• Question: What's a cheap easy useful hack to use in your home?

    Asked by lorienandrachel on 13 Jan 2015.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 13 Jan 2015:

      Hacking is all about making something work just the way that you want it. For instance, I used Polymorph (which is a kind of mouldable plastic that gets soft when you heat it) to make a hook for holding shower gel in our bathroom.
      I’ve also hacked my cat flap with a timer so that it locks at night to keep our cat from going outside.

    • Photo: Andy Hearn

      Andy Hearn answered on 22 Jan 2015:

      Two days ago I used spent matchsticks instead of rawl plugs – to put right a cupboard door that was coming loose, that was nice, quick, and easy – I didn’t even leave the kitchen!

Comments

  • Photo: richard simons

    richard simons commented on :

    The beauty of hacking is that it’s a way to solve a problem with a tailor made solution – it may be a bit rough around the edges but if it works then it’s a success – it all depends on the problems you want to work at.
    I recently hacked a new TV aerial from an old metal pole, coaxial cable and electrical tape – this is quite a good one if you want to take a TV to university, but don’t have an aerial socket in your room.

    BTW, Tim, loving the cat flap timer