easily. It can make the difference of loving or hating this seat. Turn the hinge anchor covers to the unlock position (left). Push the long plastic bolts (phillips head first) into bottom side of hinge. They snap in. They don't screw in. Then turn the anchor covers to the lock position, locking in the plastic bolts and giving your seat some fangs. Place seat on toilet, pushing bolts through toilet's seat mounting holes. Take the little black plastic nuts, broad end first, and screw onto long plastic bolts from the bottom. Make as hand tight to toilet as possible. Broad end first makes the nut wing easier to grip from the bottom, as it goes on either way. Note: It can be hard to screw nuts on all the way for lack of finger space. Don't be afraid to trim the wing of the nut a little with a scissors if needed. This is necessary for my Kohler toilet. Then just screw it on as far and tight as you can. Now that the seat's on, you can use the quick-release feature to tighen it down harder. Turn both hinge anchor covers to the unlock position. Now pull the entire seat off the toilet. The seat comes off and the plastic bolts stay, exposing the phillips heads. Tighten them down hard with a phillips screwdriver while holding the black nuts below. Carefully place toilet seat back over bolts until seated securely. Turn covers to lock position and make sure all is tight. And there you go! It's on and it can be pulled on and off til your hearts' content without unscrewing. Note: The caps of the hinge anchor covers do NOT pry up and open. They look like they should, but don't. Down the road, it's easy to forget you can't flip those covers up to expose the phillips head for tightening. They can break off if you try. You have to pull the whole seat off to get to the bolts for tightening. Tip: Whenever you pull seat off to clean, have a screwdriver handy and tighten down harder if necessary. Confession: I used to hate this toilet seat and vowed never to buy one again. I installed my old one (same exact Bemis seat) years ago and completely forgot it even had a quick change feature. When it started to wiggle, I'd grudgingly get on the floor and tighten those annoying black plastic nuts from the bottom as I could, but couldn't get them much tighter. It would come loose again soon. I hadn't trimmed the wing edge at all so the wing hit the toilet and would get stuck. I swore my next seat would have a stay-tight feature, or metal hardware I could clamp down hard with a ratchet. I couldn't find a seat on Amazon the right size, color, and price. So I thought I'd get the same one, and order a tightening kit. I'm not convinced the seat needs a tightening kit-- or that the one sold on Amazon fits this exact seat. If you try it, please comment below. I really think tightening from the top lets you clamp it down hard enough that it shouldn't come loose very often. And it's easy to tighten when it does. I agree with many reviewers that this seat is the best value by far. Are these 1980's prices? And it's real quality, solid wood, old school. My old one never broke, and the new one is identical in every way. My old one was purchased somewhere around 2005, so it held up well. It did recently get a large chip in the finish, but something may have been dropped on it. Otherwise the finish held up well, not that anyone here pees on the seat. The seat color in the pictures is biscuit. Even though the Kohler toilet is almond. I guessed my toilet was biscuit, but you can see the biscuit is lighter. This Bemis seat does come in almond, looks like it would match, but not sure I want to bother. Kohler also has a seat in almond or biscuit. Pictures are lined up at the bottom, as the posting process would not allow them to be posted appropriately throughout the review.

Very well made. Great quality, especially for the price. Easy install, comfortable to sit on, and it looks great! What more could you ask for!

Good quality, simple to install, wood elongated toilet seat. Have installed 5 of these at my home and no complaints. A simple value, bang for your buck seat.

I’m giving it a 4 star but really because the description was misleading. According to the pictures, I should have gotten a biscuit for Kohler, but in actuality I should have gone with almond. They are very similar and only I can tell the difference and it’s in a bathroom only I use. It was super fast and easy to install. Comes off easy for cleaning the hard to reach spots. It sits with no wobble and is high quality, stable material. It looks great even if the shade is a bit lighter than I needed. It also fit very easy over my bidet.

I’d buy this quality seat again. It was really easy to install and is the perfect color match.

This toilet seat is solid and durable, with a nice weight to it. Installation was easy, and the easy-clean hinges make cleaning much simpler. Fits perfectly and looks great in the bathroom.

10/28/25 Update It was easy to easy to install, but is harder to keep attached. Just deleted one star. The cam and bolt on this unit are nylon or some variation of vinyl or silicone. The flip lock frequently must be retightened and closed. Original review: The hardest thing about installing this toilet seat cover was removing the nuts and bolts from the old one. That took about 10 minutes. It was also a Bemis wood one and was around for years before I bought my house. So, the directions are easy, even though the little brochure was barely as big as my hand. I had watched a video on YouTube that turned out to have presented an earlier model. . Maybe 5 minutes altogether, and that was mostly me double-checking that I hadn’t missed a step. Did the sit test and very comfortable. Why only 4 stars? Because I had to order twice. The first one arrived cracked across the seat on both sides. It arrived leaning upright against my porch, as did this one that I re-ordered. The arrows on the boxes showed that it should be transported in horizontal position. Reading some other reviews, it seems that the cracks on arrival are not unique. Also, as you can see, It is a bit lighter in color than the toilet base. I should have gone with a darker one - especially after I saw the first one - but that’s on me because I didn’t even think about it. (Just wanted to get a new one here ASAP. ) However, no biggie since it’s an old toilet and will probably be replaced before it needs another replacement seat cover.

The color was slightly off compared to my almond toilet so if you have an almond toilet this might not be for you, but that's my fault. Other than that, it has a great fit, it was easy to install, and the price was great. Seems sturdy and is comfortable to sit on.