Describe something in your home that was broken and then repaired.

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The object I’m going to talk about is the ceiling fan in my bedroom. It isn’t expensive or attractive, but it’s one of those things you only notice when it stops working¹. That happened at around eleven at night in late May, shortly after there’d been a brief power surge. The fan began to vibrate with a low buzzing sound, and then it gave up the ghost. I checked the switch and the plug, but nothing seemed wrong, so I assumed something inside had burnt out. I didn’t want to take it apart because, to be honest, I could easily have made the problem worse. My mother contacted our neighbour, Mr Hùng, who helped us track down a repairman nearby. He came to our flat the next morning and found that the capacitor had failed. He also found that one connection had worked loose. He replaced the capacitor and tightened the connection, then tested the fan a few times before he left. The repair took less than an hour and cost a hundred and eighty thousand dong, so it was a fairly painless fix. When the fan was back in working order, I felt more relieved than I expected. I’d spent one sweaty night beside an open window, and only then did I realise how much I relied on it². The repairman told us to unplug it during thunderstorms, which put my mind at ease because I knew it had been checked properly³. I mean, it’s still just an old fan, but I’m a lot more careful with it now.

What would make it a 9 For Band 9, change “I felt more relieved than I expected” to “I felt more relieved than I expected - the room was finally cool enough to sleep in”.