KOHLER K-4636-0 Cachet Quiet-Close Elongated Toilet Seat, White

We had just stayed at the Venetian in Las Vegas and the bathroom ahd these automatic lid closers! It was great and as soon as I came home I purchased on Amazon 3 #4636 by koeler for each bathroom. My wife loves them ,I love them, our friends love them....and look great and never an open toilet again.

I hesitated to spend so much on a toilet seat, but I have no regrets at all. It is beautifully designed and manufactured. The soft-close and removable features both work great, as other reviewers have said. The seat is at least as comfortable as the padded seat I had before it, and it's light but very strong; I weigh almost 300 pounds, and the closed lid doesn't give at all when I sit on it (I've sat on some plastic seats that felt almost like a trampoline). By the way, the seat fits and works fine on my old generic toilet from the 1950s, so the toilet doesn't have to be either a Kohler or new.

One small thing that I didn't notice until I started using it is the very nicely designed hand-hold at the front edge of the lid. The lid sticks out just a little bit farther than the seat at the front edge only, which provides a perfect lifting point for your fingers. It's a small and subtle design feature that makes a nice difference from any other seat I've used.

The only caution I'd pass on is to be careful when you install the seat about getting the little square black posts aligned correctly. They mate with the hinge latch in only one orientation, and there's no mention of them in the installation instructions. The seat comes with them correctly oriented inside the hinge, but it's hard to keep them there while you mount the seat because you have to unlatch the hinges to do it. A reviewer of the round version of this seat had complained about this and about the poor installation instructions that don't help at all. So before I took the black posts out of the hinges for mounting I checked which way they were facing, and everything went fine.

This is a well made toilet seat. It is solid, meaning you can sit on the lid and it doesn't flex. When you close the lid, it slowly closes and doesn't slam, how awesome is that! It also is made to quick release for cleaning. I highly recommend if you have a Kohler toilet.

The toilet seat and the lid close extremely slowly and quietly. The cover and seat are made out of a lighter weight plastic than I was expecting. The seat and lid does NOT feel like a cheap seat. It is just made from a lighter weight plastic.

There are no bangs or squeaks or any sounds coming from cover/lid or the seat when it is opened or closed.

Sounds weird, but I searched the net one day to find a toilet seat that would not slam when I shut it or accidentally dropped it. What do you know, they DO EXIST!

I picked up two of these. Let me tell you what - these things should be STANDARD on all toilets! Oh man, so nice just lightly closing the seat or lid and walking away knowing they are gently gliding down. No slamming! None. Not even a peep!

Only downfall is - when visiting friends or what not, you get used to your seat and when you use theirs (they have a regular one) you either catch yourself gently pushing the seat down which will result in a slam, or quickly pushing the seat down, which will also result in a slam (this is done on the quiet close seat if you want it to shut quicker - you push it down).

So, as you can see - you get used to the luxury of a quiet close seat! Don't have one? INVEST IN IT. At least one for the busiest of bathrooms in your home to try it out.

I guarantee you will like it!