[News] *people with young children please read this*

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash

Jul 6, 2003

70,187

• Sep 13, 2019

• #21

schmunk said:

Please could you elaborate?

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Some of those sold don't have the safety standard 'kite mark' and basically don't do the job they're supposed to ie detect carbon monoxide.

Report also says to get your old gas appliances checked

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...QqQIIKCgBMAA&usg=AOvVaw2xl9jjuyaC2k0ezoGs1vLu

 

Iggle Piggle

Well-known member

Sep 3, 2010

5,332

• Sep 13, 2019

• #22

Tom Hark said:

Some of those sold don't have the safety standard 'kite mark' and basically don't do the job they're supposed to ie detect carbon monoxide.

Report also says to get your old gas appliances checked

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...QqQIIKCgBMAA&usg=AOvVaw2xl9jjuyaC2k0ezoGs1vLu

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I had one that went off all the time. Assumed it was faulty and lashed it in the bin. When the boiler was due it's service, the engineer found a leak from the boiler to the vent. Whoops.

Always wondered why my family looked like something out of the Ready Brek adverts

 

portlock seagull

Why? Why us?

Jul 28, 2003

17,075

• Sep 13, 2019

• #23

Iggle Piggle said:

Why does back up battery on a smoke alarm go in the middle of the night? Every. Single. Time

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This is the sort of research universities should be doing. Not telling us something we already know like eating shite makes you ill!

 

Publius Ovidius

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Jul 5, 2003

46,036

at home

• Sep 13, 2019

• #24

Our smoke alarm went off twice last week and both times I didn’t hear it and was woken up by the Mrs as she heard it straight away.

 

Barham's tash

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Jun 8, 2013

3,615

Rayners Lane

• Sep 13, 2019

• #25

Thunder Bolt said:

My husband is hard of hearing, due to genetics but has a council provided vibrating pad in his pillow to wake him up.

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Don’t know why but this image popped into my mind on reading that description.

 

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Arthritic Toe

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Nov 25, 2005

2,399

Swindon

• Sep 13, 2019

• #26

Thunder Bolt said:

My husband is hard of hearing, due to genetics but has a council provided vibrating pad in his pillow to wake him up.

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Is that where he told you he got it when you found it in the bed?

 

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Arthritic Toe

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Nov 25, 2005

2,399

Swindon

• Sep 13, 2019

• #27

Barham's tash said:

The last time Watchdog claimed something was a 'potential death trap' it was pop tarts from memory. How times have changed.

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This is the 'Fake Britain' ethos. I love it how they always manage to find a 'potentially lethal' angle to every fake product. Whatever it is, they get an 'expert' to pump a million volts into it and then film the resultant bang.

 

father_and_son

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Jan 23, 2012

4,646

Under the Police Box

• Sep 13, 2019

• #28

Thunder Bolt said:

Really? Not allowed to call them deaf? Where did you read that?
There are varying degrees of hearing loss from profoundly deaf to hard of hearing.

My husband is hard of hearing, due to genetics but has a council provided vibrating pad in his pillow to wake him up.

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Why do the council want to wake him up? Can't they just let him sleep? The council don't wake me up! Not sure if I should complain!

 

Horses Arse

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Jun 25, 2004

4,571

here and there

• Sep 13, 2019

• #29

If you've got small children try to stay way from nurofen painkillers. Them and some antibiotics are attributed to stephens-johnson disease. Definitely a no when they've got chickenpox too, heightens the risk and makes chicken pox worse.

Not widely known but important info to be aware of. A work colleague's son suffered the consequences at 4 years of age and was lucky to stay alive, life changing injuries from it though.

I strongly recommend that you don't google the illness, looks like a combination of a flamethrowing assault and frost bite. Horrible.

Appreciate it has nothing to do with fire alarms but..

 

yxee

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Oct 24, 2011

2,521

Manchester

• Sep 13, 2019

• #30

Driver8 said:

The small children are unlikely to be managing the evacuation.

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This. Why is this news? Let alone an alarming warning

 

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat

Aug 18, 2009

65,490

Beside the seaside, beside the sea

• Sep 13, 2019

• #31

father_and_son said:

Why do the council want to wake him up? Can't they just let him sleep? The council don't wake me up! Not sure if I should complain!

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They provide a flashing light for the doorbell and a volume enhancer when the phone rings, as well.

 

father_and_son

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Jan 23, 2012

4,646

Under the Police Box

• Sep 13, 2019

• #32

Thunder Bolt said:

They provide a flashing light for the doorbell and a volume enhancer when the phone rings, as well.

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Definitely complaining. The council seem to be investing a lot in getting his attention and they just don't care about me.

Hang on... They only provide the volume enhancer when the phone rings??. How do they know it's going to ring? Do they take it away after or have you got lots of volume enhancers?

 

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat

Aug 18, 2009

65,490

Beside the seaside, beside the sea

• Sep 14, 2019

• #33

father_and_son said:

Definitely complaining. The council seem to be investing a lot in getting his attention and they just don't care about me.

Hang on... They only provide the volume enhancer when the phone rings??. How do they know it's going to ring? Do they take it away after or have you got lots of volume enhancers?

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It's all clever stuff this new fangled electronic gizmo.