On the bridge!

November 26, 2007

SwitchesThere are all kinds of differences in the way they build houses here and the way they build them in Holland. In our house the electrician has installed so called isolator switches for all electrical appliances. They’re basically just circuitbrakers for the fridge, the oven, the hob etc. The nice thing is that if you want to switch off any of these devices, you just toggle the switch in stead of having to crawl on your knees, squeeze yourself into a dark kitchen cupboard and try to find the socket to pull the plug. The switch is visually supported by an orange light which is illuminated when it’s on and otherwise off. Very handy! For example when you need to defrost the fridge (we could not easily defrost the fridge in our house in Holland as the plug was unreachable)…

The only thing I would do differently is that I would have those switches centralized in the meter cupboard where they’re out of sight. Currently in the kitchen we have: a switch for the microwave, the oven, the fridge, the dishwasher, the hob, the extractor fan. Together with digital timers and clocks on the oven, the microwave and the stereo, they make the kitchen look like the bridge of the starship Enterprise…

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