Comment on Daily Discussion Thread:🩴Mon 11 Mar 2024

• neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Water got into it. It kept popping and had smoke pop out of it each time (one time fire). It had melted a bunch of plastic and despite being dry it would keep smoking, so that’s why we got an electrician. It’s no longer smoking so I guess it wasn’t completely dry last I checked. I did also clean the socket myself as it had a bunch of grease(?) and weird gunk inside it, so maybe that helped?

  Is it safe as it is right now?

  Hahaha, probably not. It’s a power outlet next to the sink and it has huge gaps where it meets the tile wall. Don’t know how this is the first time I got water in it, but it’ll probably happen again at some point.

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Crikey, is that even legal in this day and age? I’m guessing your REA/landlord aren’t very big on codes, based on what you were saying yesterday but come on - that seems like every type of hazard I can think of. Fire hazard, electrocution hazard, probably a pest hazard, since there’s a gap between the wall and it’s right next to the sink that’s probably also a mild hazard

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