The dangers of moving house ...

(eq-Shrike) #1

I moved house at the weekend. My first morning in the new house I went downstairs , turned the gas on and put the kettle on so I could make some tea. I then went upstairs to get a few things …

Upstairs I noticed a strange smell … kind of like burning. I went downstairs to where the smell was coming from, opened the kitchen door to be greeted by the sight of a kettle in flames on the hob :open_mouth:

Like a complete noob I had put an electric kettle (metal top, plastic bottom) on the fire ! My old kettle was a metal one that you put on the stove … I had forgotten …oops

cough

Time to get a new kettle …

(Loffy) #2

Phew, good thing you found it in time!
I once saw one episode of The Ozbornes on the TV, and Kelly did the same thing there. She didn’t look too happy when daddy Ozzy lectured her afterwards about fire safety. :slight_smile:
//L.

(eRRoLfLyNN) #3

lol Ozzy is a fine exponent of Health & Safety! :]

Shrike, you’re lucky it ain’t time to get a NEW new house! :moo:

PS was your old kettle one that would whistle?

(Sick Boy) #4

Must remind this for when I get a new house and/or kettle

(EB) #5

I have said a uni-religious prayer for the kettle. RIP

(eRRoLfLyNN) #6

UPSIDE -DOWN KETTLES, RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!!! :o

(eq-Shrike) #7

yeah it was a really old fashioned one that whistled when it boiled - kind of charming but a right pain when you are upstairs sorting something out and have to hoof it downstairs to turn ivor the flippin’ engine off …

(lapa) #8

So, did this new house come with a kettle or what?
Sounds like a cheap marketing scheme. Buy this house now, and a get a shiny electric kettle absulutely free!!! (that you subsequently torch on your first moring, there goes the only reason you got this house, instead of the nice loft that came with just a stupid key chain and a sticker)

(eq-Shrike) #9

I’m renting so the kettle will have to be replaced - good job it was a cheapy one from Woolworths … :slight_smile:

(Salteh) #10

We have an evil electric kettle too…
It’s supposed to switch off by itself… automatically etc…
But it doesn’t… usually :nag:

So you could switch on the kettle, run upstairs for a few minutes, come back down and find out that the that once was quite happily living in your kettle disappeared into the air… and the entire kitchen area near the kettle is wet :nag:

(EB) #11

::Random thought::
A kettle with the Salteh-avatar on the side would be grand. :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :fiesta: :rocker2:

I’d put it next to my RTCW:ET toaster ! :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :fiesta: :rocker2:

(eRRoLfLyNN) #12

We had this problem too. An upgrade was necessary. Cheap motherboards eh!

Shrikey, I have a hankerin for the old-fashioned kettles too, even if they do pierce your ear-drums at times. At least you know your water is boiled, not like these new-fangled contraptions! :confused:

(Fusen) #13

I’m guessing you don’t get all the crappy limescale in the oldschool kettles? does my head in with cheap eletric kettles constantly having to clean them ¬.¬

(eq-Shrike) #14

Well you do but it doesn’t have the element to stick to so it is more of a general coating inside the kettle. Either way you have to descale it every now and then but it is a hell of a lot easier and you don’t get those chunks of limescale breaking off the element …

(Gimpsta) #15

… or if you’re feeling flash then get a kettle with inbuilt filter:

http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/kettles/brita-s1917.asp

:cool:

(Fusen) #16

sure, if you are willing to spend £60 for my kettle ;D

(Salteh) #17

I’m sure Gimpsta has at least two of those.
!!!

(eRRoLfLyNN) #18

The spendthrift!!

(Gimpsta) #19

…even better than that. The kettle was a gift from the in-laws :clap:

(matty(squiza)) #20

lmfao dickhead