Toilet seat won't stay up

[seth]

I'm staying at my inlaws during renovations.

They replaced the old toilet seat with a new one that won't stay up.

Any tips on getting it to stay up?

[Barry_White]

A couple of velcro dots. Put the loop one on the seat the others are very scratchy.

[scooter]

Seth, the seat mounting bolts are sometimes offset or eccentric, to allow for variances in hole spacing in the pans they are mounted to I think.

Try loosening the seat mounting bolts, move the seat as far forward as possible, then retighten.

If this doesn't help, I dunno. Maybe if the whole suite was replaced the pan was mounted too close to the wall, not allowing the seat & lid to "lay back" far enough to stay up.

Good luck............cheers.............Sean

[seth]

Yeah,
Already tied moving the bolts, no success.

It is not the original seat which is the problem.

A Caroma seat on a Fowler pan.

Barrys idea appealls to me but may not to the Mother inlaw. She likes the caroma seat as "it's comfortable".

[seth]

Have to add I can't have a logical conversation with a female about it. I'm trying to compare it to them complaining about the toilet seat always being up.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Just point out that if it falls down during a 'transaction' you ain't the chief floor-washer & seat-cleaner...

[flynnsart]

We have a couple of new ones in the motel where I work, one visitor had enough know how to fix it. We found it gaffer taped up Worked a treat. They are a bugger for whoever cleans it too you know

Donna

[johnc]

Seth,

I think the easiest way to fix the problem is to learn to pee sitting down, either that or tactfully buy a seat that "works".

John

[joe greiner]

Does the lid have one of those fluffy covers on it? They'll shift the centre of gravity enough to keep it closed. Surely an invention of the devil.

Joe

[Andy Mac]

Can't help you with the problem (every option short of moving the bowl out, has been covered), but I've been in loos like that... sure is a pain to do your business with one leg planted against the seat to keep it in position!

Cheers,

[mixin]

If it's a plastic cistern you may be able to turn off the water, flush it to empty it, and then use a heat gun to soften the plastic & mould in a depression for the lid to angle past the gravity point.

You can always tell the M-I-L you're doing a water-saving mod to the toilet

[flynnsart]

perhaps a small magnet, and an opposing piece of (decorative)metal glued in strategic positions?

donna

[Sturdee]

Buy her a lemon tree in a large pot. Put it just outside the back door and use that instead.

Before to long she'll get a new toilet with a lid that will stay up.


Peter.

[keith53]

I like the velcro idea. Or, what about leaving a lump of blue tack on top of the cistern. Just wedge it between the lid and the cistern at certain times, then remove for others!

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

A rare earth magnet glued under the lip of the seat (where it won't be sat on ) and a thin metal plate glued to the cistern?