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To ask if you charge your phone overnight?

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JustALittleQuestion · 15/06/2017 11:35

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.

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CanadianJohn · 16/06/2017 04:32

Well, I dunno. My wife has just gone to bed, and I'm counting up... we have two fridges and a freezer working over night, plus the central air conditioning, a couple of TVs on standby. I don't think an ipad is going to increase the hazard significantly. I frequently leave my desktop computer on standby overnight.

In winter, of course we would have the heat on overnight, and a couple of gas fires on the pilot.

I pretty much rely on the safety systems to cut power and/or give warning. We have four smoke alarms and three carbon monoxide detectors, plus a natural gas detector near the furnace.

Hulababy · 16/06/2017 21:02

My MacBook Air charger is about 18 Months old and no issues at all. It doesn't get warm when in use and no discolouring or anything.

Scottishchick39 · 16/06/2017 22:55

I charge mine at night but I have 8 smoke detectors which are inter linked in our house. My DH thought I was nuts when I got them installed, as did the electrician, but we keep our bedroom doors closed at night so I wanted to make sure that an alarm would go off if there was a fire in any room. I have a teenage daughter who more than likely charges her phone at night so wasn't taking any chances.

Sallystyle · 16/06/2017 23:17

Always. We all do.

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