Is it safer to re-wire everything or buy adapters?
Feb 4th 2010, 6:08 pm
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Is it safer to re-wire everything or buy adapters?
Just got all our stuff from crown yesterday!
Very good service btw.
Now do I spend a day re-wiring or $150 on adapters?
Which is safest?
Very good service btw.
Now do I spend a day re-wiring or $150 on adapters?
Which is safest?
Feb 4th 2010, 6:11 pm
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Re: Is it safer to re-wire everything or buy adapters?
re wire
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Feb 4th 2010, 9:46 pm
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Re: Is it safer to re-wire everything or buy adapters?
Agreed - re-wire.
Some home insurance policies are void if adapters are used.
Some home insurance policies are void if adapters are used.
Feb 5th 2010, 1:54 am
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Re: Is it safer to re-wire everything or buy adapters?
Feb 5th 2010, 3:24 am
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Re: Is it safer to re-wire everything or buy adapters?
Depends on what you mean by adapters. If you mean travel adapters, then this is a clumsy and quite unsafe way to connect appliances for long periods. (I say unsafe because a lot of these things can lead to insecure physical connection and partially exposed plug pins). On the other hand, using UK multi-socket boards with an NZ plug attached is a good solution, provided the NZ plug is wired correctly. For heavy-current devices such as washing machines, kettles, vacuum cleaners etc then replacing the UK plug with a suitable NZ one is the best solution.
Feb 5th 2010, 6:17 am
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Re: Is it safer to re-wire everything or buy adapters?
If it's any help we deceided to rewire and there is a chap on Trademe who you can buy 25 fused plugs for $50.....they look fine too
