The only way

What happens when things break?

Whilst opening the pool this year, one of the skimmer doors – the flappy things that help filter the water and trap leaves etc. – lost the pin that held one side of it in place. We looked online for a replacement thinking they would be a standard size, but it seems not, and getting the right size doors is really quite tricky. “I’ll fix it instead” Brian exclaimed. ‘How is he going to do that?’ I thought? Off he went to his workshop and found a plastic ‘bit or thing’ he’d obviously kept for just such a moment. He cut the plastic pin off it, shaved it down to size, drilled a tiny hole in it, then drilled a similar tiny hole in the piece in the skimmer door. Using a blob of resin and a tiny nail he soon had a working door again. Incredible!

Now it’s fitted and flapping away as it should be.

It’s nice to be able to replace things that break, which is probably the most obvious way, but sometimes a fix is not just satisfying, it’s the only way.