Annoyingly difficult "easy" jobs

The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Halfords bike mechanics are known for being next to useless - take it to a real bike shop.
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Totally agree, it was the experience of buying a bicycle at Halfords. They said they would do a full mechanical check before I collected it. There were many issues, but I fixed them myself, which I always do.
Anything super tricky and I go to Paul Curran in Stockton👍
 
Mr_Fridge said:
I am very willing to pay someone at Halfords a tenner for this job - saves me time and the skin on my knuckles.
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Yes until you go for an mot and it fails because theyve put the bloody things in pointing up to the sky
 
Mr_Fridge said:
I am very willing to pay someone at Halfords a tenner for this job - saves me time and the skin on my knuckles.
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I once had to change them on a ford focus I used to own. Ended up taking both headlight units out all together.

Another easy job I hate is hanging curtains or shower curtains.
 
Building flatpack furniture - if it's over a certain size or complexity (think wardrobes) then there's always something that isn't quite right
 
Dripping taps used to be fixed with a little rubber washer. Now they have ceramic cartridges that costs 50X more but are supposed to be easy to swap over. That is until you try and do it! I think monobloc mixer taps have the lock nut welded into place at the factory!
 
A rather topical one. Removing the silver cover from the top of the little plastic serum bottle with Covid lateral flow tests. I might have got a bad batch but blimey, could I hell get them off. no matter how hard I pulled. Right faff.
 
40FootRoad said:
My son took his Vauxhall Astra to Halfords to change a front sidelamp bulb. This was after a big advertisement campaign by Halfords for free fitting.
Result, sorry we can't do Astra's, too difficult!!!!
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As a former Astra owner, I can confirm this. They stood around and scratched their heads like they were about to attempt a summit of Everest on a particularly bad day, but they did eventually get it done.
 
Sammysmiths said:
Changing a toilet seat!
2 simple plastic wingnuts that should just easily screw off. However, years off Pi55 can guarantee the metal screw rods are rusted in solid and you need to get a hacksaw round the back.
Add to that the stale stench you can’t get off your hands for the rest of the day.
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Use rubber gloves mate (y)

But yeah, that's not a nice job, even on a supposedly clean toilet, as you don't realise how dirty they are until you try and get at the bolts!
 
Colgates_shaving_foam said:
Changing those led lights which are in the ceiling with that little clip holding them in.

I've ripped 2 of them out of the ceiling by accident over the years, so annoying.
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I was going to mention these!

Had three mousetrap moments with those, and some black fingernails, the springs on the clips are unnecessarily tight.
 
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