It Must Be Spring

I seem to have spent the weekend generally fixing and tidying.

The top oven now has a door that actually closes and stays shut. I don't know how one is supposed to replace the springs that hold it closed, since they turn out to be threaded on a rod that is socketed in both of the sides. A little work with the Dremel fixed that, and since there are two brackets each side, I didn't even have to find a sleeve for it when I reassembled the door.

Also, the normally inaccessible bits got a cleaning, as I had to dismantle quite a lot of it to determine that the Dremel was the only sensible way of extracting that rod...

Ebay turns out to be very useful for these sorts of things: there may not be much demand for obsolete cooker spares, but apparently there's enough to keep at least one person in business now that people can find him. All that doesn't work now is half of a double ring, which will be £5.75 if I feel like getting a replacement.

More of the creeper threatening the trees next to the pergola has been chopped back - maybe this year the trees will be able to come into leaf by themselves. More work is still needed, however.

Two-and-a-half pints of water out of the oil tank - clearly something needs to be done about this over the summer, whether by repair or replacement.

It Must Be Spring

I seem to have spent the weekend generally fixing and tidying.

The top oven now has a door that actually closes and stays shut. I don't know how one is supposed to replace the springs that hold it closed, since they turn out to be threaded on a rod that is socketed in both of the sides. A little work with the Dremel fixed that, and since there are two brackets each side, I didn't even have to find a sleeve for it when I reassembled the door.

Also, the normally inaccessible bits got a cleaning, as I had to dismantle quite a lot of it to determine that the Dremel was the only sensible way of extracting that rod...

Ebay turns out to be very useful for these sorts of things: there may not be much demand for obsolete cooker spares, but apparently there's enough to keep at least one person in business now that people can find him. All that doesn't work now is half of a double ring, which will be £5.75 if I feel like getting a replacement.

More of the creeper threatening the trees next to the pergola has been chopped back - maybe this year the trees will be able to come into leaf by themselves. More work is still needed, however.

Two-and-a-half pints of water out of the oil tank - clearly something needs to be done about this over the summer, whether by repair or replacement.