Ali
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No room in the house, and I couldn’t live without the tumble drier at the moment, so it lives in the connected garage on top of the washing machine. Probably the one area with all my most valuable stuff, and I bet the insurance would screw me if anything did happen.
I don’t have one of the dodgy ones, but then, I probably wouldn’t know about it until X no. of machines were found to be faulty and it hit the news. A mate of mine used to work at Hotpoint and said the numbers were just scary when they had a product with a known dangerous fault.
I’m having a bit of a shuffle round in there at the moment, and just thinking about any improvements I could make.
I need to keep it away from any sources of fuel, so is it worth lining the surrounding ceiling area with something fireproof? If so, what? (I will be insulating it in the near future anyway.). Top of tumble is about 15” from roof. It’s brick built, wood felt roof.
I did have smoke detectors in there, but kept getting false alarms due to dust or insects. I’m not sure I would have heard them anyway. These were just the 5yr Fire Angel type. Is there a better sort?
Any sound advice appreciated.
I don’t have one of the dodgy ones, but then, I probably wouldn’t know about it until X no. of machines were found to be faulty and it hit the news. A mate of mine used to work at Hotpoint and said the numbers were just scary when they had a product with a known dangerous fault.
I’m having a bit of a shuffle round in there at the moment, and just thinking about any improvements I could make.
I need to keep it away from any sources of fuel, so is it worth lining the surrounding ceiling area with something fireproof? If so, what? (I will be insulating it in the near future anyway.). Top of tumble is about 15” from roof. It’s brick built, wood felt roof.
I did have smoke detectors in there, but kept getting false alarms due to dust or insects. I’m not sure I would have heard them anyway. These were just the 5yr Fire Angel type. Is there a better sort?
Any sound advice appreciated.