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To think salt lamps are a liability

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Sera1989 · 02/03/2024 11:19

Sitting working and I hear a bang from the other room. The salt lamp has presumably short-circuited, set off the breaker and left a big brown burn mark on the shelf.
In the winter it's cold and the lamp gets damp, in the summer it's humid and the lamp gets damp. Every now and then I put it in the oven on low to dry it out, which seems like a lot of work for a lamp. It doesn't stay completely dry unless I have it on all day every day.

AIBU to think it's dangerous to have an electrical object which gets damp unless it's on and hot all the time? I don't think I'll be getting a new fitting for it, the pretty glow isn't worth getting electrocuted

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Jowak1 · 03/03/2024 19:30

I agree! I had to get rid of both of mine as they started leaking - water and electricity don't mix well!

Aviee · 03/03/2024 19:53

I love mine. My house isn't damp so it's always dry. My mum had to bin hers though as it's a damper house and made a right bloody mess

orangeleopard · 03/03/2024 20:04

I had gotten one a few years ago as a gift and rarely had it on as it was on the other side of the room so I never really reached for it. Anyway, it was sitting on my white wood drawers and when I removed it, it had stained the wood and seeped in and made it bubble. Never getting one again. It was wet to touch as well, which didn’t make sense for something to be used around electric.

TeenyTinyCrocodile · 03/03/2024 20:16

For people who don't want to commit to a plant 😁

Sounds like more trouble than any of the plants I own!

CorvusPurpureus · 03/03/2024 20:22

Overseas here (we make a lot of the salt lamps for export).

My mate has a salt wall in her rented villa. It has embedded lights & runs the length of the property.

She has to discourage her dc & dcats from licking it, & it puddles in winter.

Oh & she's also had to bollock her dh for scratching matches on it in order to light a ciggy...this leaves matchhead streaks which enrage her landlady.

I mean, it's VERY beautiful. But I'm not sure I cba...

Nicebloomers · 03/03/2024 20:26

My daughter literally binned hers the other day because it was dissolving into a puddle on her desk and she got concerned about the electrical parts being wet.

Yourethebeerthief · 03/03/2024 21:05

What are people doing with them that they get wet? I've never heard of this before

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