Wooden toilet seat - doesn't stay up

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Joe Nonety

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I got wooden toilet seats but because they're much thicker than the plastic ones they don't stay up. Has anyone encountered this problem before? Some fixes I though of were...
1. To have velcro dots to keep it up but this would look very bad and would be quite unhygienic.
2. Remove the top part of the toilet seat i.e. the cover but again this looks terrible.
 
No suggestions but dying to hear what they are!! I have the same. there are three settings where you screw in the screw thing with the butterfly type nut on it - so you can have it more leaning forward or back (sorry probably not well explained) but inevitably after 10 seatups they've wiggled back to a position where the seat falls down again. Maybe something to make the hinge less lax might help?
 
Yes had the very same problem ourselves with wooden toilet seat. We called it the willy guillotine. Changed it last year and had to go with regular ivory coloured seat for "health and safety" reasons;)
 
David Walker said:
Small magnet any good
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Great idea. It'll work the same way as the velcro but will be much more hygienic. I got these very powerful miniature magnets from dealextreme that'll be perfect for it. I guess it'll look a small bit odd for people to put the toilet seat down and see a small silver coin glued to the seat but it's a small price to play. I just hope none of my guests have any metal piercings in that area!
 
Would you believe, I've the same problem. It is only fractionally under vertical (fnarr fnarr) so the seat would stay up for a second, and then close, normally at the most inopportune moment.

The fix was to unscrew the rubber stoppers on the toilet seat cover (that holds it up slightly from the seat when it is closed), and shave off a millimeter from them. Put them back on and now no more close shaves/slaps on the head :eek:
 
I already removed the rubber stoppers and moved the fixings into their optimum location without success.
Hopefully the magnets will do the trick. One other solution would be to get very tight hinges but I guess they'd loosen eventually anyway.
 
Or another solution, dare I say it, is to sit down.

Not because of some femino-centric oppression of us up-standing males, but because

1. You can have a rest
2. It is good exercise for your leg muscles
3. It is good exercise for your abdominal muscles

(At least that's what I tell my wife)
 
These wooden seats are really hard to keep clean and even after wiping them with cleaning fluids,you still get a smell of urine,
 
Joe Nonety said:
Great idea. It'll work the same way as the velcro but will be much more hygienic. I got these very powerful miniature magnets from dealextreme that'll be perfect for it. I guess it'll look a small bit odd for people to put the toilet seat down and see a small silver coin glued to the seat but it's a small price to play. I just hope none of my guests have any metal piercings in that area!
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Hmmmm! Peeing in a magnetic field. I wonder if you should use two hands after drinking Iron Bru?
 
The magnet trick worked. Thanks DW. The magnets are only 1 cm in diameter so aren't very noticeable. The only thing is that they're so strong that you need to use two hands to separate the toilet seat from the cover when putting the seat down. I'd also recommend to use a marker to mark which sides of the magnet attract each other and which repel each other before you start as it can be very tricky to reverse after supergluing the magnets! (by reverse I mean ungluing the magnets not reverse their north and south poles!)
 
I wonder if the water flushing down the bowl will now go in an anticlockwise direction because of the magnetic fields?

As you said, I hope none of your friends have a Prince Albert, especially when you said that it takes two hands to prise the things apart. :D

I dare not think about female piercings :eek:
 
One thing to look out for on a wooden seat is to see how many rubber feet there are under the seat. Cheap ones only have two and if you sit too far back the whole seat may crack, making them unusable as they then tend to pinch. Good one's have four rubber feet.
 
Alternative solution: let's say the toilet points towards the front of the house. Jack up the front of the house a few inches, so that everything in the gaff, including the toilet, is tilted slightly back ... hey presto, the seat will stay up.
 
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