please empty your brain below
DG, Get on the phone to your landlord! You deserve a working fridge for all that rent you are paying.

Landlords get away with too much in this country....

dan | 07.07.08 - 9:59 a.m. | #

Superglue really is the most overated product ever. I used it to help strap on my wing mirror. It lasted 30 secs

Simon Guy | 07.07.08 - 11:06 a.m. | #

Re lack of people at the Regent's Canal festival - it wasn't just there it is everywhere. Twice in the last 3 days I have heard people talk about the absence of people in London (at my GP surgery and at Columbia Road market yesterday)and speculate that Londoners are being taken away by aliens. I think we should be told!

ganching | Homepage | 07.07.08 - 11:16 a.m. | #

You should have stayed at home and watched the tennis - London now has too many two bob open air festivals and its obvious we don't have the climate to support them ho hum...

Martin | 07.07.08 - 11:55 a.m. | #

You can get new handles for fridges. Try a Google search...

If you do go down the new fridge line, don't let the landlord get you a Beko one (highly likely as they're cheap and cheerful - I wouldn't have bought it, but they are the only manufacturer who make non-standard sizes that would fit my non-standard size gap).

When it turns up, in an unopened box, without one of the necessary shelves, you will wait 17 weeks* and have to make 32 phone calls* to get the idiots to send all of it (it comes in 3 parts).

The most unimpressive customer srvice team, headed up by a dippy woman called Estelle, ever invented. They have the hugest ever bumper book of excuses though...

* unless they listened to my oft-repeated Witchy Guide on how to sort themsleves out, which I doubt.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 07.07.08 - 12:15 p.m. | #

I find it annoying when things are moved around in an effort to clean up, and then when you need something, such as a bill or a particularly engrossing book, you then wonder where it was moved to. At least when the place was untidy you knew where everything was!

It's also annoying having things break, making them far more difficult to use. Your fridge door handle is a prime example, but I can think of other things. Ever tried drinking hot tea out of a mug with a broken handle? Don't even try...

Finally, speaking of bus routes, I've often seen the 84 and 242 (the original one, not the new one in the City) going around with few passengers. Maybe it's time that TfL and local councils actually provided buses which go where people want them to go, with reasonable fares, rather than tinkering with the routes that are actually useful? Bear in mind that most buses in Herts don't accept Oyster cards or Travelcards (not yet, anyway).

Andrewh | 07.07.08 - 1:35 p.m. | #

Never use Superglue - that's good for sticking skin to something, but NOTHING else. Try Loctite Super Steel - you mix the main glue with the hardener supplied, the two solidify strongly in 15 minutes. The 2 disadvantages are that the repair will be visible, and will probably need re-doing after a while, but as a short term fix it should work.

Jeff | Homepage | 07.07.08 - 2:48 p.m. | #

throwing a working fridge away because the handle isn't working? isn't that somewhat akin to decommissioning trains because the info text is too small?
http://tinyurl.com/6rkfeg

get a better glue (a gluegun maybe?) or a new handle and charge it to your landlord. he'll be glad not to have to buy you a new fridge. this way, you'll reduce this sort of situation: http://tinyurl.com/2ng79x

amanda | 07.07.08 - 3:04 p.m. | #

Self tapping screws?

Sarah | Homepage | 07.07.08 - 3:53 p.m. | #

It's much more satisfying to google fork handles

Ham | Homepage | 07.07.08 - 5:11 p.m. | #

I have wondered things like this before - is it the landlord's responsibility to provide a new fridge considering Mr. Geezer snapped the handle himself? It does not sound like it fell off of its own accord.

I have been in similar situations before, where things have been broken (rather than damaged) by me and have wondered whether the landlord would just tell me where to stick it when I asked for them to be fixed using his cheque book.

Rob | 07.07.08 - 5:20 p.m. | #

I'm very good (too good?) at making do with no-longer-quite-perfect utilities. I've been in the same flat now for seven years and am still using all the original appliances. Most normal people would have asked for my slightly-dodgy washing machine to be replaced years ago.

I'm the sort of non-bothersome non-expensive tenant that landlords like (or, maybe, exploit...)

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.07.08 - 6:06 p.m. | #

I bought a Beko fridge-freezer about 4 months ago. It was at the cheaper end of the market (but still £300 or so). However it came with all its bits and is as gloriously frost-free as the product description suggested. I have no complaints about it at all. Maybe the Witch was just unlucky.

kenromford | 08.07.08 - 12:07 a.m. | #

D.G.If your Fridge/Freezer is more than 7 years old, then it is probably not very energy efficient. Your Landlord gets tax relief for 'fair wear & tear' on repairs & replacements, so yes ask him nicely for a new one, and remind him he is saving the planet a bit also. I bought a Beko silver F/F 6 months ago, for a lot less than £300 and it is really good and frost-free. It holds an awful lot of food, (pity I can't afford to fill it up.)The paint has chipped a bit along the top of the door that's all.

Surrey Girl | 08.07.08 - 12:35 a.m. | #

A dodgy fridge door will assist in maintaining healthy eating. You won't be able to get to the cheese or the butter....do you put your Creme Eggs in the fridge?????

Amused | 08.07.08 - 12:54 a.m. | #

Note to self: Stop writing about London and write more about fridge doors.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.07.08 - 1:06 a.m. | #

A few more people might have turned up to the festival if you had told us about it *beforehand* rather than afterwards?

Any chance of letting us know about more of the interesting events in advance??

cjcjc | 09.07.08 - 12:08 p.m. | #

The re:fresh Festival (at the Canal Museum) was mentioned (and linked to) in my sidebar last week. Honest.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.07.08 - 1:53 p.m. | #

Surrey Girl: you paid "a lot less than £300" for your silver Beko? On http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet...30\\%
204294966859 they start at £260. Mine is the second cheapest, currently on so-called "VAT free" special at £272. I think I paid more that that. Where did you get yours from?

kenromford | 11.07.08 - 3:34 p.m. | #











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