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I am always looking for silent/quiet versions of products and ways to reduce noise at home, and came upon this website dedicated to all sorts of tips, DIY guides and product recommendations for soundproof living. Since this is a common problem, I figured it could be a good starting point for a...

Can you recommend any food chopping gadgets that make cooking easier? There are so many options and I don't want to trawl through them or get one that isn't useful. Things that can be washed very easily (ideally in dishwasher). I currently struggle to prepare fresh vegetables and cook a full...

Long story short, I have to renovate my bathroom and am exhausted over all the big and small decisions that needs to be made. Could I ask for your experience and opinion regarding bathroom tiles? I have a tiny bathroom and have found some beautiful patterned tiles for the floor. The walls I...

I need some new sheets. The only kind I have ever bought for myself (until now) are flat cotton sheets. OH and I have a double bed with a very heavy, deep mattress and changing the bedding is a nightmare for me because of the weight of that mattress, even with OH's help. Does anyone here have...

This is some of the information gathered when discussing my personal housing situation. thanks especially to the other members who knew a lot more than me and directed me towards these organisations & websites! I wanted all this information to be searchable on S4ME should someone else need it...

I'm bedridden with severe ME and have allodynia, as well as temperature control issues and visual issues, so finding a duvet cover that is soft enough is very difficult. 100% cotton is probably best but open to suggestions, but no silk, velvet or textured fabric. I've previously got on with...

UK - Resources for help getting food during quarantine Moderator note: This thread is UK specific and has been split from the general thread on the subject to make the threads easier to navigate for people from around the world. Resources for help getting food during quarantine and safe...

I have a foam mattress topper and keep waking up in the night too hot, throwing quilts off, and then waking up too cold later, and on and on. Does anyone have experience with non-foam ones? Recommendations?

My caree has for the past decade or so been using a rather elderly wooden-framed armchair (upholstered back, removable seat cushion with webbing underneath, and bare wooden arms) - certainly not an "old lady's chair", but not exactly modern-looking, either. It's now a question of whether she...

Thread split from NICE ME/CFS guideline - draft published for consultation - 10th November 2020 This is a really important subject, which isn't addressed nearly often enough. If you live on your own it's incredibly difficult, specially as you don't have the energy to socialise. Diabetes...

This didn't used to be an issue, but I've been noticing recently more & more that there's light coming in at the top of my bedroom door and at one side. (I need to have my bedroom in total blackout). I think maybe as time has gone by, the door has become less snugly fitting in the frame? Like...

Question is in the title of the thread. Needs to be ones which are available on the Apple app store. If I could "turn the colour off", that would be even better. On my (Android) phone I am able to put it into grayscale. Obviously I am already using the inbuilt screen dimming function, I've...

Hello all, Surfacing for some advice (difficult few months). Chair Does anyone have any experience of working on a laptop horizontally in a chair? Bed laptop work is really causing me problems (I do have a brilliant laptop table, but the mattress isn't made for point pressure when I sit up)...

My home is very dusty, partly from my inability to dust and hoover much. I'm wondering what this dust is doing to my lungs, and whether it's behind some of my headaches and rhinitis. Can anyone advise on whether it would be a good idea to get an air purifier? If I got one, I'd go for a HEPA...

My carpets haven't been hoovered for nearly a year since lockdown stopped me having help at home. My upright hoover (5kg) is too heavy for me to handle - partly the weight, partly because the suction makes it hard to move. I've had a robot hoover before but they don't have the power of a normal...

I'm in the market for a new electronic pressure cooker and I'm considering one of these depending on the discount on 'Black Friday'. Has anyone got any experience with this model? Possibly someone who had a previous model and has upgraded? Is it worth the aprox £100 I would expect it to be...

Not sure if this is the right forum for this but I struggle to eat greens because of the prep and now the Covid-sanitisation issue. I'd like to find a green powder supplement that consists of vegetables and doesn't include fruit, seeds, herbs, probiotics or any 'medicinal' stuff. I'm looking for...

This is doing my head in. I live in an electric only home. If the electric goes off for any significant amount of time then I will have a small problem, several small problems actually, but I'm looking at a small but important one, that I might be able to sort out a solution for. How to cook...

At Christmas, a friend with ME was talking about how much she struggles to write these days. A couple of weeks ago I bought her a fountain pen as a birthday gift, and she called this morning to say she was really surprised by how much easier it is to use. You don't have to grip a fountain pen...

Because I'm permanently unwell (I'm not bedridden, but I am frequently housebound) I struggle with cleaning my house. I'm not, and never have been, a neat freak or cleaning obsessive - and it shows. I wondered if people could pass on their tips on how to make the job of cleaning anything a bit...