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up at 6! because the GF left that stupid smelly shit, energy wasting piece of crap that pumps crap in to the clean air in the wall the again, even after i told her its killing me.(asthma sufferer!)
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Why not just open the windows then?
Why are peoples houses so smelly they feel the need for plug in air fresheners running continuously?
Do you own especially pongy dogs? Otherwise, no need for the damn things. As a woman I feel shamed by other women's obsession with them. Ditch the girlfriend, it can't be healthy and will only end in tears.
<puts work head on>
They are a fire hazard, been to a few house fires where they were the cause of a burnt out room. I wouldn't use, however if you must unplug it after use. DO NOT leave plugged in.
<takes work head off>
Drain out perfume. Replace with something manky. (wee?!)
She'll soon stop using it 🙂
+1 with bruneep, wouldn't have one in house!
High up on my list of uneccessary and harmful products, which also includes:
Shower gel (whats wrong with soap ?)
Fabric softener (why ?)
Any kind of room deodoriser (don't do anything smelly)
Clothes dryers (thats just lazy and disorganised and wrecks clothes)
Dishwashers (again, lazy)
So all go home, drink a glass of water and put a jersey on !
Someone tell me more about the mode of failure that leads to burned out rooms please. Do they ignite themselves or flammable items near by?
Clothes dryers (thats just lazy and disorganised and wrecks clothes)
why is it lazy to dry clothes? do you use a mangle or something which requires a lot of effort? And, If you're going to suggest using a clothes horse / rads to dry clothes when it's wet outside, I don't want my house to look like a Chinese laundry.
On a more serious note, these things are harmful if you have babies or children in the house.
Also if you're trying to conceive they're bad,as are any perfumes, aftershaves, smelly things in genera.
Get rid. I really dislike them.
Hels - do you mean drying machines? In winter ours are dryed on a clothes horse in a spare bedroom. In summer outside.
For drying clothes, I prefer to just crank the central heating up a few degrees and open a couple of windows to let the moisture escape.
[i]For drying clothes, I prefer to just crank the central heating up a few degrees and open a couple of windows to let the moisture escape.[/i]
LOL! So you open the windows (and let heat out), and then turn the heating up!!
You may as well just whack the tumble drier on! 🙂
Don't really get the "clothes dryer" thing as being lazy.
We only have the heating on a few hours in the day when we are at home. I use the radiators to dry the clothes that cannot be tumble-dried.
I'd love to know what the "unlazy" method is! 8)
Hate plug-in airfresheners. Just throw the thing away. If she buys more throw those away too. That's what we do at work when they appear in the staff-room!
whats wrong with soap? Well it removes the natural oils from your skin for a start... Shower gels can be moisturising, they lather better in hard water areas and they have a wider range of smells, keeping men folk like me happier as we don't smell of flowers.
muffin-man...I have a feeling druidh was not exactly being truthful!! 8)
clothes drying - I have the boiler in a large walk in cupboard and the cupboard well ventilated and filled with drying racks - drys two washing machine fulls of clothes in 12 - 24 hrs using waste heat from the boiler
hungry monkey - Memberwhats wrong with soap? Well it removes the natural oils from your skin for a start... Shower gels can be moisturising, they lather better in hard water areas and they have a wider range of smells, keeping men folk like me happier as we don't smell of flowers.
Shower gels are just detergents and the perfumes are bad for you. Simple soap is best
All well and good TJ...what we did in our old house. But we have a combi-boiler so no tank of hot water!
[i]muffin-man...I have a feeling druidh was not exactly being truthful!!
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Doh! - Its too early on a Sunday morning to think straight!
The wifes away all weekend and I've got 'women's' jobs to do today - including drying clothes! (on airer in front of radiators).
angela - thats with a combi. Its the boiler not the hot water tank
Oh, fairy nuff TJ!
Sadly, our boiler was fitted in our out-house, 6 feet off the ground. I can just about reach cross all the bikes/tools/tyres to turn it on!! 8)
Anyone want to tell me by what mode this plug ins start fires?
Clothes drying - sorry I forget British English sometimes - I mean the evil hot thing that sucks up electricity and burns your lycra. Is "tumble dryer" the right colloquialism ?
1. plan ahead - don't be in a position to need something dry immediately
2. hang clothes on washing line
3. if its raining, hang clothes on "clothes horse" "indoors" or drying rack inside your dwelling.
Bloody brilliant! 'they cause fires they do'
aghhh I'm away from my batchelor pad now for 4 days!!
I look on them as my friends as they make my grotty pad smell delightful !! But now hear they are the work of fire demons!
Damn and blast I'm confused !
Brack - radical I know, but how about cleaning and tidying your house ? Then you might not need the unsmelley things. Or even better, pay somebody else to do it, best of both worlds.
hels...do you actually live in the UK?
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Anyone want to tell me by what mode this plug ins start fires? [/i]
There's an urban myth email that floats around, if it was true and caused so many fires then it should have been reported and investigated. Bruneep is a plastic heed but I wonder what he means by a few?
Hels you are indeed my guardian angel... Pure genius!! But how can I be 100% sure you are not of the fire alliance ? How can I be sure that these house cleaning people of which you speak are not also intending to fill my house with the evil red and yellow dancing people with their carelessness and evil ways?
Risk risk risk
Now I am even more confused!!
Soap is the work of the devil. It dries out my skin completely, so I end up with dry, red scaly skin. I use L'Oreal - because I'm worth it.
Argyll Wardrobes is what you need - big cupboard with 300 watt greenhouse heater at the bottom, plus little grill at top and bottom of door. Robert is yer mother's brother!
I'm not keen on soaps either, they trash my skin completely, but I'm not particularly smell either so dont seem to have much problem. I use the little wall smellies because our flat has a slight (inherent, unfixable) damp problem and gets a bit musty from time to time, and if you cook fish or a particularly strong smelling meal it's not always cleared by just opening the windows.
Failure mode of the heated ones - only thing I can see is if the heating coils shorted internally but the coils are set in a non-conducting resin and can't contact each other, and if they did they'd go bang fairly quickly (seconds), but then they'd blow a fuse fairly rapidly and not set themselves on fire anyway. I've thought about this a lot and really struggled to see any circumstances where this might happen. Under normal operation they get to about 35 degrees C.
I don't get peoples complete dislike of them either, seems like a very small thing to get upset over (unless it gives you asthma of course!)
Everyone's about scare mongering and worrying over the slightest possible cause of the slightest possible minor irritation these days. As said above, they'd have been black flagged and spread across the news if more than a couple had failed and been *proven* to have caused house fires.
The one showing up in Google coffeeking is surprisingly from that normal panic free paper the Daily Mail. It would seem though that the bint involved had stacked some closthes in front it so guess what it over heated and set fire to the clothes, not the house mind.
Ahh that would be a failure mode of the human, not the electrical item 🙂
Shower gels are just detergents and the perfumes are bad for you. Simple soap is best
as i said though, soap doesn't lather particularly well where i am.
if shower gel was that bad it would be taken off the shelves. my skin feels substantially better after using shower gel than it does after soap.
I'd like to add some thing to the useless list....
Digital picture frames... wtf? what a waste of power.
That's okay, the one in my garage is about a foot away from anything except the socket and the breeze block wall!
I like the subtle shift between lavender and camomile.
The boss objects to the smell of thinners when he washing comes out of the machine!
Perfectly useful little entities, use sod all power (a few watts, when in use) , especially less than switching on a PC and hold more pictures than you could easily store otherwise. Yup, how stupid.
why not just print it out and there you are. 😉
Because prints fade. Because printing takes money, time, electricity (same as the frame) and needs storing somewhere safe. I really can't see what you find negative about them.
With digi frames you can put up different albums depending on what you want to look through, and you look through images you'd never normally take out of the draw for years which is nicer than taking them and then storing them because it's a faff to get the album out.
hels - Member
Clothes drying - sorry I forget British English sometimes - I mean the evil hot thing that sucks up electricity and burns your lycra. Is "tumble dryer" the right colloquialism ?1. plan ahead - don't be in a position to need something dry immediately
2. hang clothes on washing line
3. if its raining, hang clothes on "clothes horse" "indoors" or drying rack inside your dwelling.
You so obviously don't have two kids and live in Wales!
hels - you're probably one of those people who's clothes stink like the 14 year old unwashed goths of the world. I can't believe the number of people who think indoor slow drying near a radiator is even remotely close to drying clothes properly. They end up smelling musty and damp and horrible. I've had 1 day here in the last 6 weeks that wasn't so misty and damp that I could put clothes out to dry; they froze instead.
Tumble drier is the only way for me I'm afraid.
Still, I still manage to have an electricity bill of £8.50 a month, so can't exactly be too power hungy 😀 And I've no idea what model of drier you've used, but mine doesnt wreck clothes.
I wash dishes by hand, but only because I have to - dishwashers make far more sense.
Shower gel (whats wrong with soap ?
Soap contains palm oil.
Palm oil is derived from palm nuts grown in Indonesia.
The land thus used has been obtained by destroying vast swathes of virgin rainforest, putting Orang-Utangs and many other indigenous creatures at risk of imminent extinction.
Palm oil is also present in many other products, like biscuits, for instance (but not, I'm pleased to note, low-fat Hobnobs).
Soap contains palm oil.
Not all soaps.
Anyone want to tell me by what mode this plug ins start fires?There's an urban myth email that floats around, if it was true and caused so many fires then it should have been reported and investigated. Bruneep is a plastic heed but I wonder what he means by a few?
I'd rather be a ****ing plastic heed 🙄 than a ninga turtle. 😉
So why do they go on fire, not entirely sure of the exact fault process.
The main problems seem that they overheat causing the plastic that they are made of to melt dripping onto another surface (carpet, furnishing, papers etc) This in-turn causes a secondary fire, which if not detected can rapidly develop into something more serious.
I think off the top of my head I can recall 3 fires that I have personally attended caused by these demon things, I could probably find out through work by looking at the stats as to how many others there have been.
As for the dozy bint in the DM well who has a plug socket above their cooker hob? I suspect there is more to that than we know, was there something on hob that was left on (clean mark on tiled wall) or was it the radiated heat from the hob that caused that one.
As for urban myth email, believe what you want to but as I said before I would NEVER have them in the house because of the end results I have seen, same for these scented candles left unattended.
You pays your money, you takes your chances.
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They are a frankly bizarre device, nasty, reeking waste of time. If one requires a nice ambient smell, burn some insence.
We use a dishwasher, it's more economical when full than doing the washing up by hand for 4 people constantly, as for tumble driers, used when dry clothes are required fast, not a regular thing.
Hehe ninja turtle like it.
coffeeking - I love putting out a wet teashirt on the line in winter and the fun of it being a frozen shape is very amusing.
Bit girly this - you can gather the lavender flowers, dry them and pop them into a little lavender bag, 'tis what my granny did.
coffeeking - my clothes do not smell - charming from somebody I have never met ! But then I always make sure I don't live in a damp house, can't stand it, learned that lesson in cheap student flats.
@ bunnyhop - or stick an orange full of cloves and stuff it in yr clothes drawer - it doesn't rot and fragrances the linen (and I'm a burly 50 year old bloke totally at ease with my sexuality :-))
coffeeking - I love putting out a wet teashirt on the line in winter and the fun of it being a frozen shape is very amusing.
ah! but have you tried putting a folded T shirt on baking tray, topping it up with water and putting it in the freezer?
Oh how we laughed at our work colleague, he never saw the funny side of that.
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My friend once left his riding gear in mid winter during a visit to Coed Y Brenin, how we laughed when all his clothes came out of the boot frozen solid in the correct shapes.
Turned his banana's black too!
>coffeeking - my clothes do not smell
Same here.
When we lived in a flat - generally dried the clothes on an airer in the bathroom, a few things in the drier or just to fluff up towels
When we lived in our last house - couple of airers in the back bedroom
Now - a couple of airers in the (somewhat larger) kitchen - which until recently had little heating in it, but was well insulated, so it's never been exactly a warm room.
Oh, and why anyone needs air freshners - plug-in or otherwise - beats me - just open the bloomin' windows if necessary. They're just more consumerist rubbish like fabric softener..
I use all of the above,can't stand all this eco pc crap. Use what you like who give's a toss?