What's the broken thing in your house that everyone just puts up with?

[Yebbie]

I'll start. We have a three legged Henry Hoover, and any time anyone hoovers you hear lots of banging and "fuck offs" as it falls over every 3 seconds. It's been like it for five years and rather than replacing it we all have just grown to accept our disabled Henry.

What's that broken thing in your house that everyone just accepts and lives with, despite how annoying it may be? I feel every family must have one

The microwave that lost a foot and now sits at an angle. We do prop it up with a bit of cardboard every so often but it gets lost very quickly

@Juletide

Klopps It's really cheap and fast to replace the glass, wish I hadn't put it off for years. Some companies do just that.

@Juletide any cheap national companies? And how cheap is cheap? We've got the same issue in one window too 😬

Clip on dishwasher is broken so you need to use an old butter knife to open. Also loo roll holder falls off wall every other day.

Loo roll holder that hapless DH glued on with no nails. Large lump of solid no nails on wall and a useless stick that points downwards.

Kick boards all fall off but always have ?! We replaced kitchen but it was such a hassle as soon as it was done we bustled the fitter out of there. How does one fix them?

Oven and grill.

I miss cheese on toast.

Coping without the oven more easily than I imagined. It’s been 8 months.

It was the land line phone as the elderly handset battery wouldn't keep a charge. However after having had a new one for about 2 years, dh finally got round to reaching behind the tv to change it.

That still leaves the tv remote. No point getting a new one because ds with SN will break it in a few weeks. We have to get up to change the tv!!

@ooherrmissus14

It was the bath panel in our bathroom until our cat learned that if he sat on his back paws and banged on it with his front paws it sounded like one of those massive drums you get in an orchestra. Lovely being woken up by that at 3am every day. It had been broken for years but took just two months of our percussionist cat to force us to get it replaced.....

Brilliant

Our clock is 12 minutes fast, we're so used to it that when the clocks went back we still kept it 12 minutes fast.

The hinge on the tv stand
The hinge on a kitchen cupboard door
The drawer in the fridge
The clothes airer

I am sure it works but I have never worked out how to turn the heated towel rail on in the bathroom. 🙄

Our microwave for 3 years, we could only push the 30second button. If we opened the door before it ended, we’d have to unplug it to reset. I ended up ordering a panel to fix it but it was on back order for about 6mths. So Bought a new one in November. The amount of frustration that broken microwave caused was ridiculous, all for $250!

The bathroom (upstairs) floor leaks after a shower.

I watch the yellow stain on the ceiling under the bathroom get bigger and swollen every day but I can’t seem to call anyone.

The plumbing system. The en-suite toilet howls after flushing - but not all the time. Sometimes it 'laughs' at me.

Also - not broken, but all I want is a wall mounted toilet roll holder. We have been in this house 18 years, but still they sit on the nearest radiator.

Another bath panel here - plan eventually to do the bathroom so just left it like that - been 2 years - probably be another two!

Kick board in the kitchen falls down any time you go near it , same with a small piece of skirting board in the hall . Toilet seat lid falls onto your back when you sit down. Toilet flush button has to have Morse code performed on it to stop it flushing.

We also had 2 smashed windows (only though one pane) for about 5years. Then last November another one went, so we taped it up. I said we must get them done when the bonus comes in. Then on the weekend another was smashed (we live on a golf course). H went out and spoke to the person ans he happens to own a construction company and sent a guy to measure up and will replace the window he broke and give us a good price for the others, happy days! 8 yrs ago they were $350 to replace, so hopefully a saving will come our way.

Ours was the shower, that dripped noisily and annoyingly. We hung a child’s seaside bucket under the dial and everyone emptied it a couple of times a day without turning a hair. Eventually replaced, but we are talking years.
Another house now: cracked floor tiles in the kitchen (don’t stand on that bit) and ridiculous toilet roll holder (just put a roll on it for show and only use the roll on the free standing holder)

@OneMoreWish Have you tried tightening it from above and below? We had this problem and had tried tightening the large bolts/screws from above (under the plastic covers) but it still kept loosening, one day realised we could tighten the wingnuts below (just by hand) as well and now no more slidey toilet seat.

the knob on my beside table , it just needs tightning back in with a screwdriver and every time i open it and the knob just comes off in my hand leaving the drawer shut , i think must fix that , go downstairs and promptly forget

Toilet has no toilet seat , I was very drunk about two years ago and ripped it off ! So the "pegs" are still in it but the seat is clean off blushes should really get around to fixing it ....

The toilet cistern has a very slight leak, so there’s always a tiny trickle of water into the bowl. If I sneak up and surprise it with a karate chop to the flush button it stops leaking.

I too have a burst triple glazed window (I did get a quote to replace the glass but didn’t get around to actually getting it done).

My 4 slot toaster also has two slots that don’t work. All 4 worked until about a week after the warranty ran out.

I have a long list as we moved into a doer-upper last year. The worst ones are...

If you put more than 7 items in the tumble dryer, you have to reach in and manually push the drum round to get it started! We're starting some building work soon so I'm just keeping it going until we get a new one.

You also can't put anything on the shelf by the front door or it falls off the wall! It's currently being propped up by a folded Amazon box. Makes me despair every time I walk into the house.

@Yebbie

I'll start. We have a three legged Henry Hoover, and any time anyone hoovers you hear lots of banging and "fuck offs" as it falls over every 3 seconds. It's been like it for five years and rather than replacing it we all have just grown to accept our disabled Henry.

What's that broken thing in your house that everyone just accepts and lives with, despite how annoying it may be? I feel every family must have one

Our oven broke down just before Christmas, it's 45 years old so there are no spares any more. The kitchen is just about to be replaced so it's not worth getting a new one. For most people this would be a problem but for us it's normal. In our last house our oven broke (caught fire!) in the first week of lockdown.

Amazon came to the rescue back in 2020, next day, so we have a table top catering oven, plus additional microware and the ninja fryer (best device ever!).

It's not about the fixing, it's realy all about mitigating the problems in life.

My induction hob.
Only 2 of the 4 rings has worked in about 7 years.
Every now and then my husband mutters about a new one, and I say, “come to me when you need to use three simultaneously and really can’t work round it with the microwave, oven or just a bit of timing.”
So far, he’s always coped 👍🏻

4 slice toaster which can only toast 3 slices. We could afford a new one, but I can't bring myself to pay £100 to replace something that mostly works. It is annoying though...

The bottom step on our staircase is broken, we’ve all got used to stepping over it. We need a new carpet on the stairs but it means having to fix the step and I just haven’t got round to it.
The previous owners hung the dining room door upside down and it doesn’t fit in the doorframe properly so it won’t close. We’ve lived in the house 10 years and we’ve never bothered to replace it.