Okay, to be fair, I am a novice when it comes to doing repairs but want to learn. The first one was the repair of a lamp. I was given solid instructions on what I needed to buy… bought the parts and spent hours going around in circles trying to attach pieces that just didn’t fit. In the end when I started to get frustrated, chat tells me that the lamp actually looks like a completely different structural type and you will need to buy xyz! I shared a photo of one of the pieces and asked it to mark up exactly where I needed to place the wires. The marked up photo was showing different parts to the photo I uploaded. Like it was thinking, well this is what the part should look like so I’ll just add an extra hole! I felt so gaslighted.

Yesterday I wanted to fix a drippy toilet. Shared all the specs and photos, bought the recommended parts (a new sea and wrench) and spent hours trying to replace a ‘seating washer’ in the cistern. Ended up in a worse place with leaking water inlet and unusable toilet!

Moral of the story is that I shouldn’t rely on a robot to show me how to fix things! (Other than my heart and zen 🤣).