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[enismirdal]

Oh, yeah, clever!!

The corridor on which I live is, like most in college, equipped with its own kitchen, if you can call it that. Said kitchen has a double electric hotplate type thing, on which one can cook meals. Naturally, the temperature of the plates is controlled by knobs on the front.

For some time now, the knob controlling the larger plate has been sticky - it doesn't quite go all the way off, so unless you switch off the unit using the isolator switch on the wall, the larger plate is always slightly warm.

Well, it's just got worse. I get them impression one of my neighbours has let it get too hot (left it on for hours and hours?), and thus even stickier. It is now perpetually stuck between the 3 and the 4 setting (it only goes up to 5, so this is HOT) and left the isolator on. Cooking could be fun for a while, when I have the choice between "hot" and "off" on that plate, and if "off", the other one will also be off.

Hmm. If I kick up a fuss with maintenance, maybe we'll get a new one... *grin*

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[larianelensar.livejournal.com]

Talk about safety hazards. That could burn the whole building down.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you have a point. I'd only really considered the "annoying" factor, never mind the safety factor! Better than an open flame from a gas ring, I suppose - but nonetheless, if the toaster power cord was knocked over the ring there could be real trouble...

Amusingly, they just sent out a memo reminding us we're not supposed to fry in college kitchens. Which I don't think would be hazardous at all if they actually supplied us with decent rings (and I've never set anything on fire here).

[larianelensar.livejournal.com]

Heh. I can tell I was a lab manager at one time, had to do the safety inspections. That was the first thing I thought of...how unsafe it was, annoying would have been my second thing..*grin*

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

*grins* Plant Sciences had a safety audit in January. Just before, they stuck a big notice on the ladder in the library, "Only to be used by trained librarians" (everyone uses it, no one ever falls off) and went around making sure none of the jars could fall off the shelves.

They also really did have a risk assessment for "crossing the road on the way to the Botanic Gardens" - a form that it turns out I should have been shown before I had that run-in with a car back in December. Oops! Not the best time for an accident to happen, I guess!

[hermeneut-me.livejournal.com]

My twat of a housemate who just told me off for leaving a couple of bowls in the sink today has just left the hob on for the second time after denying it was him yesterday. I caught him this time, stupid idiot is going to get us burned down.

Bloody hobs.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Your housemate does indeed sound muchly twatsome.

I'm glad you had so much fun in Morocco - sounds like a really awesome experience! If they have a time of year when it's not hot, I'll have to visit there too one of these days! :D

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

Mm. Whenever one of the hob-like substances breaks down in Cripps in John's, it tends to get replaced by a combination hob/grill thing. You might be lucky.

Also, yes, that does sound screamingly unsafe to me and is the sort of thing which I would try and get sorted sooner rather than later. Burned!Eni is probably a bad thing.

[blue-blue.livejournal.com]

The fire hazard is definetely real. I read someplace that in this country, the main reason for home fires among elderly people, was when they left the hot plate on. Imagine if somebody forgets to turn the isolator switch off, so that plate stays hot an entire night? These things become red hot when there are no pots etc on them to lead the heat away, which again heats the environment until something either melts or begins to glow - fire ensuing. I think I wouldn't be able to even sleep at night, without ensuring for myself that the plate was turned off. *shudders*

Please, make a nuisance of yourself to the maintenance peopleand get it removed, before Eni gets burnt!
*worries*