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Well I am lucky tonight

Kap10
Kap10 Posts: 15,601
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Wife got home this evening and smelt burning plastic, went into the garage and I watched as our washing machine flickered and then burst into flames, while I phoned the fire brigade. Within minutes the fire brigade were here and put it out. If she had come any later our garage would have gone and our bedroom above.

Can't thank the fire brigade enough!

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  • Talal
    Talal Posts: 11,524
    Shit that puts the broken zip on my jacket into perspective.
    Glad it was no worse.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,012
    Glad you caught it Kap!
  • Beckboy
    Beckboy Posts: 1,682
    Bloody hell glad you caught it in time .As you say could been a lot worse
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,913
    The wire hanger 6/4
    The white peg 2/1
    The De-Icer 5/2
    Michael Appleton 4/1
    Alan Curbishley 16/1


    Seriously, glad you're all ok Kap
  • tangoflash
    tangoflash Posts: 10,788
    Proline, FFS.

    Now when you get your insurance payout, don't be so tight and buy a decent make..........;-)
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    I was in the brigade and had numerous shouts to domestic appliances going up. Tumble dryers were a favourite. Also most people don't know that if you put them on and go out most household insurances wont cover you should they get hot and go pop!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,084
    edited December 2014
    Presumably, the washing machine was "on" when it burst into flames ?
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,601
    Covered End said:

    Presumably, the washing machine was "on" when it burst into flames ?

    It was on when it started smoking, I had unplugged it before it burst into flames
  • carly burn
    carly burn Posts: 19,505
    Why is the wife more than ten metres away from the kitchen and white goods?
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,461
    Powell should have waited, he'd have been good there


    Oh wait not this time

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  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,240
    carly burn said:

    Why is the wife more than ten metres away from the kitchen and white goods?

  • better red than dead
    better red than dead Posts: 491
    AFKABartram said:

    The wire hanger 6/4
    The white peg 2/1
    The De-Icer 5/2
    Michael Appleton 4/1
    Alan Curbishley 16/1


    Seriously, glad you're all ok Kap

    2/1 on, the mouse. The traps haven't worked and as the peanut butter is missing from one I think the mouse took it into the machine for a quiet feast.


    Seriously, glad you're all ok Kap, just get a better mouse-trap.
  • robroy
    robroy Posts: 4,459
    I had a bad break up with an ex and had to change the locks, she pestered me for months. Proper nut case. My washing machine was making a loud clunking noise about four months after she had left and I called a repair man out.

    Had to take a days holiday to wait in for him. When he got there he found one of her hair clips in the machine and that was it. Proper pissed me off knowing she had caused it haha!

    Oh and the straw that broke the camels back. It was when Millwall won the playoffs, she went out with a mate and bumped into some of their team and sent me a picture of her and some players. The locks where changed the next morning.
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,769
    Greenie said:

    I was in the brigade and had numerous shouts to domestic appliances going up. Tumble dryers were a favourite. Also most people don't know that if you put them on and go out most household insurances wont cover you should they get hot and go pop!

    Serve you right for wearing a tumble dryer

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