I have this problem with one of the seats in my bathroom.
Toilet seats that don t stay up.
This should give your seat the extra angle it needs to stay upright.
And the top of seat is obviously cleaner than bottom of seat.
When i lift the toilet seat and lid up the seat will sometimes gradually fall back down as it doesn t seem to lift to a 90 degree angle.
This diy video shows how to overcome when the toilet tank is too far forward and the seat lid have foam to thick to allow the seat to stay open.
Is my only recourse to buy a new seat and or toilet.
Either the cistern needs to be raised so that the front edge of the seat doesn t touch the lid of the cistern and thus can go further back or the pan needs to be moved forwards so that the seat will lean further back.
I stole two of my sons bucky balls and made two small pits with a drill bit in the bottom of the seat and at the front of the seat and glued in a magnetized bucky ball in each hole.
Some mates have told me that it has not been plumbed correctly and others that it is because the floor is not quite even.
Unscrew the seat pull it as far forward as you can and retighten.
The counter above the bowl comes out too far and the seat can t tilt back enough to stay up.
My toilet seat doesn t stay up and keeps falling down.
If your toilet seat won t stay up a self closing or soft close version is probably the most reliable fix.
3 less washing times less workload reduce the waste of resources water and toilet paper may save because you don t have to wash the toilet seat frequently.
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As a bloke this is incredibly annoying when i want to take a leak also a pain when cleaning the cistern.
My toilet seat won t stay up because it won t lean back past the vertical.
The most common reason toilet seats won t stay up is because the seat was installed too far back towards the tank.
Guys if your toilet seat won t stay up if you re fed up of using your knee have a look at the video.