"Rod" wrote in message
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Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:07:14 GMT, BigWallop wrote:

That's the reason we keep our Blender in the top cupboard. We hate it
when the hippos' get in there at night. Makes a real mess of the
blender come morning.

You ought to see what elephants leave in the breadmaker. B-)

Our current rapid boil cordless kettle is about 3 or 4 years old. Still
fine, the previous one didn't last all that long but we have had a
change
of water supply over that period. From hard requiring a descale every
month or so to soft with only minimal scale over seval years.

So I suspect the descaling and/or the cavitation, that is much more
pronounced in a hardwater area, has a bearing on the life of kettles.
Especially modern moulded plastic ones with seals in the base, sight
tubes
and/or transparent panels.

Actually it's squirrels in the plantpots at the moment. Wish they'd eff
off. :-)

Well, a while ago I posted about a problem my mother was having with
filter flies! And they got into her kettle - so she always draped a
teatowel over it. Not very satisfactory.

The little slider across the kettle spout seems also to reduce the
amount of steam/clouds of condensed steam that appear above the spout
(as against our previous 'open' kettle). A plus for that reason even if
you don't have any flying creatures, breadcrumbs, bits of tea leaf or
anything else to keep out of your kettles!

Rod


You mean these things
http://www.pestcontrolportal.com/pes...ipt1.asp?id=21 ? Yeeuuukkk!!!
Are they drawn toward the hot kettle?