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Today I bought myself a new iron (well, a girls got to treat herself :wink: ) and this extension thingy - it has a 13a fuse in. Is this type safe?

The iron is an 1800w iron and the fuse in the iron plug was 13a - here is the inside of the iron plug. I bought it from Home Bargains which despite the name is not a £shop type place - it normally sells high quality items, just at bargain prices.

Thanks for the info on sockets/extensions etc I will definitely replace the square adaptor with a trailing socket if that is safer and will also turn the switch off before unplugging things in future. I'm really paranoid about a fire and have even got the cat basket down from the loft in case...

Well I opened up the iron plug and it is immaculate inside. Although the back of the adaptor plug, ie the outside pins, looks clean the inside is blackened. Not sure if that changes what was the probable cause of the fault? Pic of adaptor...

I'd rather buy a new iron for safetys sake if it seems it was the iron that caused it. Is a trailing lead safer than an adaptor block/socket tripler? Is the consensus that there is no need to get an electrician to test the actual socket then?

The cord of the iron looks unaffected. I know absolutely nothing about electricity so not sure of the significance of "the flash over appears to have been from the live to the earth."

I have a two plug socket in the living room. In the right hand socket the wireless router is plugged in and in the left hand socket there was a square plug extension socket with a cordless phone base permanently plugged in. Tonight I plugged the iron in the square extension and when I...

RF lighting - They were definitely cheapo lights although having said that I would have hoped they'd both last longer than a few months. Thanks for the screwdriver handle tip, I think even I would be capable of carrying out that 'fix'! Thanks for all the help :D

Thanks for the replies... There are no trees/bushes affecting the sensor and I live at the end of a cul-de-sac so very little passing traffic. Both units were different manufacturers, hence the first one having the 'always on' facility which this one definitely doesn't. bernardgreen - To...

I moved into my current house in February last year, the security light out the front was not working so was replaced with a new unit shortly after I moved in. Within a few months the light stayed permanently on and then eventually didn't work at all. This light WAS the kind where flicking the...

I want to paint my external rear wooden door a slightly different shade. If the paintwork is in reasonable condition can I just paint straight over it with an external gloss paint of my preferred shade (slightly lighter green to the current colour) or will I need to prepare the door first...

The second engineer that came fitted a new pump and it still cuts out so definitely not the pump! Thanks anyway

My boiler hasn't worked properly for 3 weeks now, it keeps cutting out and to restart it you have to press the 'overheat stat reset' button. It then works for another 20 minutes or so before overheating again and cutting out, the net result is that I have no heating as it won't stay on! After...

I'd like to replace the current CH & HW timer which is an 'ACL Switchmaster SM 400', for an electronic one that allows me to program it over 7 days with varying temperatures at different times of the day instead of simply on or off as the current one does. Is it possible to get one of the...