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

Bathroom bulb socket just stopped working I have to put hall light on so we a little bit of light in there and candles lit when taking bath which isnt often as normally shower of a morning.

@chargingbuck I feel your pain-we apparently have the same toaster!! Bastard thing

Yeah leaking after a shower is easy to fix yourself just get some sealant and a gun to apply it with and seal the shower. Remove the old seals first.

We have a shit hoover that gets blocked all the time by dust or air or something equally innocuous and causes much harrumphing and angst. The bastard thing gets emptied in between each room to try and prevent blockaages and yet because it works I can't bring myself to replace it.

We also have a toilet seat that slips sideways. The tumble dryer button is fucked so you have to bash it a few times before it works.

And we have a bitey chair in the dining room. The seat has split slightly where the planks are joined and so when you sit down it bites your bottom. We just bung a cushion on it when visitors are here!

In the distant past, when my lads were young and I was mainly skint, I had my fridge door duct taped on to the hinge till I managed to save for a new one. It work surprisingly well.

The roof. The bastard roof! (Next doors roof to be precise).
Thousands of fucking pounds spent to fix ours and I'm sure it's coming in from next door. 😭

[quote AuditAngel]@Thenoonbell which table top catering oven do you have please?

When we bought this house 15 years ago the built in double oven was hopeless, so DH bought a plug in counter top catering oven, even though we replaced the double oven, the catering one was used far more, except now the fans no longer work.

Apart from that:

Weird shaped toilet seat, not wobbly, but cracked. Bought replacement from broken bog, wrong colour, but same thing happened, we just wrap a flannel around it so it can’t pinch your bum.

Broken outer panel on a skylight
Bowed ceiling in. Bathroom where rain leaked in due to blocked guttering
Unusable shower in the en suite as it leaks at the back of the cubicle unit, but company went bust so no guarantee
Blown double glazing panel in one window
Broken outer panel in our en suite fan light.
Door missing off kitchen unit. I spent 12 years fixing it, shoving matches into the too big screw holes. Sister babysat for me and I came back to door lying on the floor and bent metal bits. Got it fixed last year, lasted 2 days!
Broken outside door to “conservatory” doors don’t shut properly and glass broke, wood nailed over it.
Hole cut through laminate to fit new central heating and part put back in, been like that 14 years.[/quote]
Hi Audit,

I have this one and the fans are replacible.

Sage BOV820BSS the Smart Oven Pro with Element IQ - Silver

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01LYYFBAG?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Do have a look at Ninja airfryers, they are amazing.

I bought a whisk in 1997 and broke it the second time I used it. I continued to use it until last year. In that time I've bought three properties and about 6 cars (not all at once!) and have done comprehensive renovations in all. And yet I was still using a whisk I bought in the late 90s.

It's replacement actually broke to but I've no intention of replacing it until 2039 at the earliest.

Our kitchen is crap, and was cheaply installed by the last owners.
Every time you open the 'fitted' dishwasher door, the kick board underneath it falls off its attachments.
Now, I instinctively put my foot underneath any time I open a dishwater, anywhere.

Shower door
Door handles

The marriage .

Poxy air source heat pump. Put in by the previous owner of the house, has problem after problem, leak after leak, loses pressure randomly and heats the house as and when it bloody feels like it and not when I turn on the thermostat. Heating engineer had tried EVERYTHING to sort it. Bill is running into thousands and still no idea what's wrong. I've given up. Just put little bowls to catch the small leaks under the pipes 🤦🏼‍♀️ will probably rip out and start again with a new system but that's a 20k job and definitely one for in the distant future 😱

Trying to open the front door with the front door key is an actual Olympic sport! It’s so hard to do that we only use the door from the inside. We use the basement garage door instead as we generally park up and come inside the house that way anyway. If we have to go out of the house on foot and come back in again, we use the back sliding door instead! I don’t know if WD40 will resolve this issue but we’ve never tried and it’s been like that 2.5 years 😩

Running toilet, we just use a screwdriver to turn the valve on and off every time we flush.

Family member has removed all door handles last year, and it all came to a head over festivities when we locked ourselves out of the sitting room.
They have now informed us that the door handle are back in action, after resting all of 2021…

We used to have a tumble dryer that had a broken door we used duck tape and it worked fine bought a newer model and it takes longer to dry the clothes

Not broken as such but an unfinished DIY job...

The paint was coming off the banisters so we paid a painter and decorator to re-do them as part of a bigger job. Same happened again. I decided to DIY and sand them down properly and degrease properly first - I am STILL doing this a year later, but it has recently got worse as I've hacked the stair carpet too (going to replace that when the banisters have been done properly). It looks awful but I've got used to it now...

Toilet flush buttons. It's been 5 years since they went squiffy and we have to explain how to operate them every time we have visitors. And yet, we still don't fix them...

Minor - cracked tiles by front door - I've put a mat over the top of them.

Major - the ceiling lights in the lounge and front hallway haven't worked for at least 18 months, it's not the bulbs, it's something to do with the wiring. I've got a torch by the front door and several lamps in the lounge although I rarely spend any time in there anyway, so I can live with it for a bit longer.

The toilet lid that only has 3 rubber 'stoppers and the creaking floor beams which run from the bathroom into the landing, so creaking in both areas even though carpeted plus rugs. In mitigation, it IS a Georgian building and rented but not going to buy a new loo seat/lid as I've managed fine for 11+ years.

Other half lol

That has got to be the best st laugh I've had ages..thanks OP

The big hob on the oven doesn’t work. The pop up pressure plug on the bathroom sink takes 388362 pressures of increasing pressure from the associated rate to pop back up. Until last week we had a huge gap in the bathroom floor where we’d removed a shower cubicle. It had been like that for 8 years! 🙈😂

All of these are making me chuckle and I'm literally crying over some of them

Aside from me? 😅
Our sky box and remote. Neither work properly, and I did make a half arsed attempt to contact them about it, but meh.
Also, my double oven broke down on Christmas Day six years ago, so we’re only using the small oven, which isn’t tooo bad, to be fair.
Also, the freezer is quite small and narrow, and everything falls out. Much swearing as things fall on my feet.