#home repair

[naomiknight-17]

I wake up and my coutertop's gone

Can't have shit in Toronto

[victusinveritas]

There are at least four kinds of people.

[doinkdoinkdonk]

via northvalleygrp on instagram

[fennriskart]

My parents went on a Lowe’s date 😂

They did legitimately need both of these items at the same time

[nncastle]

I finished painting the back stairs and one of the back doors. Wooot

[magical-mysterygirl]

Bro is NOT paying attention to his home repairs

[newtsgirl122]

So…

In light of the “What the actual fuck is going on? Oh, we all died and this is hell and we are cursed to live in a Trumptastic Clown town 4-D Shit Fit Dumpster-fire film being played in the middle of a fiery pileup on the hellbound shitspressway version of Nazi Germany.” situation that America is in right now, I have begun demoing my Grandma’s house. Which is kinda my childhood home. I’m fixing walls, replacing floors, sealing stuff back up. I’m just sick of her living in a house on the verge of falling over. She deserves a castle. My pap was a carpenter and I’m a quick learner so I’ve been having fun. But if anyone has helpful tips or ideas!! I’m all for anything that distracts me. How are y’all dealing with this shit?

[creations-by-chaosfay]

Seeing as a good chunk of us are textile artists, this is information we will benefit from.

[hasufin]

Bodge It Yourself

Cosmic rules of home repair projects:

You do not have the right tools or parts. No matter how carefully you prepare, you will at minimum find yourself in the shed look for the 5/32" deep-well impact socket you're sure you last saw in this drawer seven years ago. More likely you will be hustling to Home Depot 23 minutes before they close in order to get a replacement high pressure water line.

You will definitely injure yourself. Maybe you'll drop a heavy tool on your feet, maybe you'll scrape your knuckles, maybe you'll end up losing a few fingers to the dire rats who were previously living a peaceful life in the subfloor of your kitchen.

The last person who worked on this was an idiot. They did not follow building code, they did the absolute stupidest solution to a problem, they held the entire thing together with eight tubes of liquid nails - whatever, it will be the absolute dumbest thing you ever saw in your life.

Something which should not be possible to have stuck will be stuck. Online videos will show the person giving a fake grunt and it slides off effortlessly, saying "Sometimes it sticks a little bit", but in reality it will be held in place by a force normally only associated with supermassive black holes. The bolt/nut/screw assembly will be fused such that they will outlive the heat death of the universe.

You will break an unbreakable thing. It will be an item which definitely isn't supposed to be possible to break. There will be no guidance in any instructions for what to do if it breaks. No one will believe it broke. It actually shredded with minimal force. Replacing it will require either a stupid bodge job, or ordering a replacement in 8-10 business months for the cost of a new laptop.

You will assemble it incorrectly. The diagram will be ambiguous. The instructions will be unclear. The hot and cold will be mislabeled. Something. It will be early in the assembly process but not obvious until the end, when you discover you need to take the whole thing apart and start over. Including the mysterious clips which aren't designed to come apart ever.

There will be parts made out of plastic which definitely should be more durable. They will twist and warp during the install, and you know they will fail in a couple of years.

In spite of all this, homes do hold together and do not regularly burst into flames. But sometimes it's pretty damned frustrating.

[zoomar]

Are you double-crossed by glues that "dry loose"?

[naomiknight-17]

My Oven Exploded

*Dramatization, no large explosion took place

The igniter on my oven blew, and it requires a $350 repair. Luckily, I have $200 in savings, but I'm scrambling to put together the rest so! I'm doing a little

DOODLES FOR DONATIONS DRIVE

Wherein you can leave a tip of any size through my Ko-Fi with a one or two-word prompt (eg. 'Sleepy kitty' or 'big cupcake' or 'butts!') And I will do a little thank you doodle like the above! Note: style may vary

Thank you for reading and sharing this post!

[ahedderick]

Good morn - YIKES!

My first chore this morning was making complicated, delicious breakfast sandwiches for my son, husband, and myself. A laudable and nutritious goal, but I was hindered by discovering the veggie drawer had a layer of Slime™ in the bottom.

I pulled out all the unslimed packages (fortunately the tomatoes I needed for the sandwiches were unharmed!) and set the whole drawer aside to be cleaned later.

Later actually happened, unfortunately. The culprit turned out to be half a forgotten cucumber, which almost completely dissolved. As a farmer and parent, I have a pretty high tolerance for grossness. This was pretty bad, though. After rather a lot of wiping, rinsing, spraying, and re-wiping, the veggie drawer was once again fit to contain food. I pulled the (blameless, unsullied) fruit drawer out and cleaned underneath both of them.

Not the end of the world, certainly, but. Yeeeeegh. Not a great way to start the day.

Next project will be restoring water to my late father's house. The pump in the wellhouse had an Issue last week. My husband thinks he has the correct replacement part, and if all goes well he'll call me shortly and I can test the water inside the house while he scrutinizes the electrical switch in the wellhouse, a hundred yards away. If that doesn't fix it, we will need more expensive and complicated repairs to the pump itself. *sigh*

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Found the right screwdriver shape for the weird screws, cracked open the control panel, and figured out why the washing machine knob won't pull or push. A support bracket snapped off the timer box.

Well, more than one. But this was the one I found and I can reinforce the box with some electrical tape to keep it in place.

Timer boxes aren't expensive, but I don't want to replace a completely fine part when the answer is some tape and glue.

[cg-alligator-garage-door-pro]

Gotta make those garage doors as tough and strong as scales.