And who's eaten the screws ?

[robgraham]

Much cursing and banging by SWMBO dragged me across the kitchen so see her trying to force the grill pan into the top of the oven - " won't go in, damn thing !!"

The logic of "it went in before, and because it is not going in now means something is wrong" does not compute in the female brain in my opinion ( and experience).

The reason for it not going in was that the grill heating element in the top of the oven had become detached and dropped down - easy to see.

What is curious is that the oven heat cycling plus I suppose aa bit of vibration from the fan had loosened off the 2 supporting screws to the point they had dropped out. But where had they gone - they have never been seen and no one has had roasted screw/washer in their sunday joint or sticky toffee pudding. Odd !!

Repaired from the odd screws jar from the workshop.

Rob

[dcbwhaley]

My wife is very much of the "don't force it, use a bigger hammer" school of engineering when it comes to domestic appliances :-)

[badger.badger]

no mechanical sympathy....a lot drive the same way too.....

[Grumpy owd man]

MMmmmmmmmmmm. Maintenance bloke at one of my client's sites is of that ilk. I have fitted a sign over his workshop door stating...'Head of Percussive Maintenance'. His answer to everything is ...hit it, hit it harder, hit it harder still and then run away and hide until someone else fixes it

[John]

too hard if they drip - or does she request you to fit a new washer?

[Tony Williams]

Slamming doors on appliances is my pet irritation. The oven, fridge, and tumble drier doors are all expected to close with a high velocity push. The w/machine door is knee'd to close it and the button hammered to release.

[Cuprager]

My fave is the total disregard for the consequences of LOTS of water being splashed over the countertop around the sink and down the cabinets when doing *anything* that involves the kitchen tap!

[Tony Williams]

Hah! Only last week I had to sort out why a particular section of the kitchen floor had gone springy/saggy.

The floor is cork tiles and I thought they had been laid onto the hardwood floorboards, like the rest of the house.

Scraped off a few tiles and found crumbling 19mm chipboard underneath. :(

[Guy King]

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Ah, three year olds - who'd have 'em?

[Clive George]

People who had a shag sometime between 3 yrs 9 months and 4 years 9 months ago?

cheers, clive

[badger.badger]

Thats my MIL's favorite, doesn't need to drip she still does them up like hauling in the Queen Mary's anchor chain....Everytime she stays over I have atleast one tap to sort out afterwards. Mind the long through shaft taps that shut off the cold feed to the undersink water heaters at work never lasted very long either "I've turned it off but its still dripping, now what?" "wait for the water to finish heating and expanding", UHH??

[Guy King]

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The more sensible designs have a little cap over the water take-off so that it syphons just a tiny bit more after you've turned off the infeed. That drops the level just enough so that expansion doesn't make it dribble.