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  • #62
    Padre_Pio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,627 ✭✭✭Padre_Pio


    Seen it before in the recycling centre.
    Pulled a few karcher washers out and made one working one. Perfect condition and plenty of spares should it ever break.

    Grandad was a pest for pulling Lidl and Aldi tools out of the bins and returning them for replacements.
    They've a 3 year warranty and usually just dumped. He'd either bring them back and get a replacement, or call up the helpline and get free spare parts. The man had more tools than he knows what to do with...


  • #63
    NcdJd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 994 ✭✭✭NcdJd


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Similar to above.
    Local clay shooting club have a shipping container as a kind of club room, and place to boil a kettle for tea/coffee.
    Arrived one week to find a brand new gas/electric range type cooker there.
    Four ovens and six rings.
    Like new.
    One of the lads had met his neighbour heading to the dump with it in a trailer.
    The missus had used Ajax or something on the front and all the writing on the dials had come off.
    She declared it ruined and was getting a new one ....

    That happened us, just got a sharpie pen and wrote the numbers back around the dial area :D


  • #64
    Who2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,232 ✭✭✭Who2


    Back in the last boom I was working on a house in Howth and the owner asked could she use the skip when we were near finished. They had bought a house while we were working on this one and all new equipment. She started landing up with six month old flat screen TVs because the interior designer said the surrounds didn’t suit the new house. Needless to say there wasn’t much left in the skip that evening, with one lad even strapping a four post bed to the roof of his car. All dismantled just to be clear.


  • #65
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,882 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    Who2 wrote: »
    Back in the last boom I was working on a house in Howrah and the owner asked could she use the skip when we were near finished. They had bought a house while we were working on this one and all new equipment. She started landing up with six month old flat screen TVs because the interior designer said the surrounds didn’t suit the new house. Needless to say there wasn’t much left in the skip that evening, with one lad even strapping a four post bed to the roof of his car. All dismantled just to be clear.

    Was in Dalkey a couple of times, first time I says to mrs b ‘I’d love to be a bin man in Dalkey’ poor woman was mortified.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #66
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,007 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Feckers deliberately make it awkward to fix things now. Washing machine packed up last Christmas and I had a suspicion it was the brushes in the motor.
    3 screws to get the motor out. 2 are accessible and the 3rd is behind a solid steel backplate. Drilled an 8mm hole to give me access to it.
    Machine had to be tilted arseways to get the motor out. Brushes were gone as suspected. Think it was 16 quid for a new set. Job done and the machine is going perfect ever since.
    I've fixed the tumble dryer twice and done the dishwasher at least 3 times.
    It's a combination of meanness and pig headiness with me to be fair!!


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  • #67
    K.G.
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,528 Mod ✭✭✭✭K.G.


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Feckers deliberately make it awkward to fix things now. Washing machine packed up last Christmas and I had a suspicion it was the brushes in the motor.
    3 screws to get the motor out. 2 are accessible and the 3rd is behind a solid steel backplate. Drilled an 8mm hole to give me access to it.
    Machine had to be tilted arseways to get the motor out. Brushes were gone as suspected. Think it was 16 quid for a new set. Job done and the machine is going perfect ever since.
    I've fixed the tumble dryer twice and done the dishwasher at least 3 times.
    It's a combination of meanness and pig headiness with me to be fair!!

    It s the trill of it too when you get it back going


  • #68
    Choosehowevr.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭Choosehowevr.


    I keep a load of old Mira Showers and parts as backup for my own, never had to buy one.

    I go to a local guy for washing machine parts, mainly dashes and drums for my own

    Have a Hilti drill that outlasted everything else


  • #69
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,292 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    I pulled a Henry hoover out of a builders skip about ten or eleven years ago.
    They must have used it to suck up and and grit without a bag, was clogged solid.
    Good cleaning, and a new extra long hose and handle from eBay (£14) and its working perfectly still.


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