💬 Fixed a wobbly chair myself after one video

The dining chair near the window has wobbled for about 6 weeks. Every time I sat down, it rocked left. We tried folding a piece of cardboard under the leg. That lasted a day and then the cardboard went missing. My mother said, call the carpenter. I said I'd do it this weekend. I said that 3 weekends in a row. The carpenter near our colony wants 300 rupees just to turn up. On Saturday I watched a 6 minute video. A man with a grey beard explained that the leg joint had loosened. You push wood glue into the gap, clamp it, and leave it for a day. That's the whole trick. I bought glue for 85 rupees and a small clamp for 150 from the hardware shop on the main road. I came home feeling like a surgeon. My mother watched from the door. I put too much glue. It oozed out and stuck to the floor and a corner of my shirt. The clamp was too small for the joint, so I used my old tie, wrapped round 4 times and knotted. The chair stood on the balcony overnight looking like a patient in a bandage. My mother said, don't sit on it, and then sat on it in the morning to check. It didn't move. Total cost 235 rupees. The carpenter would have taken 450 at least, and a week. I've been walking around the house since, looking at other furniture. The wardrobe door sags. The stool creaks. My mother says leave the stool alone, it's old. But I've got half a tube of glue left. It's sitting on the shelf in the hall, waiting for something to break.

Fixing it yourself after one 6 minute video beats paying 300 rupees to someone who might not turn up.

Using a tie as a clamp is the best part of this post. I'd never have thought of it.