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/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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Every time I go to one of the places I own or the inlaws or other family I am always fixing their broken shit, why do people let this shit happen, fucking toilet damn near fell over when I went to shit and had to replace flange. Anyone else deal with family that doesn't do routine maintenance or just let's shit go?

>> No.2415237

>>2415224
you witness forgotten knowledge happening
same thing that happened to the roman concrete recipie

>> No.2415243

Apollo Moon Rocket
Roman Colliseum
MeMaw's Toilet Flange

the list continues to grow

>> No.2415287

Poo goes in there.

>> No.2415337

>35
>ready to settle down
>want someday
>>2415224
Vast majority of people under 50 do fuck-all for maintenance. Boomers were assholes but they at least grew up in an age where it was expected that you would do upkeep and maintenance of things. That's why "asking dad how to fix it" was a thing. Disposable Chinese products have fostered a culture of neglect.
>>2415237
Roman concrete is an interesting case because the magic ingredient only comes from a few special places (volcanoes, and only the right kind of volcanoes). So it makes sense that most of the world would have no use for it.

>> No.2415354

>toilet flange
>routine maintenence

>> No.2415367
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2415367

holy shit america stop using flat headed screws
they dont leak it's fine

>> No.2416356

>>2415224
This is how things are. Whenever I go home to visit family every 8 months or so, I have to spend the first few days fixing everything from vehicles to toilets to electrical.

>> No.2416371

>>2415367
Never used this, I usually just stack 2 wax rings.

>> No.2416703

>>2415224
Doesn't help they always have someone who would eventually come and fix shit for free wink wink

>> No.2417000

>>2415224
>>2416703
Used to be me. I started telling people "if you can't fix it (or afford the repair), you shouldn't own it". I'm happier for doing it (it=saying no).

>> No.2417044

>>2415337
I know a guy that paid someone to change his lightbulb

>> No.2417065

>>2415224
Seems like a boomer thing. My parents buy shit and just leave it, sometimes outside, for years at a time.

>> No.2417321

>>2415224
>why don't people do regular routine maintenance like ripping their shitter out and replacing the flange and wax ring?
>fucking zoomers

>> No.2417322

>>2415237
but yet everything is the most documented and easily searchable it's ever been

>> No.2417362

Houses are disposable. In Japan they never fix shit and when the house gets rickety they just bulldoze it and build a new one.