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A Weekend of Small Repairs

Every flat has a list: the shelf still leaning in its box, the tap that drips, the chair that rocks, the kitchen door that bangs the fridge. None of it is hard, and all of it waits for months because the one tool each job needs is never in the house. This scene follows the Saturday we cleared ours, in the order we did it — the list and the shelf in the morning, the tap before lunch, the chair in the afternoon, the doors as the light went — with the handful of tools that turned each job into ten minutes rather than a trip to the shop. Nothing here is professional-grade; it is the small kit a renter keeps in one drawer. Expect to spend between $90 and $170 for the whole set.