Toilet seat not staying up?

I've got a salvaged one here in my box of "bits that might come in useful some day but seldom do" (TM). It's a bit rust stained but you're welcome to it if it helps, my reply address (but not the from address) should work if you want to email me your snail mail address.

The ones I've dealt with have been rubber/plastic washers: metal against porcelain doesn't sound like a good idea. Can you find something with a little 'give' in it to go between the two surfaces?

As others have suggested, flipping the little mounting plates round can buy you another half inch or so, but it sounds like you tried that.

I am imagining a cantilevered counterweight (or spring) attached to the seat, so that it defaults to the UP position, like on aeroplanes. No more getting smacked on the todger in mid-flow.

Edwin.

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Another possibility is to use one of those brass latch things fitted at the end of a pub bar to hold up, well, the end section for the staff to pass through.

Wouldn't half hurt your back when you sat down on the seat with your newspaper in your hands though ;-)

And think of the ear ache when your wife sits on the seat. She has to do it this way every time :-(

Having read this thread from day one, I think the best answer was the strong magnet and steel plate under the seat.

Dave

Well, even better. Replace the magnet with a electromagnet, and then RFID microchip the wife like the family pet. When she approaches the lav, the seat WILL be down....

though it may make a hell of a thump in the middle of the night....

Dave

Hmm - I can think of endless uses of that... Better yet, I'll get the kids done, too.

David

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Most women can learn to do the needful standing up, you know :-)

Slightly easier for the man to do the needful sitting down. I suspect views on this are set by whether the person expressing the view cleans the toilet.

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German males are generally required to urinate sitting, at least in domestic premises.

However, a lot of younger females are quite practised at urinating standing -- very useful in the great outdoors and at music festivals etc.

What about removing the lid completely?

Robert

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Brilliant!

Solutions for toilet seat won't stay up

1. Attach a flat magnet to the underside of the seat.
2. Attach a ferromagnetic metal to a short string attached to a hook attached to the side of the cistern. I used a tablecloth weight as sold by Lidl/Aldi. lift the seat and attach the metal to the magnet. or attach a cord around the cistern or to a hook on the side of the cistern and adjust it with one of those spring tighteners you find on waterproof jackets and hold the seat up with a loop of cord thus: sorry pictures don't appear here.

Don't you think that Gareth might have solved his problem in the last 8

Strange suggestions too, unless 5) was a placeholder for the spam payload.

"english.with.gailgoldi" appears to be posting from Spain, so perhaps he is more used to a hole-in-the-ground.

1. change to a sex which doesn't require the seat to be raised.

Probably not. We moved here 15 years ago and still have one seat that will not stay up. I've given up fannying about with hinges etc., and either avoid that toilet or, if necessary, stand sideways and hold it up (the seat!) with my knee.