Any bodgers about?

He's a bit of all right, Gabriella but not my type.
He'd run a mile, he thinks of me as his mum.

I do love a bit of bodging. One of our DCs once dragged the shower curtain rail out of the ceiling while balancing along the edge of the bath (why, who knows?). I fixed it back up temporarily by the judicious use of two crossed plastic spoons, some crumpled newspaper and a spot of plaster. It held up for nearly 20 years.

Can you come and fix our tap Maggiemaybe?

How is the toilet seat holding up MissAdventure?

For plumbing, Callistemon, I’m inclined to bring in my glamorous assistant (DH), ever since I was hit full in the face with a hard jet of water whilst disconnecting a dishwasher. DH will give it a firm rap with his hammer then ring a professional.

There are plumbers who are still working. They are used to self isolating and all it involves .....

DH is usually great (we did the whole bathroom between us, fully tiled as well) but unfortunately not as agile as he used to be and his hand won't fit there either!! Its the downstairs loo so a bit of a tight fit.

Now, if it was the 3 way valve I know just where to kick it.

I think I'd make a 'rawlplug' from kitchen paper tissue and a mixture of flour, salt and water. Soak the paper in the paste and bung it in the hole.

It'll set hard and you can then screw into it. You'd only need a tsp of flour.

If you have wallpaper paste it'd take the place of flour.

Well now...

The other day, at work, I decided me and 'my lady' would try some crafts, so I took in a tiny box of modelling clay stuff (99p!)

The crafts didn't go so well, but I noticed the clay dried into a flexible, but very firm finish.

So I now have a dollop of it wedged in the hole. [smile)

So far, so good.

When we moved here, I bought new toilet seats. The one in the downstairs loo was so old that the metal (yes metal) fixings were rusted solid together. It was impossible to dismantle. I spent a miserable afternoon sitting on the floor and hacksawing through the two bolts - from underneath!

I think wee corrodes the fittings, mine are new and the disks are all discoloured.

Very disheartening.

Let’s hope it works MissAdventure.
The underside of my toilet seat was looking very tatty so I gave it a good clean and three coats of wood/plastic/metal paint. Looking much better.
Chuffed that I had saved a bob ? as I already had the paint.

Oh I'm impressed by that!
Also very interested, because my next project is to paint my kitchen floor.

I've never heard of anyone painting the kitchen floor, MissAdventure.
I'm intrigued.

I do keep thinking that I must get out my acrylics and touch up the ceramic kitchen floor where it has chipped but that thought does keep appearing then disappearing.

A mole-grip should sort out the removal of the screw ?

Oh, I love my mole grips, but they just weren't doing the trick, the whole gasket thing was spinning around inside the toilet base, and there wasn't enough sticking out to hold steady so I could turn the screw.