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More Hotpoint bad PR as a house goes up in flames, apparently all due to an EXPLODING dishwasher…..
Re: It’s an exploding Hotpoint Dishwasher now
I didn’t know exploding was the same as catching fire?
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This would probably be one of the EOS platform dishwashers produced between 2007 and 2010 recalled in 2014.
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How about an exploding Samsung fridge.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article … -down.html
Steve
Re: It’s an exploding Hotpoint Dishwasher now
He said it exploded when he switched the circuit breaker back on and he was crouching down. Wish they had shown when his consumer unit was in relation to the fridge…
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Refrigerant leak, I assume? DIY repair gone wrong, maybe?
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That’s what I reckon, he’s trying to cover it by saying it was when he switched his circuit breaker back on. Which unless it was next to the fridge at a crouching height he wouldn’t be near it to take the imapct…
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That part I can believe – the circuit breaker could well be in the built in cupboard visible to the right of the photo, whose door is resting on top of the fridge in the second photo. From the position of the dent on the freezer door, and the corresponding dent in the kitchen wall, I seems that the appliance had been pulled forward prior to the “explosion”. Wheter for the purpose of checking the fuse – or for diy repair – we can only speculate.
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