Guide
A Flat Shut Up for a Week
A closed flat has no air movement, and that is what causes most of what you come home to. What to run, what to leave open, and what needs no power at all.
4 min read
Damp & Odours
Something stays wet, musty, or smells wrong.
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Is the Wall Damp, or Just Cold?
A meter reading on plaster is not a moisture percentage. Knowing what the number actually is prevents buying the wrong fix for the wrong problem.
Guide
Is the Wall Damp, or Just Cold?
A meter reading on plaster is not a moisture percentage. Knowing what the number actually is prevents buying the wrong fix for the wrong problem.
3 min read
Guide
Where the Bin Smell Actually Comes From
Almost never the rubbish in the bag. It is the liquid underneath it, the rim the bag folds over, and the lid seal — and none of those are fixed by a new liner.
3 min read
Guide
Window Condensation in a Flat
Wiping it treats the symptom. The water is already in the room, and only three things change it: how much you make, how warm the glass is, and where it goes.
3 min read
Comparison
Fridge Deodoriser vs Baking Soda
Baking soda is the cheap answer everyone knows and it works less well than its reputation. What actually removes a fridge smell, and what only sits there.
3 min read
Guide
Wardrobe Moisture Boxes and What They Reach
A tub of crystals treats the air in a sealed space and nothing else. Where that is genuinely the problem, and the free fix that comes first.
3 min read
Comparison
Shoe Deodoriser Balls vs Charcoal Bags
One masks and one adsorbs, and neither works on a shoe that is still wet. What actually removes the smell, and the free step that beats both.
3 min read
Other things that might be annoying you
- Warning lightThe light is on and nobody can tell me why.
- A long drive coming upSix hours in the car and I have not thought about any of it.
- Wi-Fi that keeps droppingThe PC is upstairs and the router is by the front door.
- The desk is set up wrongThe screen is too low, the chair is too high, and I have never changed either.
- A screen that is hard to look atGlare across it, or text I keep leaning in to read.
- Stuck at the roadsideSomething failed away from home and I had nothing useful with me.
- Taking a handheld awayCharging it, filling it, and getting it there in one piece.
- A PC that will not startIt was fine yesterday and now nothing happens at all.
- A car that barely movesIt sits far more than it drives, and that is its own problem.
- Nobody can hear me properlyHum, echo, or a microphone that picks up every keystroke.
- Losing work to a power cutA flickering supply, a failing drive, and no backup worth the name.
- Dead batteryThe car sat for a month and now it won't turn over.
- No garage spaceThe car fits, but only just, and nothing else does.
- Car clutterEverything I own is loose in the trunk and rattling.
- Dirty interiorThe interior has grit in places a vacuum cannot reach.
- Bad lightingI cannot see what I am doing under the hood or under the car.
- Lost toolsI own three 10 mm sockets and can find none of them.
- Loud PCIt sounds like a hairdryer the moment a game loads.
- PC runs hotFrame rate drops after twenty minutes and never recovers.
- Cable messBehind the desk is one knot I refuse to look at.
- Cannot drillI rent, so nothing can leave a hole or a mark.
- Nowhere to put itThe flat is full and there is nowhere left to put anything.
- Bag will not closeIt all went in last time and now the case will not shut.
- Everything needs chargingFour devices, one socket, and a flight in the morning.