Toilet seat won't stay up

I'm staying at my inlaws during renovations.

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

Any tips on getting it to stay up?

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

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

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".

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.

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

:D 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:2tsup: Worked a treat. They are a bugger for whoever cleans it too you know:q

Donna

Seth,

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

John

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

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,

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 ;)

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

donna

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

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


Peter.

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!

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