thelurch Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 I will stop my preaching now You can't totally remove the risk of having a fire but a few little things can go a long way. If anyone wants a home visit in their area, just contact your local fire stn or county headquarters, most fire services offer a free home fire safety check and will give you advice on an escape plan based on the layout of your property. Sorry for hijacking your thread redwing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 Thats ok, I've worked in the industry for 12 years, long enough to know how important fire safety is If any of you have a Scout in your family do encourage them to do their fire safety badge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Not leaving the TV on standby is another good thing to do, you don't need to unplug at the wall but just press the button on the actual TV, although a lot of newer LCD tvs don't have a way of doing this. Another added bonus to this is the money saving. As an experiment OH and I stopped leaving everything in the house on standby and switch it all off properly each night. We have made it easy my plugging them into things where we only have to flick a couple of big red switches to do this . As well as being safer at night, we have cut 1/3 from our electricity bill . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 What are the things you plug into? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelurch Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 What are the things you plug into? next doors plugs ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mostin Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 What are the things you plug into? next doors plugs ? Well behind the TV most people have those long adaptors as there aren't enough plugs , I don't think these used to be very safe, but you can now get them with surge protectors which help your tv and computers etc stop blowing up when there is a surge in the grid. We had to get these at our old house as we lived next to a hospital and something blew once a week each time the hospital tested the backup generators and flicked in and out of the grid . The big long adaptors we have now we can even put the phone line through and they have a big switch at the end which turns everything on it off with one easy switch. My friends have one where if you like you can leave the 6th plug switched on if you want and use that one for a recordable device. We have one under the TV and 2 used in OH's home office so that nothing is left on standby any more, as those stupid little LCD monitors were always getting left on accidentally. Now we just switch off 3 red switches whenever we leave the house or go to bed, and it's so easy, and such a saving in money, and much safer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Ah! - we haven't got any 'next-doors' so I suppose I'd better look into it - thanks. I'll PM you for more info - save derailing Tasha's thread any further....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Fab post Lurch! Very informative. A tip from the States ref smoke alarms - change the batteries on the same day as the clocks change. Saves all that 'when did I last change the battery?!' faffing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 I'm one of those who unplugs everything at night, not that the telly is ever on anyhow Comes from when my folks' house was hit by lightening and all the appliances that were plugged in blew up. Phil's folks had a nasty roof fire once when they had the Rayburn going - it burned wood and was on practically all day.. they lost half the roof on the cottage. Phil does this whenever I say that I can smell burning, but better safe than sorry. i live next door to a fireman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
