To ask if you charge your phone overnight?

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The fire at grenfell is heartbreaking and it's made me revise fire prevention rules.

One of those is to not charge your phone overnight, something that I do every night.

AIBU to ask how many of you also do this? And also those who don't, how do you find the time to give it a full charge if you spend most of the day out of the house.

I've always switched everything bar the fridge and freezer off at night - from a money saving and environmental standpoint. But since having a smartphone I did charge it overnight as it was the most convenient time.

I've only stopped doing this a few weeks ago, when my son's friend died in a fire. which it appears was started by devices charging and overloading a socket.

Not sure it is feasible for people never to use tings overnight. It's actively encouraged with things like Economy 7 and storage heaters. What is important is homes being safe so that fire can't spread and people can get out in time. And smoke alarms, carbon monoxide alarms plus clear, practised escape plans.

Would it be cruel to have a fire drill in the night to see if the smoke alarm actually wake dh and dc up?

I don't think that would be cruel at all, I think it would be very sensible. I've seen Youtube videos where parents did this - they were all really confident their kids knew what to do in event of a fire. Few actually got out and stayed out quickly. The rest either hid in a closet, stayed in bed frantically shouting for several minutes or ran round shouting looking for their parents. It was quite shocking.

I had a fire years back, but luckily it happened at 7pm so we were all awake. I've drilled fire safety into my kids ever since, but even so that relies on them waking up. I recently tested our alarms, then stood next to my 11 year old's bed yelling that it was an emergency and he had to get up (a drill was his idea btw!). I couldn't wake him without literally pulling him out of bed! I'm now worried he wouldn't wake when needed and I've bought yet another really loud alarm and put it over his bed. The nearest one before that was on the landing.

Sorry, I've gone on about fires a lot on MN over the last couple of days, but it's the one thing I get really worried about and where people don't always follow advice.

We've had 2 fires. One caused by the freezer.

Always charge over night.

Roomba Wasn't there a report/study out recently that said that children don't wake up to smoke alarms? I know my DS certainly didn't the night ours went off - and it was right outside his bedroom and his door was open. Thankfully it was only a daddy long legs landing on the alarm and poking it's legs through the grill but I was amazed DS hadn't even stirred as I leapt out of bed from the opposite end of the landing!

Surely there are certain things that cannot be unplugged or turned off at night - fridge freezer, Sky box, lamp. Everything is left on standby here, I don't know if the TV has an on/off switch and I'd have to open the patio doors every night so I can get behind the TV!

Never - it's a fire risk, and not good for your phone battery (risk of overcharging)

I charge mine overnight with my phone on the spare pillow . I won't be anymore after this thread.

If you absolutely need to charge your device, the most important thing to do is make sure that you have a genuine charger.

I put mine on charge within a few minutes of arriving home in the evening (normally between 9 and 9.30pm). I leave it charging until I go to bed at about 1am then unplug it. It's practically always fully charged by then as it doesn't tend to go below 50% after a day's use.

I always charge mine overnight on the bedside table, but only buy proper chargers

Yes always. Buy decent cables and it's plugged into a USB port on a surge protected extension cable.

I only charge mine about once a month, so probably shouldn't reply...

I'm sure we will continue to have plenty of things on overnight, including the phone chargers.

Yes because it's not a fire risk, once it's fully charged it stops drawing any current.

It's all gone a bit hysterical on here after this fire.

Wasn't there a report/study out recently that said that children don't wake up to smoke alarms?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38918056

A modern smartphone doesn't overcharge - you won't damage your battery by doing so. It used to be the case a few years ago, but not any more.

Re charging overnight - the main fire risk is if you leave your phone and charger, charging on your bed - or similar flammable material.

Official chargers should be fine. The issue is cheap knock off ones - they just don't come up to the right standards and overheat.

I have an official iPhone and iWatch charging stand which I do use overnight - however, it means my phone isn't in contact with the bed or flammable material, and the plug doesn't eve vaguely get warm.

I always did until last month when a local girl was killed in a fire, the cause of the fire was a faulty phone charger. Now I take it to work and charge it there

In addition to charging our phones overnight, we run the dishwasher at night and the tumble dryer. I am a building surveyor so should have more sense.

Plus out house is old and higgledy piggledy and would be a nightmare in a fire.

In slight mitigation, we have smoke detectors in almost every room.

Every night. 5 of us. Phones and tablets. I need to look into this properly.

I charge my phone overnight. It sits on my bedside table on top of a ceramic jewellery box.

I also charge my phone throughout the day and evening as the battery doesn't last long. I do use my phone a lot and rarely switch on my laptop these days. I really do need to charge it overnight as I'm not allowed to plug in electrical items at work (unless they have an up to date PAT test sticker).

I have also been known to put my washing machine on before bed but only on a quick cycle. I would never leave the tumble dryer on overnight after all the recent reports of them catching fire.

Absolutely not. Far too dangerous. I charge it in the evenings.

My dad charges his overnight and whenever I stay with him I always take it off charge and turn the plug off.

I'm another who switches everything they can off overnight.

I don't use my phone as an alarm or timer unless I absolutely have to; I use an alarm clock and a kitchen timer. That takes a bit of pressure off in relation to keeping it charged.

I don't use my phone as an alarm or timer unless I absolutely have to;

I use my mobile as an alarm and don't charge it at night. It's an iPhone 6s and hardly loses any power by being my alarm.