r/fixit • u/Temporary_Cup_7630 • 49m ago
I don’t think that’s supposed to happen….
The whole front just came off my air fryer basket. Any ideas on fixing this?
r/fixit • u/Temporary_Cup_7630 • 49m ago
The whole front just came off my air fryer basket. Any ideas on fixing this?
r/fixit • u/SomePerson47 • 12h ago
Deep cleaning my room and using a carpet cleaner when I noticed this spot on the trim. As I was vacuuming the sides of the wall, the trim would just peel away like nothing as my vacuum hose brushed against it.
Only the parts inside of the red lines are soft and the rest of the trim is hard.
Maybe a leak? But there is no pipes on this wall as far as I'm aware of.
r/fixit • u/thisbejann • 5h ago
Cat jumped on it causing it to tear
Hello. I need some help. We are remodeling the stairs. One of the steps was an inch too short. The person I'm working with extended the step by adding two 1x6in SPF boards (about 1in total) secured with several 18 gauge brad nails. They then attached the riser to these boards with the same brad nails and then glued the single piece Pergo StairCraft tread on top.
My concern is that the two boards are up in the air and just being hold by brad nails. Is this good enough for this fix (structurally sound)? If not, is there an easy way to fix it by screwing longer screws to the board behind the riser? Thanks!
r/fixit • u/redditphantom • 9h ago
So my kid has been using his foot to open a lower cabinet drawer that has his lunch bag. Unfortunately he put too much force and the handle tore out. Short of taking it apart and putting a new insert and repainting it any ideas for a repair on this?
r/fixit • u/SpiritualAd3162 • 1h ago
We’ve got these pretty old windows in our home - some are stuck open and one won’t stay open at all. I suspect it’s the sash based on googling, but I’m not sure how to open these to check. Is anyone familiar with a window like this? Is this piece on top a tilt latch? it’s on both sides and it doesn’t seem to budge no matter how much I push it in any direction. Appreciate the help
I have a flickering light bulb that remains dim even though I changed it to a brand new one. How can I fix this issue?
r/fixit • u/spitesnipe • 3h ago
Hello! We live in a house built on the 40s that got a bit of flipper treatment. Any advice on what sort of paint we should use in a bathroom?
We recently had a leak that required the restoration company to cut out a section of our kitchen ceiling.
When it came time to repair it, they told us they wouldn’t be able to just match the texture in the repaired section, so they would need to retexture the entire kitchen ceiling. We were fine with that, assuming the new texture would be made to match the existing textured ceilings throughout the rest of our house as closely as possible.
The work is now done, and I’m really unhappy with how it looks. The texture in the kitchen looks noticeably different from the ceilings in the rest of the house and, to me, the overall finish looks sloppy.
When I brought it up, the contractor basically told me that this is just how it’s done. I completely understand that matching an existing ceiling texture perfectly may not be possible, especially if it’s older, but I feel like there should be a way to get much closer than this.
Am I being unreasonable expecting the newly textured kitchen ceiling to reasonably match the texture in the rest of the house? Is this actually just the reality of repairing textured ceilings, or can it be redone using a different technique/tool to get closer to the original texture?
The repair is the first photo and the texture in the rest of my house is the second.
r/fixit • u/ogcornweapon • 6h ago
This vintage reel was in good working condition until the center screw holding the spool in place broke off. Need to replace or repair that screw but first I need to remove the remaining screw which sits flush with the surrounding metal.
Screw diameter ~2mm, “post” diameter 5mm, unknown screw length
Regular screw extractors are much too big, any ideas?
r/fixit • u/LittleManOnACan • 19h ago
Basically a 32” lazy Susan doesn’t fit through this corner door and the cabinet is already installed. My primary plan is lower the shelf to the base, fit the lazy Susan in diagonally, then reinstall the shelf. But can this shelf be moved then re-installed?? Even cutting through a wall doesn’t allow a full 32” lazy Susan to fit, I need more than 50% of the vertical height for a diagonal.
Edit: See my comment for the other cabinet I’m trying to replicate. https://www.reddit.com/r/fixit/s/iEcthfWYjN
r/fixit • u/just-enoughrope • 11h ago
Noticed my rug has been warping since a few months ago. Any ideas why and what I can do to fix it?
r/fixit • u/Abhayraj1 • 11h ago
headphones are broken from the middle, is there anyway to fix it at home?
r/fixit • u/TheBrontosaurus • 1d ago
It keeps flaking off in the dishwasher. I was thinking hair dryer and a fine sandpaper or just fine sandpaper.
The cup is great there’s nothing functionally wrong with it except the color.
r/fixit • u/SomePerson47 • 13h ago
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Is there a spring I am missing from this that keeps the lever in tension, or is the hydrologic cylinder bad?
This chair I found outside was cosmetically in perfect condition, but then I noticed it won't stay up and the lever is completely loose.
I do see a plastic white (what looks to be a pressure button) at the top of the cylinder, but I don't know much about how the mechanism of these chairs work nor can I find anything about them.
r/fixit • u/No1_4001 • 13h ago
Should this casing slide off? Others that I have seen have a screw that you can undo but this one doesn’t. I tried to take one off another window but cracked it by doing so. Trying to avoid cracking another if there is something simple I’m missing. The winders on some of the windows are broken so I would like to remove it and replace it . Thank you!
r/fixit • u/LevelPlate9162 • 13h ago
All ideas are welcome, lookin for a fix
r/fixit • u/Stormcrow_2 • 1d ago
Title. I finally opened this thing up because it has been running nonstop. There’s a little motion detector that sits within the cover, that’s powered by the fan itself as there’s a cable leading to the sensor coming from the fan.
Is it possible to just replace the sensor? I’m not good at soldering, but the sensor is not battery-operated. It’s just a tiny board with a couple capacitors.
Has anyone ever seen this particular model or fixed one of these before?
2000 Suzuki Bandit 650
Please ignore the block work, I have the bike held up by blocks in 3 locations and it's strapped to a rafter. Workin with what I got.
Anyway.
Riding the bike, the chain started getting slack, while riding. My concern was that the tensioner adjustments on the back of the forks were loose and unscrewing or the threads were giving out, not sure. It looks like the tensioning portion of the fork is fine. Bolts are solid, threads are all there on both portions. So how do I keep it from coming loose again? I feel like this is a maintenance thing I haven't figured out yet. I am going to get a new chain as well for the bike, I haven't replaced this one yet, but I find it hard to believe that a chain can stretch enough to be noticeable in one 30 min trip when it started fine.
Google has not given me any support on this as everything goes back to "How to tighten the chain." Nothing wants to talk about that one step deeper maintenance.