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

Dishwasher randomly stops during the cycle, so you just have to keep an eye on it and restart it. Loose toilet seat like everyone else it seems. And the doorbell only randomly goes when pushed.

Toilet seat here as well! They keep moving, we got new ones but can't undo the old ones to remove so stuck with it unless we pay or find a magic solution!
If anyone has aforesaid magic solution I can pay a pittance for it!

Downstairs toilet roll holder fell off and the lock fell out in the same weekend.
Kids now sing on the toilet so no one walks in, rest of us shout when we are going so no one walks in.

We have the old lock, just can't seem to remember to take it to Homebase at the weekend!

Windowsill is now the toilet roll holder, so no need to replace

@NewYearCalavicci

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

We have near exact same problem I think. Did you buy it at Victoria Plumbing? I loath our toilet so much......

Toilet flush that you have to double tap to stop it running.

Shower that leaks into the kitchen, but only sometimes and only a drip. It drops onto the extractor fan so you get a ping, ping, ping.

A few bedroom doors are hanging off the hinges where baby gates have dislodged them.

Oh this made me laugh
I also hate my loo seat

I currently hate my glasses which have no sides ?? Is that a thing?
So I have to sit like professor yaffle balancing them on my nose like a weirdo

Oh there is a few.... The dining room light - need to put dimmer switch on first, but has to be turned slowly to get some light. After 30 minutes of using it, you can then turn on the normal dining room light switch. Then switch off dimmer so you have a brightly lit room. Ta-da👌

Then there's the upstairs landing light switch, can only be turned on from downstairs switch rather than upstairs one.

Have put up with both issues since we moved here over a decade ago. It's been very low down the list of priorities.

Same as a few others here, downstairs WC toilet seat keeps loosening off. I have tightened it loads but keeps happening. I just haven't got round to replacing it yet. Been a couple of years.

Another toilet seat sufferer here. And the loo roll holder has come off the wall. Been like that for two years...

Our hob. The ignighter button has never worker since we've lived here so we use one of them gas powered fire starters

THe bath tap. I do actually long to get it fixed but can't afford to at the moment. It drips constantly.

Microwave, the start button is very temperamental. I've changed my breakfast or lunch plans because of it several times. It was a cheep one 13 years ago and I should really just get another one but never seem to get round to it.

No pressure in the bath taps so the water literally trickles out.

So we now fill the bath using the shower head only the shower itself is starting to fall to bits. Various knobs and bits have broken off and the latest is that the clip on the slider rail that holds the shower head has broken clean off.

The only way you could shower was to hold the bloody thing with one hand while you stand under it, until I got the brilliant idea to gaffer tape it into position. And that's how it has stayed.

Our hob...only two out of four rings work!

I hated Henry. My dad saw me kick him and took him away, cradled in his arms. He loves Henry and I bought a shark

The washing machine. It's decided it doesn't like opening the door at the end of the cycle so you have to:

1. switch it off and back on again
2. turn the dial to a different cycle (but do not press start)
3. wait ages for the door to click open

oh god. so much!. crack in one of the upstairs windows. drawer front under dd's bed the for has come off (repeatedly after many fixing attempts!), fridge door needs a special knack to shut properly, handle on patio doors is loose, sink taps in bathroom are loose, bath taps are mis-aligned, one wall socket is broken in dining room, only one side of 4 slice toaster works, tumble dryer squeeks cause rollers need replacing, most of the glass side panels of the (crap ikea)kitchen drawers have fallen out meaning you can only fill them about a qauter full, one over cooker light doesn't work, one light in kitchen is dodgy, several spotlights in the bathroom and en-suite don't work.....probably more!
It actually really depresses me. Sadly I am no good at DIY ( I actually must make of an effort to learn tbh)- though will do basic stuff like decorating, DH never does anything like that and we can't afford to pay anyone to come in and sort it just now....so it will have to remain in a depressing state of disrepair!

I have so many I don’t know where to start! If I start listing them I’ll never stop 😬

Toilet seat here too. Glad its not just us. Theres a real gap in the market here it seems.

Leaky roof resulting in damp patch on bedroom ceiling. Numerous roofers have "fixed" it but it reappears faithfully after it rains. Insurance wont pay to redecorate until leak is fixed...and so it goes on.

Wow ~ a three legged Henry ~ I'm impressed OP.

Even the four legged ones have full thrown tantrums every time you try and pull them round a corner.

I pray that none of your houses are on the market for sale and are the ones I'm currently searching through on Right Move !

Me.

@Mogloveseggs

Toaster. It's a 4 slice but only one side works so it's a 2 slice. Bloody annoying as it was bought so Dh could make his breakfast quicker (he has 3 slices of toast for breakfast) but as 2 slots still work it lives on. It does have a big note on the broken side so the dc don't use it.

I feel your pain @Mogloveseggs. My toaster now declines to toast both sides of the bread - each slot works on one side only, necessitating half-baked toast retrieval & re-insertion for a second cycle.

The oven. I have to keep it shut when it's on with a stool.

....and are 'not' the ones.....

The latch on our bedroom door doesn't latch. It's an old Victorian one which has been painted over so many times we would never be able to get it off and fix/replace it. We have to use a doorstop to keep the door firmly shut or else it rattles and bangs all night.

Also our bath leaks every time someone has a shower, the ceiling of the downstairs loo is just about to collapse! If just scrubbed the bath and replaced the missing sealant with brown parcel tape. We have been meaning to redecorate the bathroom for the last three years, but it seems to be an impossible dream.