Toilet seat - sorted!

[The Medway Handyman]

Working in a house this morning & saw the solution to the toilet seat that won't stay up!

- no idea who makes them though....

[George]

All's I see is a Toilet seat?

[Graham.]

Designed by a woman perhaps?

Even when they do stay up, a woman will knit a cover for it so it wont!

[Lobster]

?? What are we supposed to be looking at?!

David

[OG]

Presumably the seat connects to the pedestal through the backpiece of wood; throwing the hinge position forwards and allowing the raised seat to end up resting in a stable position against the cistern .

[Alan]

In message , OG wrote

Surely on all well designed systems it rests in a stable position anyway?

[OG]

You've not seen TMH's previous post then.

[NOSPAMnet]

We've seen a pic of the possible solution but we haven't seen a pic of the actual problem . Can't see that this one is much different from what I have or any others I have seen except mine has two hinge blocks and this one has a wooden block . What I'd like to know is why the face of the cistern ( the problem one) is so far forward relative to the toilet bowl that the seat won't stay up .

[The Medway Handyman]

Exactly.

[The Medway Handyman]

Wasn't mine, the OP was Gareth. 'Toilet seat not staying up.'

[Cicero]

========================================= Maybe someone mixed without matching - wrong cistern for the bowl.

Cic.

[NOSPAMnet]

So this post is the solution to Gareth's problem ....or do you have a similar problem ?

Anyway it would have been nice for Gareth to have posted a pic to explain exactly what HIS problem was re the toilet seat .That might have explained things a bit better .

[Appin]

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Designed -- or mismatched -- by a woman, presumably :-)

Though I understand that some women (though none of my acquaintance, AFAIK) use a standing position -- and in Germany men are exhorted to do the opposite. "Pinkeln im stehen verboten!" Life is endlessly interesting.

[Derek]

More likely to have been changed for an unsuitable cheap Chinese ersatz replacement from a shed.

Andy would have had a thing or two to say about it I'm sure.

Chinese toilets don't have seats do they ... %-|[

Derek

[Appin]

The message from Derek contains these words:

Chinese toilets are just a hole in the floor, with, if you're lucky, a hose to squirt any overspill in the direction of the said hole in the said floor. If they're VERY posh they've got a proper ceramic hole in the floor, complete with moulded-in grips for your feet.

[Dave Liquorice]

15 years ago it varied if you where in a western tourist hotel they had "normal" toilet bowls. But most public loos, loos on trains and places where the chinese went they were squat ones. Sometimes porcelain, sometimes just a trough cast in concrete with water flowing down it or just chute out through the wall into the paddy field.

[geoff]

In message , Appin writes

What more do you need ?

[Frank Erskine]

Is there any truth in reports that Chinese pigs are fed on human excreta?

[NOSPAMnet]

Just got to watch your keys,cash and wallet don't fall in to the shit ..lol...Messy business getting them back . lol

[Nige Danton]

The best public one I've used in China was one Sunday morning in a public park. A room with about 12 stalls, each one enclosed on three sides with a 600 high wall and simple rectangular opening in the bottom. There were quiet a few guys using the facilities while smoking, chatting with their neighbours and making phone calls. It was a very social event.

-- Nige Danton