To not want to throw away broken ironing board…

[Ethina]

Most boring post ever, apologies! Dh just broke the ironing board by accident when he was putting it away, the stand snapped off at a welded joint if that makes sense. It would have to be welded back again to function.

My question is if anyone provides this kind of service? Where could I turn…? Hate sending things to landfill if it can be avoided

(please ignore the poll, forgot to remove it)

With what you'll probably spend trying to repair it you can probably just get a new one. That one is never going to be as strong at that joint so would probably just break again anyway

Do you have a Repair Cafe in your area? They might be able to help.

Repair Cafe can weld it.

Could it go to recycling?

Try a local mens shed, they do lots of free repairs usually

You’re probably right but it is so sad to throw away something this big. Hate adding to the landfill in general.

On a separate note I hate how so many cafes use single use cups and plates for dine in customers, the waste is monumental.

Thanks for the tips everyone, I didn’t know about men’s sheds and repair cafes!

It is no more use to you as an ironing board. It will be cheaper to buy another than get this repaired.

But that doesn't mean it has to go to landfill. Repair is only one of the Rs. I don't know whether it would count as Reuse or Recycle, but maybe you could find some other use for it?

A shelf of some sort in the garage or garden? A plant support?

At the local tip / recycling centre all the metal goes in a skip and goes to be recycled so hopefully it won’t go to landfill regardless.

That would ironing board has had it I’m afraid. It probably could be welded but with that rusting I wouldn’t it be comfortable trusting it. A hot iron a bit of extra pressure on a stubborn crease and that mend could give way. Which could be nasty

Tbh op just get a new one you can pick them up less than a tenner some are given away for free online.

I understand! Mine is about 50 years old - I inherited it … I can’t put up a modern ironing board, and no one except me can put up mine. But it does the job and I’m strangely attached to it

Why would it go into landfill? It's metal it can be recycled.

Just put it out for the scrap man if you can't take it to the tip to be recycled.

Rip off the fabric cover and cut it up into rags - the fabric of ironing boards makes pretty good cleaning rags because it doesn't tend to leave fibres

The metal frame will be recycled

Very little of it will go to landfill, if any at all!

I wouldn't want to risk accidentally ironing my foot when it inevitably collapses again, even a weld won't last long with the rusting, it'll go again eventually.

I help at a repair cafe and we wouldn’t fix that, it wouldn’t be safe to use, it’s too far gone.

It's probably not repairable - unless you know a welder. But its will go for metal recycling. If it has a decent cover/pad save it to double up the next ironing board.

If you separate the metal bits from the textile bit they can both go into the relevant recycling skips at the council dump. I think that little or even nothing would end up in landfill?

You'd be hard pressed to fix that, I bet you were steaming at your OH

Take the covers off and get a scrap man to take it. Or, if you have a local recycling centre, they might have a skip for metals. At least then you know it’ll get reused for something else.

I'm creasing up at that photo.

Look how rusty it is. Not dhs fault, time to get a new one. I've had mine over 25 years and no rust.

She needs to raise the board a little higher I agree