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DP has just broke my dryer

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Pinkdreams · 24/06/2025 23:11

I asked DP to move the dryer whilst I clean under it as I spilt something, he couldn’t move it far enough so got annoyed and pulled it, which has now completely snapped the plug. I’m so angry. My dad says we can just change it ourselves, would you call an electrician?

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PinkyBear · 24/06/2025 23:22

ninjahamster · 24/06/2025 23:20

Wow. When I was younger, appliances came without plugs on and you wired them yourself.. I was doing that from about the age of 8. YouTube it, it’s really fun to do.

I remember Xmas mornings having to wait patiently for my Mum to get round to putting all the plugs on the things that needed them! (My Mum was the handy one in our house!)

EnhancedVampireEyeballs · 24/06/2025 23:22

Why would it not be safe to change a plug? I learned how to do it in Primary School, probably at the age of 8 or 9.

I can still remember "the lively brown bear walked on green earth, under a neutral blue sky 😂

Watch a tutorial online, I promise, you will be able to do it, and think of the money you'll save doing it yourself rather than paying an electrician.

ThreePointOneFourOneFiveNine · 24/06/2025 23:21

KierEagan · 24/06/2025 23:19

I’m not sure a tumble dryer plug is as simple as a lamp or clock radio but it’s worth a try.

It is. It will just have a higher rated fuse in it, that’s the important bit to get right, but the wiring will be the same.

ninjahamster · 24/06/2025 23:20

Wow. When I was younger, appliances came without plugs on and you wired them yourself.. I was doing that from about the age of 8. YouTube it, it’s really fun to do.

SwedishEdith · 24/06/2025 23:20

I used my iron the other day - a rare event - and noticed it predated when goods came with a plug attached and thought how fixing a plug will become a dying skill.

WelshDaffodil · 24/06/2025 23:19

It has been a long time now since plugs come with new appliances in the UK already fitted, often moulded. Presumably people kept mis-wiring them. So I can understand Gen Z have never had to wire one. It's easy to do though.

KierEagan · 24/06/2025 23:19

I’m not sure a tumble dryer plug is as simple as a lamp or clock radio but it’s worth a try.

Kimwestonhelpless · 24/06/2025 23:17

It's a simple job to replace a plug if you know how.
If not watch a YouTube video because it obviously has to be done correctly.

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 24/06/2025 23:16

When I was at school every single child had to learn how to wire a plug. Whenever we bought some small electrical appliance it was always plug less, we had to buy a plug and do it ourselves.

KatieDidIt · 24/06/2025 23:16

Omg… I’m living in an alternate universe 😬

SailingWonder · 24/06/2025 23:15

No I would not call an electrician to change a plug. I would expect the person who had broken it to watch a YouTube video on how to change a plug and the buy and replace the plug. Quickly.

PashaMinaMio · 24/06/2025 23:15

Are you 12?
You tube is the answer.

Original poster
Pinkdreams · 24/06/2025 23:14

Really? I thought it was ok to change plug sockets, I never would have thought it was safe to change a plug. That’s great news

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StMarie4me · 24/06/2025 23:14

You…. You don’t know how to change a plug? Your buy new for a broken plug?

Good grief.

DriveboyDogboy · 24/06/2025 23:13

An electrician to change a plug? No, I learned how to change a plug as a Brownie, anyone can do it! You Tube.

BellissimoGecko · 24/06/2025 23:12

If it’s just the plug that’s broken, then yes, your dh can google how to do it and do it himself.

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