1. Can't help with the doors. 2. A lamp is really easy to wire but it could be the plug or the socket. You can buy a new plug. Cut off the old one and put the new one on. Some just clip on but others may need a small pliers (a needle nose is best for electrical work). If it's the socket, you buy a new one and look at the way the old one is wired. If it's halogen, you're probably out of luck. You can try cleaning the metal contacts which touch he bulb ends - unplug it first. Those sometimes fry a bit and don't touch the bulb properly. 3. If someone fixed the dryer, they should warranty the work for at least 6 months. That's standard. 4. I assume the plastic bolts that hold the toilet seat on have come loose or broken. A nut screws on to the bolt underneath the toilet. You can buy plastic bolts for the seat but have you checked to see if it needs tightening? 5. What is edging? You mean a strip of metal on the floor or a baseboard molding? If it's on the floor, nail it down. I can't mend a sweater.
Posted by jk at June 30, 2006 07:42 PM
Haha, do you accidentaly throw your forks into the garbage bin when you clean off your plates? That's a classic.
Posted by Nameless at July 1, 2006 01:55 AM
Ye canny take the breeks aff a Hielanman! Is this an applicable use of Glasgow slang? It's not certain. I've got hardwood floors in my bedroom, but they don't have edging, and they've been brutally abused by former tenants. In some places it appears cigarettes were allowed to fall and completely burnt out. By my radiator the boards are warped and appear to want to spring apart. And the last person who lived in my apartment was an incredibly obese man who died in my very room of his weight and once got stuck in the elevator so that teh fire department was called. Once in a squat that police has broken the toilet in, I built a toilet bowl out of an old water bottle from an office, the big kind, by cutting off one side and aiming it down the hole in the floor.
Posted by some-one at July 1, 2006 10:27 AM
Those roller doors used to drive me nuts when I lived in Toronto, seemed every apartment I saw in the entire city had them.. and once they come off they are like, impossible to get back on! Hate them, HATE!
Posted by Breigh at July 3, 2006 10:49 PM