Dishwasher fire

[Fnaar]

Was your bike damaged?
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Thankfully no!

 

[EltonFrog]

Blimey! I'm glad it wasn't worse.

 

[hopless500]

Glad you are all ok. We only ever leave the fridge and freezer plugged in and working. Our washing machine is unplugged at night, just in case.

Our washing machine and dishwasher are only ever run at night.

 

[Mattonsea]

Glad you are all OK! We had are dishwasher catch fire Two years ago this month. It set fire to the kitchen top, fridge and cabinets. It was a mess and the whole house had to be cleaned due to the smoke damage. A forensic industrial expert was bought in a he said never trust your white goods. Turn the washing machine, tumble dryer and dishwasher off at the wall every night and he gets rid of them after four years!!

It was blimen scary because it happened like yours late at night.

 

[marknotgeorge]

It was doing a cycle... the day/evening's dishes etc... I've read up a bit about that this morning...shan't be leaving such things on again if unattended (but I guess for a lot of people that is kind of the point...)

Goes to show that a lot of devices aren't fit for purpose. If it can't safely be left on occasion with just a few blinkenlights showing, it's a bit pants, really.

 

[Saluki]

Our washing machine and dishwasher are only ever run at night.

Can you imagine the fuss our downstairs neighbour would make if we ran our washer at night when she was sleeping. She just complained 10 minutes ago that my washing machine was disturbing her. She got told to do one! Half past one in the afternoon is a perfectly reasonable time to do my washing. Silly mare that she is.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

My dishwasher set on fire once.The only way to put it out was to chuck a bucket of water over.
Well actually it turned out she was only smoking a fag whilst at the sink.
Needless to say she wasn't very happy.

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 3085013, member: 259"]I think @Fnaar should play by the rules and post some pictures of his kitchen so we can add to his misfortune by taking the mickey out the colour scheme and the tiles. [/QUOTE]
Here we go : the dishwasher door with cosmetic wooden door took off

 

[AndyRM]

Lick of gloss paint and that'll be reet.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Lick of gloss paint and that'll be reet.

Why would anybody want to lick gloss paint? Surely eggshell would be preferable

 

[Fnaar]

Here we go : the dishwasher door with cosmetic wooden door took off
View attachment 45253

The second picture I call 'the burning lips of doom'

 

[AndyRM]

Sand it down, bit of wood filler, sorted.

What's all the fuss about man?

 

[Over The Hill]

The point that the smoke alarm was in the wrong room seems to have been missed here!

I go with three smoke alarms in the house and never any shut away from a cause of a fire. Also I would not trust a smoke alarm that is old so replace them quite regularly. 5 years max.


I also put three in each of my rental houses but the tenants kept taking the batteries out!


My microwave was plugged in in 1998 and has never been unplugged since.

 

[Crackle]

On another note, I've had two of those dishwasher repair blokes out and neither fixed the problem.

 

[Fnaar]

The point that the smoke alarm was in the wrong room seems to have been missed here!
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Fair point OTH, just that we had one in the kitchen inb our last house, and got fed up fanning it whenever we burnt summat