Jeff Howell answers home maintenance questions on eroding roof tiles and electric water-treatment gadgets.

By the Seventies this had been cut down, thanks to the pressure cooker, hotter ovens and the first electric gadgets, to an hour.

Bar, wifi you get your electric gadget?

Perhaps the Wasp was using some electric gadget to produce the sensation; possibly it was a product of Ambril's own imagination.

Suddenly I heard the very loud buzzing of an electric gadget, followed by cold metal raking across my scalp.

Smoke was coming from the toaster and in handling it, Sarge spilled the electric gadget to the floor, burning himself in the process.

Bar, will you get your electric gadget?

Again I shuddered at the idea of harvesting electric gadgets from the monster's dust-body.

It was the best way to make the electric gadgets work.

Al scaled the electric gadget back on the table.