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 main bathroom toilet - seat and flush (they no longer mae the seat and the bowl doesn't fit universal seats). flush turned over as clean water running into bowl.

ensuite toilet - seat

kitchen hob extractor fan - greased lightning in our kitchen

dishwasher - didn't survive the repair

mattressess - shot

sofa - shot

car - paintwork, electric window, interior boot light

patio doors

tv - blew up during first lockdown

microwave - set fire just before New Year

i could go on............but i have gone back to bed

The front of one of the freezer drawers in the fridge/freezer comes off in my hand when I try to open the drawer. I know DH would fix it if I asked him. He'll never find it himself because food storage is my department. Actually, if I cared enough I could probably fix it myself with a bit of advice from YouTube.

The little door inside the dishwasher that holds the tablet doesn't stay shut, after months of trying to force it and swearing at it we now just balance the tablet on top of the cutlery basket.

Office door only shuts when slammed, sometimes you then can't get it open again (takes a good 20. mins of oh fucks and pulling/pushing.)

The ground floor toilet door handle comes off EVERY time you try and use it, many poor guests have been trapped.

More recently the shower leaks through to the kitchen below, really need to sort that! Although it conveniently leaks just above the kitchen sink.

The handle for the cupboard of doom fell off about 5 years ago at least, mildly inconvenient as that's where the dogs things are kept.

None of the window keys fit our bedroom window, fit fine in all other windows though. Dd1s window has blown so can't see anything out of it. The bathroom window is full of white crystal like substance at the bottom. Which leads me onto

3 of the back upstairs windows haven't been externally sealed at all. Any sealant that has been used outside anywhere in the property is just general sealant. I spend half my life bleaching mold spores

The door is warped and let's a bad draft in, the keyholes pretty buggered too actually and you cannot unlock from the outside which is always handy.I

A couple of the bathroom tiles are cracked but after single handedly taking up and replacing the kitchen tiles, am I hell am i doing that again.

I fucking hate this house, it's been 8 years too long!!

Our skirting boards haven't been attached for over a year. They fall over when you vacuum or walk too close to the corner.

All those dodgy loo seats can be fixed easily with a blob of silicone under the fixing then tightened up again life changing not to slip and slide on the loo

Oh and the front door. It used to stick, so people trying to leave would think we had locked them in, and to get in from outside you'd have to kick it. OH fiddled with it (after several years of putting up with it) and now it doesn't shut unless you hold it in place and lift the handle up. 🙄

I thought nothing....
Then someone said "tumble dryer".

Yep DD broke the door, erm, 2, 3? Years ago?

You have to lift it on to the hinge and in, but it still works and is around 20 years old so 🤷‍♀️

Electric shower makes a horrid noise but works fine- has been like this for 2 years. Presumably the pump will fail at some point…

Until today it was our shower, it had been pretty crummy for ages but developed a non-stop trickle (no longer a drip) so finally got it fixed.

The second oven has been broken for three years after I said there was no point fixing it because something else would break on it anyway... the rest is still annoyingly going strong.

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Tiled kitchen floor that looks like someone has taken a hammer to it. Can't take it up and replace it without ripping out the whole kitchen. That's a project a long way down the list.

We have the same. Desperate to replace tiled kitchen floor with cracks and holes but would mean replacing whole kitchen!

@Mogloveseggs, if we want to use toaster for 2 slices we must use right hand side and not left. The left won't go down at all if the right side is not in use. Could this be the same for yours?

Why are toilet seat such a bad design , I have the same issue with mine and no amount of tightening will fix the bugger .
I also have a big chunk of pot missing from the bottom of the toilet ( where it should fasten to the floor ) so it rocks if you sit on it a bit quick or wriggle , so the loo rock one way and the seat goes the other .
I swear one day someone is going to find me spark out with my knickers round my ankles having been flirted off the loo and cracked my head on the sink

I have a plumber lined up to replace it, at some stage, but in the meantime the electric shower trips the fuse switch when it gets too hot. You can have an unlimited tepid shower or a short hot one.

The people who built this house moved some of the doors (I've seen the original plans) but didn't move the light switches.

The tablet compartment of our dishwasher.

An entire section of the house (no plaster, electricity, plumbing).
It's like the tardis where a whole section can be out of commission but it's still perfectly fine as a house.

My top oven has been broken for over a year but rest works ok so the door is now used as a handy chopping board!
Wet room shower gate is knackered and leaks every time the shower is used wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t run down the hall way…
The door have dropped a bit in the kitchen so you have to lift and close them otherwise the wonky ness of it all drives me insane and also the living room doors have swollen and the door handle has snapped off one of them so if you want it properly shut you have to wedge it shut with a chair..!

I'm lucky that dh is handy too (and I'm not bad but lack the strength and dexterity for a lot of jobs)

Another issue is an oven door that doesn't quite shut flush. The biggest hole in the kitchen floor corresponds with the edge of the oven door that was bent downwards, as if some muppet had stood on it. DH took the door apart and straightened it up a bit but the oven definitely has a cooler side.

I'd love a new kitchen

Electric Cooker. One of the rings won't turn off so we keep the cooker turned off at wall & try to only turn cooker on when we will immediately use that burner. At least 7 yrs old this problem. Cooker is fine otherwise.

Downstairs cold tap (loo sink) leaks so it's disconnected, we only use hot tap.

We had a dodgy garage door for about 12 yrs.

Freezer door. The dc's had a fight and broke the hinges about 3 years ago.
We all have to open it carefully and keep hold of the door with one hand while we get what we want.

I need a new one but more critical stuff keeps breaking.

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The cat doesn't seem to know how to be a cat properly but we still put up with her odd quirks.........doesn't like boxes, tuna, cream, sleeping on the bed of a night.......as I said, broken!

now thats one thing i could live with.........

Remote control to the electric door to the garage. So you have to unlock from the back door of garage, trawling through the muddy garden and press the button to open it from the inside.

DH spent £1000s on the fecking thing and it spends most of its life refusing to open when the old up and over metal doors were fine. Even if they looked shit.

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I'd be tempted but it's too uneven a surface and would wear unevenly.

Toilet seat. Annoyingly seems to be a special one that has been drilled oddly into the bloody toilet, meaning can only be replaced w exact replica, which we cannot find. We may have to replace the whole bloody toilet. We only have one toilet in house. Gives me anxiety just thinking about it.

Oven door has to be gaffa taped shut to cook things, hot and cold taps on sink and bath plumbed wrong way round for last 20 years, boiler has a mind of its own we might get hot water we might not we might get heating we might not, but definitely not both at same time, so have plug in heaters that we take from room to room, and thank the lord a light fire in living room. A bath room light that flickers until it’s been on and of three times. It all drives my parents mad when they come to stay but obviously not enough coz I had nearly two weeks of them at Christmas.