On 01/05/2013 10:40, Huge wrote:
On 2013-05-01, Tim Streater wrote:
In article
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harry wrote:

If each appliance is fitted with a "smart device", then no changes are
needed to the home wiring.
I would have thought is better to have "essential" and
"non-essential" circuits in every house.

And you think the teenagers are going to remember which socket to plug
something in to? Or the average person, come to that.

You think anyone is going to convert their existing house to that - put
all your furniture in storage, move out, have all the walls bashed
around to have a second set of cabling installed, replaster, complete
redecoration, move back in.

Dream on.

I've looked at 2 houses now that have parallel wiring systems for 110V and
BFO transformers tucked away somewhere. Most odd. I would have thought it
would have been *much* cheaper for American ex-pats to throw away their
electrical appliances and buy new ones here, and get a proper washing
machine into the bargain.


Ahbut, the Merkins think that *their* stuff is infintely superior to
anything available outside the US of A.

If they work for the forces, then moving stuff around the world is free
for them, and as they may move every few months....

Were the houses you looked at fairly close to a base, and in an estate
of suspiciously similar-looking ones? Almost as if they'd been built to
accommodate US personnel during the Cold War?

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Tciao for Now!

John.