2008, surely its solved by now.
Anyway, normally you can find toilet seats with enough crank on the hinge
to manage to stay up and some have a soft click position to help them do so.
I have one of them posh slow drop down ones.
Brian

--
----- -
This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from...
The Sofa of Brian Gaff...

Blind user, so no pictures please!
wrote in message
...
On Wednesday, 17 September 2008 19:37:44 UTC+1, Gareth wrote:
I can't find any solution to this problem - the toilet cistern seems to
be a
bit too far forward for the seat to stay up.

I've tried altering the position of the fixings (and even lost a double
hole
washer down the toilet in the process - and can't find anywhere to buy a
replacement!)

Has anyone else had the same problem and managed to solve it without
raising
the cistern?

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.
5.