These clearly bodged repairs could easily be better than the proper thing

1st January 2019

From using a brush as a rear windscreen wiper to a novel use of a desk fan, we’ve got the best make do and mend examples.

Some joker covered up a hole in a door with picture of Jack Nicholson’s character from The Shining, Jack Torrance.

In another, some inventive use of cling film stops a pillar from collapsing and elsewhere a kitchen fork is used as a car door release.

Instead of a clock getting repaired or just getting it replaced, someone just drew the missing part of the face on a piece of paper.

Perhaps best of all is someone’s inventive use of a telephone receiver as a replacement for a wash basin tap.

This idea could brush aside the competition