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

A drippy shower
A kitchen tap that leaks
Bedroom door that DH kicked a hole through
Kitchen floor tiles are broken
Internal doors that don't close properly!
Oh and when it heavily rains we get a slow drip of rainwater in the kitchen😔 (happens maybe about once a year but no idea how it's coming in or how to stop it!)

Good to see this thread pop up as I am delighted that I’ve finally ticked the wobbly toilet seat off my list (from January).
I slightly ‘over fixed’ it so now it’s not quite flush to the toilet, but it doesn’t wobble.

I wish I could say this thread prompted me into action months ago, but actually my son brought his gf round in summer and I saw the state of it with fresh eyes and fixed it.

Name changed but bath panel is still attacking me regularly....

The bathroom tap that has leaked for 3 years, and randomly goes hot for no reason.

The bathroom lock that opens and closed with a pair of scissors which are kept by it for this reason.🤷🏼‍♀️Why we do y get a new lock is beyond me really.😁

Actually, bought a catch but couldn't make it work!

Yes, I've already done that, it had its 10th birthday before the incident!

We had a huge whole in the plaster outside our back door for about 5 years from when someone was investigating a leak
It was too small a hole to justify doing the entire wall
Also the back door handle was on backwards so guests could never get out - as we were used to it we turned it the "right" way.
Renovated and put in a massive dangly chandelier light fixture with hard to find tiny bulbs and also hard to reach to change it so gradually became less and less light
Garage full of things we bought and didn't return still in boxes
Had a broken jet ski on the drive for so long that it was on google maps
I could go on

I know this is an old thread but it's made me feel so much better that it's not just us being useless and lazy ! Trouble is if its something you can find a way to live with there is no motivation to fix it ! Laying on the sofa moaning about broken stuff is more normal in our house

Bathroom door that has scraped on the ground with a loud noise for the last 10 years because of a missing hinge. We have family staying so I just fixed it, it took me 5 minutes.

I replaced the little turntable thing in the microwave. 👍🏻

The bathroom door.. can't close it, as the handle doesn't work to open it again so you'll get stuck. We keep a screwdriver in the bathroom in case anyone forgets. I am aware that it would take about half an hour to change the handle. It's been like this for 4 years now.

We also went without a light in the bathroom for almost a decade, so we do have form for this, and it always seems to be the bathroom for some reason!

Kitchen drawer that lists to one side, and annoys me disproportionately, and DH cannot/will not fix it, and person who said they would fix it in November is now denying knowledge (not just that job, a few of them that would make it worthwhile). I've left it this long as I naively assumed they'd just got behind, and would let me know when they could do it!
Also DH. Should have asked for proof of MOT before purchase. Joking not joking

My dishwasher is being fixed on Thursday!!! I feel giddy with excitement!

flat roof above downstairs lav that leaks when the rain comes at a certain angle we keep a large bucket thingy in place all the time. loads of misted windows, loo lid thats cracked in half but not completely bust

On the face of it, that appears quite a feat. I'm thinking model type, discontinued model, locating spare parts... I'm exhausted already. Congratulations!

I Googled 'Howdens microwave+spare' parts.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy. 🍋

And the best bit was it was less than a fiver, i think! 👍🏻

Our pop up bin lid that has to be treated very gently or it jams shut. I always know if my son or daughter have a friend over as the bin will be jammed shut. Also the supposedly pop up plugs in the sink that the family know should NEVER be pushed down. Also the temperature control in the shower that the family know cannot be adjusted or it sticks at ‘scalding lava setting’…

My bed base was broke on one side for 6 months and l kept rolling down my mattress to one side.. bought a new one yesterday and what a difference.. don't know why l didn't buy one sooner.. because my thick memory foam mattress was £800 from JYSK..

I eventually got my lounge main light replaced last year after it had died about 14 years ago. Just used side lamps.

Definitely me that's broken

I love this thread. Since I originally read it I've finally got fed up with scrubbing mould off the bathroom ceiling, and got an electrician in to replace the extractor fan. More to the point, I bundled up all the other tiny electrical jobs around the house and got him to do them as well, so now I no longer have masking tape over the light switch in the upstairs landing to remind me that it's live. It was there for five years.

Still remaining, the door to the eaves storage which is held shut by a couple of elastic hair bands (half hour job, CBA), the seven bookshelves put up the wrong distance apart which need moving down five centimetres each (three hour job and fiddly), and the dishwasher that protrudes three centimetres out from the worktop (fixing that would require taking up a concrete floor and moving the pipe work beneath).

My top tip is the eSpares website. The sense of achievement when you send them eight pounds fifty seven pence and receive a replacement turntable for your obsolete microwave/bottle shelf for ten year old fridge/seal for washing machine door or whatever is amazing.

OP this just had be literally crying with tears in my hotel room. DP said we’d get a knock at the door asking if everything was okay. It absolutely tickled me!!! Thanks for the laughs

Today I chipped off the horrible broken tiny tiles around where the bath meets the wall,and replaced them with new ones. Took about an hour and a half and the difference is staggering.

I've started looking for quotes to deal with the water damaged, efflorescent plaster, so I can start setting up my LPs and CDs near the stereo

It's bee at least 5 years of looking at patchy walls, where I've sanded, followed YouTube tutorials, used expensive stain stoppers and sanded some more

Enough