DP has just broke my dryer

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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?

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

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

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

Good grief.

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

Are you 12?
You tube is the answer.

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.

Omg… I’m living in an alternate universe 😬

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!)

Do you mean the plug at the end of the wire, or the actual wall socket? Because the wall socket is a bit more complicated (and dangerous).

You honestly could have googled how to fix this in less time than it did to make this post.

Stripe the wire back carefully, get a screwdriver and rewire the plug making sure you put the wires in correctly.

It is really easy to do, my dad taught me many moons ago.

Rewiring a plug

bRown to the Right
bLue to the Left
Green/Yellow - earth in the middle.

We always had to rewire as kids as fuses were always blowing.

I wonder how many lives have been saved since moulded plugs? 6?

Google how to replace a plug. I think I was about 12 when I did it first back in the days when you needed to use an encyclopaedia. You’ll be fine.

And everyone had spare fuses in the random draw!

Thank you everyone for confirming this can be done safely.

I am rather saddened by everyone’s response. I have never had a broken plug before, my dad has a tendency to do things with electrics that definitely require an electrician, hence why I asked for advice on here.

I was never taught at school or in brownies to change a plug, nor do I remember a time electricals were purchased without one. How would I possibly know something like this if I have never been taught, I do not appreciate people acting like I’m an idiot for not know something. Why can’t people use their knowledge to educate people instead of belittling and tearing them down.

For absolute clarity - the socket is the thing into which you put the plug.

The plug dangles at the end of the cable. The socket is literally wired into the very dangerous mains.

They are exactly the same. Just a standard 3 pin plug. A tumble dryer will need a 13 amp fuse but that's the most common, anyhow.

Changing a plug is a very basic life skill.

For a PP you can even change a plug socket without an electrician so long as you're not putting a completely new power point in. Generally, if you replace, it's a DIY job, if you make a new one or significantly move something it at least needs an electrician to sign off the work.

It has been on the school curriculum for decades. At least twenty five years.