Carex Toilet Seat Riser, Round Raised Toilet Seat Adds 3.5 inches to Toilet Height, for Assistance Bending or Sitting, 300 Pound Weight Capacity Toilet Riser

I thought I was going to have everything that I needed when returning home after an open abdominal hysterectomy. However, I soon realized that my low toilet was going to be a major problem for my comfort. It caused me a lot of extra pain while trying to sit and stand, and once sitting I could never get comfortable. After a couple of days dealing with this issue, I finally thought to order a toilet riser. It arrived the next day and my husband said it was very easy to install. It has made such a positive difference for my bathroom visits. I really wish I would have had it as soon as I came home but I’m grateful that I at least have it now. It’s very secure and it makes life so much easier right now. If you have a low toilet and go through any type of surgery that will require you to use extremely painful muscles while sitting and standing, do not hesitate to get this. The price is great too!

I can not praise this riser enough. It has really made a difference, and now no pain sitting on the toilet. Pretty easy to install as well, although I do have to tighten the screws every now and then

Easy to install and works great. Added extra lift for my tall clients. Make sure you get the right shape for your toilet.

It's a fairly-well designed toilet seat riser that installs under your existing seat, raising it by three inches. The mounting slots allow it to be adjusted forward or back slightly, to account for variances in the bowl size (something we're seeing more and more, as toilet manufacturers seem to increasingly stray from conventional dimensions - Kohler, I'm looking right at you). It's quite sturdy, and the 300-series stainless steel bolts and fixtures hold things together nicely, as long as you tighten them down. The butterfly nuts work most of the time, but on a few occasions we had to switch to a hex nut & steel washer due to the wings being obstructed (again, on a bizarre Kohler "designer" model toilet). On the rare occasion that the underside of the toilet, around the mounting holes, has an irregular surface - a large rubber washer with a steel fender washer often does the trick. We usually add 3/8" a steel washer, anyways, and occasionally a locking washer. The foam-rubber padding, installed on four points under the riser, also help prevent it from slipping around the surface of the commode. As other reviewers have pointed out - in some cases the inner rim of the toilet is lined up with the riser in a particular way where liquid may run down the side of the riser, and between the porcelain rim of the toilet and the riser. It doesn't happen with with every toilet (1 out of 3 in my experience), but it's been an issue with several popular brand-name toilets we've installed these on. We recommend to our clients to loosen the butterfly nuts, but don't remove them. This provides an inch-or-so gap where one can use a spray washer or steamer to clean and sanitize in between the riser and toilet, without having to remove everything. We've attempted to use adhesive rubber as a gasket seal, but it didn't help very much - liquid eventually did seep in, as the riser would still move around slightly during use. Caulking worked to some extent, but made it difficult to remove the riser if needed, if the caulking didn't fail by then (the riser still moves around during use, and contracts and expands at different rates from the toilet). Despite this problem, the Carex B306-00 Elongated riser is one of the better risers on the market, especially at this price. We've installed much-more expensive risers, and even those still had difficulty with liquid settling between the porcelain and the riser. Hinged riser designs alleviate this problem, but come with their own host of problems (installation difficulties, too much lateral movement, and breakage the most common). This riser is also far more sturdy and safe than risers that clip on top of the seat. As such, we most-often recommend this item to our physically challenged clients, who require additional height on their toilets. Despite it's problem with liquid sometimes seeping under it, it's a good quality unit that's sturdy, has very secure hookup parts, and is well-priced.

This was easy to install on my mom’s toilet after she had knee surgery. We had to find something… she would just drop to the toilet because leg wouldn’t bend. It’s perfect while recovering from surgery. It’s very stable and heavy quality. Fit perfect on the toilet.

I bought this in advance of knee surgery, but having tried to attach it to my toilet I concluded that while the seat itself seems sturdy, it has some fatal design issues. - The extra-long bolts included in the package have a larger diameter than typical and were too large to pass through the mounting holes in my fairly generic Kohler toilet seat. The bolts also have very large heads, so even if I could get them through the mounting holes, they would prevent the existing bolt covers from snapping down on them. - Each bolt includes a metal washer, a plastic washer, and a metal wing nut. The instructions don't say how to use the washers, although it seems like they would need to be on the top because the holes in the seat itself through which the bolts pass are absolutely huge and the bolt heads wouldn't be able to hold down the seat without the washers. However, that leaves only the metal wing-nuts anchoring the bolt to the toilet itself at the bottom, which seems like a great way to break the porcelain of the toilet if they're screwed down tight. I suspect I could go to Home Depot and find some bolts that are the same diameter/thread size as came with my Kohler seat but are long enough to pass through this seat riser, and which would work with my existing Kohler mounting hardware. But at this point that's too much trouble. This seat is going back.

I bought this raised seat because I was having knee-replacement surgery. The seat is good and it was easy to install, and I liked that I could use my old toilet seat on it so it wouldn't be an open toilet like a public bathroom. It also accommodated my bidet. I did have to put felt pads at the front of the underside to keep it level. It didn't work out well for me, however, because I am only 5'3" and it raised my seat so high that my feet could not rest on the floor. Only my toes could reach the floor, and that caused pain in my leg. At first, I thought it was mostly because my knee was so stiff from the surgery, but as my knee got better, my leg still hurt when I sat on the toilet because it was too high. I had to remove it after just a couple of weeks. If I were a little taller, it would have been great.

Just right height n easy to install