It is currently 29 Mar 2024, 15:36
RogerS wrote:Woodster wrote:Apologies, I was incorrect. It’s actually 300 fires a week, not a year. The biggest culprit being washing machines.
https://www.diyweek.net/nearly-300-hous ... appliances
Why don't you actually read what any article says before jumping in with whatever particular hobby-horse you're riding at the moment?
This is what the article says ..NOT washing machines.
The biggest cause of domestic appliance fires remain cookers (incl. ovens). More than 8,000 blazes were started by a cooker. That’s over half (53%) of all domestic appliance fires tackled by the fire services. Toasters were the third highest cause of dwelling appliance fires, with 1,368 blazes started by a faulty toaster. Microwave ovens were the cause of 922 fires during 2019/20.
You also omit to consider just how many domestic appliances there are in the country and so what the percentage of fires is relative to the installed base. You also neglect to reference that the article has been written by a company keen to sell you domestic appliance insurance.
AJB Temple wrote:The chart Woodster posted above is from the 2018 Which report. I posted a link to the actual report in my prior post.
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Andyp wrote:FWIW my iMac only gets switchd off when either we are on holiday or we get a power cut.
Have it in my mind that the power board circuitry is more likely to expire before anything else.
Mike G wrote:Modern appliances universally seem to bleep loudly when they've finished their cycles, so I don't know how you guys manage to run them overnight. A bleeping washing machine at 2 in the morning would drive me nuts.
Peri wrote:....
Noise drove me mad for about 2 weeks - now I don't notice it.
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Peri wrote:EDIT: I did see quite a noticeable reduction in our energy bills when we started turning off the 2 high-end desk top PC's we have here at night. For years they were on 24/7, but the last 5 years or so they only get switched on when we're in front of them.
Sheffield Tony wrote:Peri wrote:EDIT: I did see quite a noticeable reduction in our energy bills when we started turning off the 2 high-end desk top PC's we have here at night. For years they were on 24/7, but the last 5 years or so they only get switched on when we're in front of them.
It is probably true that power on is one of the bigger stresses on many electronic designs. But so much of modern consumer electronics (like computers, phones and laptops) are discarded long before anything fails, because of obsolescence, fashion etc.
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Sheffield Tony wrote:...
But on the flip side - how much electronics is thrown away because it failed (beyond repair), rather than because it no longer meets the user's needs (or wants, more likely). Phones, tablets, computers are usually not kept long enough to fail I suspect.
Sheffield Tony wrote:...
And I certainly would not leave any kit with lithium batteries plugged in in my absence. But then, we don't use the laundry machines overnight either.
Phil Pascoe wrote:Have you consulted anyone about your paranoia?
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