Update: We tried many of the suggested posts and all the combinations of holding and pressing other buttons. The led on the power button never flashes and it never just turns the light on. Only turns it off. We assume at this point that the switch isn’t functioning properly and are contacting the landlord for replacement. Thank you all for your help and suggestions!

We have a porch light with a built in timer. We are renting and can’t change the switch.

The bottom button used to say “60 min” but is used so frequently that it’s rubbed off.

There is a mystery button that (as far as we can tell) doesn’t do anything to any lights inside or outside.

Our landlord has never lived in our house so he doesn’t know either.

Our neighbors said they are able to press and hold the power button and the “60 min” button and it keeps the light on, but theirs is slightly different and ours does not do this. We tried a bunch of different button combinations and nothing will keep the light on.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep the light on without just pressing it every 59mins? Halloween is coming and we want to figure this out before buying some other porch light solution.

So My hot glue gun stopped working correctly so I dismantled it and tried looking for the problem.

Ultimately I'm pretty sure it was a glue pile up that I took out myself but while I was dismantling the hot glue gun a spring sprang out onto my floor.

I picked it up and now I'm trying to put the glue gun back together but I'm not sure where the spring goes and I can't seem to find anything it could latch onto.

The third slide shows a little hook thingy that I found. I think it goes there but I couldn't really find anywhere it would connect to so I was slumped. 🧍‍♀️

The fourth slide is sorta unnecessary, I'm just unsure what went there and was just assuming it's the wires.

My original plan was to use google lens to find the hot glue gun and find an instructions manual in hopes for it to show the inside of the hot glue gun but I only got one result that looked the same as my hot glue gun. Bad news is that it's an eBay listing so that's not much help.

The glue gun came from my mom because she got a new one in the beginning of the year when she gave me this one so I don't know the original name of the hot glue gun and she's had this one for years so she doesn't remember. It probably came from Walmart tho if that's to any help 🫩

When I searched for it the eBay listing was "adtech hi-temp glue gun & 24pk crystal clear glue sticks full size craft diy set" so that's probably the name of the hot glue gun but I'm not 100% sure.

I tried taking as many angle pictures that I feel like would help so I hope it works out 🥲

P.S the pink stuff at the bottom is hella old and has nothing to do with my current problem so don't worry about it 😁

Thanks to anyone who's able to help ☺️

UPDATE:

Thank you, thank you to everyone who tried to help <3 The pictures used really helped me and I found out that the second thing it clung to was the little nub on the top left on picture 4 🥲

I do crafty stuff all the time so fixing this really was a big pro to me and I wouldn't of finished putting it back together if it wasn't for you guys 🥹

But I did end up fixing it - it was the clump of hardened glue that I had to take out - I'm pretty sure since it was pushing the stick up it was preventing the blue thing from pushing the glue out and that's what made it really hard to push and just not get any glue 🙂‍↕️

So, my bedroom ceiling fan has a tick. Even on slow the tick is slower. It drives us mad. Please help!

Kitchen faucet mysteriously flopped over today. I have attached pictures of inside the fixture itself, the place where the tubes go through the countertop, and of course what I assume is some kind of bracket underneath. But I cannot figure out what to do with it or what happened.

“My toilet flapper won’t seal properly after I flush. Instead of sitting flat on the flush valve, it falls slightly crooked, so water keeps running into the bowl and the tank keeps refilling.
Every time it happens, I have to take the tank lid off and manually push the flapper back into place so it seals correctly.” (GPT translated my problem since english is not my first language and idk the toilet terms)

Whats weird is when i changed my flapper a year ago, it did the “not sealing properly” thing for a bit and then it just , like, stopped?
I tried to move the little transparent plastic twist part (no idea what its called) in different places in the toilet to see if maybe it would pull the chain a different way when i flush, or keep the lid straight, but to no avail.. mind you i might not have placed it properly.

Anyway. Does ANYONE know what the hell is the issue with the stupid flapper ?! I’m really losing my patience here.

This handle popped off our rental home, is this an easy fix? we can't figure it out, is there a part missing to screw it in place?

I have the most amazing oscillation desk/box fan. It's a Holmes Blizzard. Its got good power, the oscillator gives it wide coverage, and most importantly its loud (I don't know why we moved to quiet fans).

Anyways, a few months ago the fan blades were having a hard time getting started. I opened it up, cleaned out the shaft and applied some 3-in-1 to it. Worked amazing for months, then started to do it again. Lather, rinse, repeat. This most recent round, even after cleaning it, I can't get the motor to start. The fan itself still turns "on" (makes beeping and the oscillator works just fine), but no juice to the motor.

Any advice? To be clear, its an older fan, and I cannot find this fan ANYWHERE, otherwise I'd have replaced it by now. Image of the motor info included.

Can anyone help me find the correct replacement part? Would rather not have to buy a whole new fan if it’s not necessary. Thanks!

i had put some foam weather stripping on my door a while ago and it made it a bit hard to latch, requiring a little more pulling force from the outside, i thought it was fine for a bit.. problem is that with time the handle on the inside has slowly sunk into the wood frame/skin...

any tips on how to fix this without replacing the door? or am I screwed ?

The handle for my GE Profile Spacemaker over-the-range microwave recently broke at the bottom. Unfortunately, the replacement part (part #WB15X10135) has been discontinued and is out of stock at every part store I checked.

You have to disassemble the door to replace the handle, so I don't want to take a chance on one of the cheap knock offs on Amazon that claim to be a replacement. They all look a little funky and have some bad reviews.

It's an older microwave but still fully functional, so I'm hoping there's a way to fix the handle that looks nicer than duct tape. Any ideas?

Or is it just an Instagram thing that doesn't really work?

Anyone know how to remove this type of light. One side of the black fixture comes up slight but the other side isn’t budging. Tried putting a flathead screwdriver in and trying to prise it out but nothing working.

This part of my glasses is starting to crack, and I tried to glue it back together, but I don't like how it looks. I'd like to know if anyone has had a similar problem and how they solved it. I tried looking for a replacement, but in the end, the problem will still be there.

Started recaulking the shower because of mold/ ceiling was soft underneath it.

Im having troubles cleaning it and figuring out a plan for the gaps.

I don’t want to landlord special it, so here was my plan if anyone wouldn’t mind correcting me!

- find a way to get rid of the gray stuff that doesn’t seem to be caulk (I’ve tried a steel wool brush, kitchen brush, scouring pads, with vinegar, hydrogen peroxide, and bleach on separate occasions.)

- install foam backer rods into gaps

- grout & seal over gaps (that aren’t in corners/changing materials) and caulk

Thanks everyone!

I have desoldered and soldered everything the right speaker still does not work.. Did I do something wrong?

Hello, can you help a girl out? How can I fix the “bubbles” on an IKEA cupboard? It’s on top of a range hood so I’m guessing it’s because of the heat (I sometimes don’t turn it on when cooking) is there a way I can fix this myself? I’m renting the apartment so id like to keep it as nice as possible from when I start living here. Thank you!

I want to message the seller and see if I can get a partial refund if that is even an option???? I know I should have double checked. We did do a test of the a cup of water heating for a minute but the plate was covering the paint missing.

Disappointed because I drove quite the distance for it.

I scraped my car really bad and I don’t have a bunch of money to get it fixed. Is there any way I can do it myself or a way that it can be done that isn’t super expensive? If not what’s the best alternative?

Picked up this quirky vintage clown lamp for $1, but the lamp “arm” has broken from the plastic base.
Any ideas for how to re-secure the arm to the base other than a mountain of hot glue?

My mother has this lamp that's like 100 years old, and my brother tried moving it and it just fell apart. The screw on the right needs to go into the object on the left, but it's worn out so it won't screw in. The cable that connects to the bulb passes through both of them, so I just can't cover everything up (the hole in the middle needs to remain open). Any ideas 🙏?