Thread: Warning: Temporary Repairs are temporary

It was that time of year - emptying the hoover bag into the compost bin at the bottom of the garden. Since I was going to get rained upon anyway, I thought I'd just empty the kitchen scraps bin into the wormery.

So, to paint the scene...it's not stopped raining here for TWO days or nights and the garden is starting to look a bit Biblical. I put on my big jacket and boots (bearing in mind I'm in a tea-dress and full make-up) and trek to the bottom of the garden.

On emptying the kitchen scraps bin, I noticed that it looked a bit...binny...inside and thought that I'd sloosh it out with some water from the water butt. Now, the tap on the water butt broke off last summer and, instead of putting in a new one, hubby decided that a pair of mole-grips (pliers) would do the job just as well as a temporary repair.

I turned the mole-grips and....the whole tap cracked off in my hands. It's a massive thing our water butt and it was FULL. There was water squirting EVERYWHERE and POURING all over my feet. Now, basically, I'm wetter than a very wet thing.

Who else has got a temporary repair that REALLY needs fixing, but you can't be fagged?!

Heed my sodden warning....and, as Tempest says.....Just DOOOOOOO IIIIIITTTTT!!!!!

AliX

PS - I've done my own temporary repair now and stuffed as much of the slimy paper from the bottom of the kitchen scraps bin into the hole as possible. The deluge has been abated.

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Such glamour!

I inherited a rather old Dyson when I moved in with my bloke. Although suction-wise, it's great, one part of the nozzle had been gaffer taped on for what looks like an eternity. When i complained that the taped-up bit kept falling off, the reply was ' I'll put some more tape on it'. There is now a huge wad of tape round this vacuum cleaner and I swear, it's already coming loose again.
I suspect the main problem her is that before I moved in, the Dyson probably got used once a month and therefor was not much of a priority. Now that I'm her, and I hoover up at least twice a week, i'm the one getting cross and he doesn't understand why.
Of course I could go out and buy a new one but I know exactly what the reply would be. "Why did you waste all that money on a new one when we've got a perfectly good one in the cupboard"!
Maybe I should get a Ewbank. Does anyone else remember those?!?!
X

Ooh the one thing I have to have so I don't go totally la la is a decent vacuum cleaner. Even if the kids have trashed the whole house - if I can have just one room clear and tidy and the carpet vacuumed clean I can just about cope. It's the last thing I wouldn't do a temporary fix on....I need my vacuum cleaner reliable.

And AliX in an attempt to have sympathy with your deluge, you'll be glad to know my youngest dropped a plastic 6 pinter bottle of milk on the floor last night and the whole bottom of it exploded. 5 and a bit pints of milk flooded the kitchen floor....lovely....it's that 'arrghhh' moment where you run around like a headless chicken trying to save something of the situation whilst it just runs everywhere and under every appliance that I hate (yes, my two do things like this regularly....she broke an egg on the floor earlier too trying to help me make an omlette......perhaps I should stop trying to teach them to be self-sufficient and just buy them a toaster when they go to uni....?)

Whazza Eubank?!

AliX

This is a glorious Ewbank carpet sweeper! My mum had a bright ornage one and they make a great noise when you use them. I'm thrilled to see you can still get them!
X

I'm glad its not just my kids Tempest. Touch wood its been a few months since the last incident but we've had the deep fat fryer pulled over, cue dirty oil everywhere, a whole bottle of squash poured all over the floor, and the whole of upstairs is decorated in marker pen. Oh bless the little buggers :-)

As for temporary repairs. Our house is full of them, or rather its full of half done repairs, but I shan't complain or I'll have to do them myself and that won't be pretty

Originally Posted by cherrypips

This is a glorious Ewbank carpet sweeper! My mum had a bright ornage one and they make a great noise when you use them. I'm thrilled to see you can still get them!
X

We had one of those when I was little! It actually worked really well and does indeed make a cool noise. I might get one. My hoover at the moment does about half the flat before it overheats and gives up. (Usually just before guests are due and I have to run round picking up all the crumbs and fluff by hand)

Originally Posted by Midnight Blue

I'm glad its not just my kids Tempest. Touch wood its been a few months since the last incident but we've had the deep fat fryer pulled over, cue dirty oil everywhere, a whole bottle of squash poured all over the floor, and the whole of upstairs is decorated in marker pen. Oh bless the little buggers :-)

As for temporary repairs. Our house is full of them, or rather its full of half done repairs, but I shan't complain or I'll have to do them myself and that won't be pretty

Midnight Blue, I really, REALLY hope the oil was cold or that situation could have been horrendously bad

Axx

Oh yes cold and gloopy and very disgusting. I'm married to a fireman so we're a very safety conscious household :-)