When you check the toilet seat and see loose screws broken hinge or wobbly hinges.
Toilet seat that will stay up.
Sometimes you ll have a toilet seat for years and years and you won t upgrade them until they stop working.
It s just too old.
When a new toilet seat is installed the angle of the toilet seat to the bowl needs to be beyond 90 degrees so the seat can rest against the toilet tank.
Install the rubber bushing with the tapered side facing up toward the toilet seat.
Family handyman to begin remove the toilet seat nuts and insert the rubber bushings.
If the angle between the upright toilet seat and the toilet bowl is 90 degrees or less then the seat will perpetually fall back down.
But you still have.
Soft close toilet seat removes the unpleasant noise when pulling seat down.
If the toilet seat still won t stay in place adjust its position sometimes a toilet seat has been improperly installed.
The seat mounting bolts may not be in the right place causing the seat to lay improperly against the toilet bowl.
Reasons why toilet seat will not stay up.
Loosen the nuts attaching the toilet seat and slide the seat forward as far as you can.
When you sit down you feel the seat move back and forth.