One of life's little mysteries
Grandad June 11th, 2007
Electric kettles seem to act like old men.
After a few years they start to dribble and leave little puddles on the floor.
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Grandad June 11th, 2007
Electric kettles seem to act like old men.
After a few years they start to dribble and leave little puddles on the floor.
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But they don’t lose their elastic!!!!!!
Maybe that’s their problem?
Our last kettle started to dribble, so I replaced it about a year ago. Everything was fine but now it has started to dribble too.
And get covered in white shit too, don’t forget that …
and yet you’d always be lost without one
You’ve lost me Dario? What has white shit to do with kettles? Do you do strange things with kettles in Cavan that I don’t know about?
Conortje – I’d never be without one. I’m addicted to tea.
What ever happened to putting a pot of water on the stove and heating it?
Geez, electrical tea kettles. What’s next, horseless wagons? Maybe a steam powered aero machine?
Cavan must be a hard water area. I think thats the white shit Dario is talking about – Limescale.
Or should that be soft water area??
Oh yes – limescale.
It’s hard water that causes that. I know all about that [I think it's the prostate playing up again].
Damn you Robert! What I was going to say was:
‘Well, I was talking about limescale, but whatever you’re into … it is 2007 …’
Now to impart my sparkling comedic genius to other people.
And yes, Cavan is a very hard water area.
the ones i get (shite from argos). only last a few years. then stops working. the same with the coffee machines. no hard water or anything. its all cheap rubbish from china designed from the ground up to break after a certain time
I wouldn’t mind if they were cheap kettles but they aren’t. They are so called ‘top brands’. I don’t drop them or crack them or anything. They are looked after carefully and lovingly.
But after a year or so, they just start to dribble.
Weird.
Its the lead,in the solder.Leaching away till it leaks.
Nope. Plastic kettles. And the joints are all sound. They just start dribbling from the lip.
So long as you don’t do that….
Not yet.
And I blame any little puddles on the dog.