{"id":8368,"date":"2019-01-11T11:50:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8368"},"modified":"2019-01-11T11:50:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T10:50:15","slug":"one-thing-learnt-week-right-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8368","title":{"rendered":"One thing we have learnt this week – right to repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"43788119_1135480189940189_4856292381688856576_n\"<\/a>The EU has introduced a right to repair directive.\u00a0 One of the most annoying things that happens is that you buy something and it does not last.\u00a0 Also annoying is that when whatever it is goes wrong repair is either very expensive rendering it uneconomic or impossible.\u00a0 This in my experience is most prevalent with electronic goods.\u00a0 We have found this with a Toshiba DVD recorder.\u00a0 It went wrong.\u00a0 We bought it online so getting it sent back to Toshiba was difficult.\u00a0 My to my surprise they actually did repair it and send it back to us.\u00a0 It then gradually went wrong again with various features stopping working before conking out completely just after its guarantee ran out (about 1 month).\u00a0 Of course Toshiba did not want to know.\u00a0 Its not all bad news.\u00a0 Cars have got much more reliable than when I was young although arguably much more difficult to service and repair.<\/p>\n

When I was young there was a whole industry that repaired things.\u00a0 Everything from clothes to shoes to TV’s.\u00a0 This infrastructure has disappeared although there are repair shops opening up such as one in Edinburgh<\/a> where you can take anything or the makers club near me which does iron work (above).\u00a0 The EU directive should make such initiatives much more viable.\u00a0 It should also force manufacturers to design recycling in and make their goods more reliable (many of us think built in unreliability is a ploy to get us to buy new stuff).\u00a0 The right to repair should mean less stuff going to landfill as well.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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