cypry

Perhaps a stupid question!!!! Do we buy 15 or 20 plug adaptors for Australia or is there a service, say an electrician, that comes round and changes all appliance UK plugs to Ozzie 2/3 pin. Got a quote for 15 adaptors £35 including postage. Cheers

JackTheLad

Only you can answer how many adaptors you need!! But we had about 5 or 6 and loads of UK plug boards with about 4 sockets in each plug board. So just plug in the plug board with an adaptor and hey presto, the computer, printer etc all work on Oz power, with only one adaptor. Same goes for tv video dvd etc..

JTL

Phoenixuk2oz

Not sure I understood your question but here goes [trying to be helpful ]

We bought UK 5 socket extension leads so we only had to change one plug [on each extension] initially. Then when we got here we eventully swapped all plugs from UK to Aus, in our own time.

Just to let you know Aus plugs are available in large superarkets like KMart but "officially" an Electrician is supposed to do all your plug changes.

Alledgedly changing your own plugs invalidates your insurance if a fire occurs as a result of a faulty plug.

My Aussie neighbours said they'd never be able to remember which "Electrician" did their plugs

You choose whether you change your own plugs or pay an Electrician to do it

Hope this answers your question?

Now......where are those stocks? Got any rotten tomatoes by any chance? Go on then....hand em out....I'll promise to stand still. NOT [old joke on here ]

Wol

Buy a couple of dozen Oz plugs - HPM are easiest to wire - and spend an hour or two connecting them! It's easier in the long run than going the adaptor route. And they are easier than the UK ones to wire, too: they don't have the prongs falling out halfway through, you don't find that you've forgotten to thread the wire through the cover before you connected everything (never done *that* - you're lucky!) and the little screws don't drop behind the sofa.

Then, when you've done them you can swear at a system that puts the sockets so close together that the plugs interfere with each other and won't fit if you have an adaptor/transformer next door!

Phoenixuk2oz

Good advice and saves time in the long run. It's just that in our case we had LOTS of plugs and only one thing battery operated

And don't tell me you convert your own plugs too Rog :scared:

Looks like I'm gonna have to nudge up in these stocks. It's sure going to be snuggly with us both in there. I wont nip your bum. Honest

Pomster

we employed an excellent amateur electrician (me). If you can wire a UK plug, Oz ones area doddle. Officially a qualified electrician should do them, but no-one has ever asked.
You can get the plugs all over the place. You can also buy adaptors for UK to Oz in Kmart for about 10 bucks...always handy to have a couple about.

JackTheLad

I always assumed it would have to be petrol driven for the extra horsepower,

JTL

Phoenixuk2oz

Actually smart arse.....it runs on a car battery

And a generator in the shed in case of emergency

Bix

I thought it ran on carrot juice

sunny_samantha

Hi
Just copied a post I wrote on here about six months ago as a warning...it really is better to change all your plugs over rather than rely on the whole adaptor into a UK 4 way adaptor thingy

Just a word of warning
We like many others brought lots of those 4/6 way adaptors with us from the UK in order to avoid the necessity of changing over all our plugs at once. My husband had them connected to our laptop, etc and then to the wall with a Uk/Aus adaptor we bought in Singapore...went to plug in the camera today, a large flash of flame seemed to erupt followed by the delightful smell of burning and our power tripping off...just wanted to say be careful (and for those of you in Hallett Cove - it was on Saturday so we didn't wipe out Hallett Cove and Sheidow Park tonight!!!!!!!!) Checked the plug which although it looked very burnt was seemingly wired OK
Scary moment so be careful...have spent the day rewiring plugs!!!!!! What fun!!!!!!!! Really tedious but well worth it.
This could well be a fluke but has inspired us to rewire everything...
Susan
In the immortal words of 'Grease' - You gotta shape up...it's electrifying

Seriuosly though, a tediuos, boring job and there is no point in delaying the inevitable. The things we have in the garage that we don't use still have UK plugs as we forgot to get them changed by our Aus electrician!

Susan

Bix

Cor, I thought for a minute you were going to warn people not to feed their appliance with too much carrot juice Susan.

JackTheLad

You are thinking of her donkey. And I'm not even going there,

JTL