Electricity
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23 Apr 2007, 15:40
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Dont underestimate your plugs people! One day they will stop functioning and you will be left like me, without internet, TV and fridge!
It all started yesterday, I was eating my Chicken Korma in the livingroom at my nice university house that could be mistaken for bomb damage. I heard a switch and then all the power went.
I went to the fuse box flicked the lights and the immersion back on but I couldnt get the socket plug to go back up. I was left stranded without anything, no internet, no tv and worst of all my korma was getting cold and my £6 packet of chicken was slowly warming with the fridge down :(
That was last night at about 8pm, the problem is still here at nearly 4pm the next day! I did rather acrobatically climb over the roof to next door and plug an extension cord into their kitchen to get the fridge powered again, but the rest of the house is in stunned silence. Its like a ghost house :(
So the moral of the story is dont take your plugs for granted, otherwise you'll end up like me, old and cold without the possibility of taking a shower or a microwave :(
It all started yesterday, I was eating my Chicken Korma in the livingroom at my nice university house that could be mistaken for bomb damage. I heard a switch and then all the power went.
I went to the fuse box flicked the lights and the immersion back on but I couldnt get the socket plug to go back up. I was left stranded without anything, no internet, no tv and worst of all my korma was getting cold and my £6 packet of chicken was slowly warming with the fridge down :(
That was last night at about 8pm, the problem is still here at nearly 4pm the next day! I did rather acrobatically climb over the roof to next door and plug an extension cord into their kitchen to get the fridge powered again, but the rest of the house is in stunned silence. Its like a ghost house :(
So the moral of the story is dont take your plugs for granted, otherwise you'll end up like me, old and cold without the possibility of taking a shower or a microwave :(
I got a hamster in my basement.
no joke, toss i know that, we also had that once... took some time.. but it is fixed thank god =]
GL
Otherwise, call an electrician is always a good plan, since if that doesn't work then your problem is with the main wiring, and that's not simple to fix unless you know how...