Updated I have found the UltraTouch Toilet seats are perceived by folks to be quite a bit warmer than the standard variety of seat. They are covered by a type of soft polymer material, and do not have the shock associated with other types of toilet seats I’ve installed. Further, they even have a heated model, if one would like. Interestingly, these seats are made by Hogue, the company that makes pistol grips, including the soft polymer variety. Also, the company known as Toto makes toilet seats that will maintain a user-set temperature. In addition, they will wash the users backside with heated water, and even dry it- blow dry style, as well as functioning as a bidet. I have heard rumors of a model that even greats the user and raises the lid of the seat when one enters the area. Furthermore, if the idea of a heated or more fully featured seat does not appeal to you, or you’re worried about the expenditure in electricity to heat the seat (as some responses have said), then you can forgo the seat altogether.

If you install a squat toilet, like the one below, you will never have to worry about the toilet seat or its temperature ever again.If you live in the west, and don’t want to tear up the floor to install a squat toilet, there are options available as well. The picture below shows the concept.Footnotes[1] UltraTouch Heated Toilet Seats[2] WashletsWritten In Japan every hotel I stayed in (even the traditional Onsen) all the toilets had heated seats combined with bidet function. These are also (so I am told) now common even in private homes./Home-Ga...My wife is after me to get one fitted NOW!Written Cover the seat with fabric. A simple way to do this—if your seat is separated into two halves—is to put socks on it. Otherwise, you can buy a purpose-made toilet seat cover. I bought the one made by KLOUD City, and now my bum is happy! In the winter, the porcelain toilet seats can get extremely cold and are just unpleasant to sit on in the event that 'doody' calls. Is there a quick way to warm up the toilet seat to make it more comfortable to sit on?

I assume both warming up and insulating the toilet seat from the skin will give the same comfort. Place socks on either side of the toilet seat. This will prevent the direct contact of buttocks with the toilet seat, but there are some risks involved in it as the socks may get germs, so be sure to wash them afterwards. Fold the toilet paper three or four times and place it on one side of the seat, ensuring that it covers one side of the oval seat. Do the same for other side. 3. Rub with Napkin Rub the seat with towel napkin until it warms up to the satisfactory level. 4. Artificial seat made of cloth Stitch a seat shaped material with some thin layer of insulating material. Have some sets of this. I sit on it for a few seconds with my pants on. This lets enough heat transfer that it warms up, but not so much that its unbearable. Three rather simple methods you could use before/instead of sitting down on the cold seat: Preheat the toilet seat by rubbing the ring for a while using your hands

Add some insulation, like covering the ring with toilet paper Avoid sitting on the it, squat over it like they do in some culturesSolar Powered Lights For Flag Pole If you have a minute to spare before sitting, try using a blow dryer, otherwise known as a hair dryer, on it. Band Saw Tires For SaleThat should work pretty well, but only if you aren't dancing from holding it in.Diy Mickey Mouse T Shirt A prevention method, and not really a hack, is to buy either a heated seat or one of those cushioned seats which will still be cold but should warm up much faster. Soak toilet paper with hot water. Rub the toilet paper on the ring of the seat and squeeze out the water. Then dry the toilet seat. The toilet seat is now warm.

We use to wash it with boiled water to keep it warm in winter season. A porcelain toilet feels cold because porcelain is good at transfering heat. You can buy plastic or wood toilet seats: this is a ring that is placed on top of the toilet, and attached to the toilet via a hinge. Plastic and wood don't transfer heat as easily as porcelain, so they don't feel as cold. I always switch the waterline on the back to the hot waterline. if you don't have one by a flexible cord and go in the basement switch it aroundBrowse other questions tagged temperature bathroom comfort or ask your own question.Now that’s true love. 21 Awesome Products From Amazon To Put On Your Wish... Trump Beach Resort In Florida Seeks More Foreign Workersheaven in winterColor: Eucalyptus Green|Color: Sky Bluewinter is coming.... Warm and comfy, but slips aroundColor: Infinity Blue|I taped it on but am very disappointed. No more cold toilet seat!Is It a Miracle?Winter weather can make going to the bathroom a little unpleasant.

Even in a heated household, toilet seats can get a bit chilly. How-to illustrator Yumi Sakugawa suggests sliding on some socks. Instead of your feet, slide one sock on each side of the toilet seat. Obviously little ankle socks are not going to cut it—you need the long kind. This way your bare buttocks will come in contact with comfy fabric instead of cold plastic or porcelain. Of course, you must keep cleanliness in mind. Don't keep those socks on there too long or they'll get all kinds of nasty bacteria on them. Use them to your butt warm, but change them up regularly!12 Cold Weather Hacks to Get You Through the Rest of the Winter Season | Have your sayDo you avoid using public toilets? There's nothing worse than desperately needing to go to the toilet when the only options are a service station or public park.You hold your breath and try not to think about the disease-causing germs that are probably crawling all over the seat and bowl – chlamydia, gonnorrhea and syphilis, to name but a few.

But can you actually catch a sexually transmitted infection (STI), from a toilet seat?No you can't, according to sexual health expert Professor Basil Donovan, because even if the bacteria and viruses that can cause an STI got onto the seat, they can't survive for long after leaving the human body.As their name suggests STIs are most commonly spread through sexual activity, including intercourse, oral sex and, in the case of some diseases such as genital warts, direct skin-to-skin contact."There's nothing very magical about STIs, they're fastidious bugs which don't like dry [conditions], heat," Donovan says."Most organisms are quite fragile so don't last any more than a few minutes... because they dry out and die."But if, for argument's sake, enough disease-causing organisms had survived on a loo seat to make you sick, could you actually pick up an infection?Again, Donovan says it's highly unlikely as none of our body parts that are vulnerable to sexual infections actually touch the toilet seat."

Viruses such as warts can't get in unless there is a break in the skin, and when you have sex it induces micro-trauma and breaks the outer layer of skin," Donovan says."If the virus was just dabbed on the outside of your skin it couldn't attach itself,".Granted, if you had a cut on your bottom and there were bacteria or viruses on the seat it is theoretically possible that you could catch an STI.But Donovan says in all his years of treating patients he has never suspected a toilet seat as the source of any STI.Toilet seats are also unlikely to be the source of urinary tract infections, most commonly caused by the bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli), because your urethra – the tube that connects the bladder to the genitals and can become infected – never touches the seat.So if you can't catch an STI from a loo seat, where has this belief come from? Well, doctors may not be completely innocent in inducing this paranoia, Donovan says.In the late 19th century doctors tried to destigmatise STIs by saying infections could be contracted in a variety of ways – not just through sex."

One they used was that you could get syphilis from common drinking fountains, which had cups attached to them," Donovan says.But while you don't need to worry about picking up an STI the next time you need to visit a public convenience, you should still think hygiene-first while in the bathroom.Washing and drying your hands after using the toilet is one of the most important factors in stopping the spread of the germs that can cause digestive diseases, such as rotavirus.Donovan says the most important habits for hygiene are:"Drying your hands is more important than washing them. If you wet a door knob you do a disservice to everyone because you are improving the environment in which germs can thrive," he says.Professor Basil Donovan is head of the sexual health program at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society (formerly known as the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research). He is also a sexual health physician at the Sydney Sexual Health Centre at Sydney Hospital.