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| Thread ID: 127431 | 2012-10-22 03:29:00 | question for electricians | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 1308111 | 2012-10-23 03:01:00 | If she does turn it back on in the morning then there is no real problem unless the lid/door seals are munted. It won't defrost overnight with the door closed. I'd probably go for the dummy lead or duct tape though, just in case.I'm just going on what my sister said "it was obvious the freezer had defrosted then frozen again." So when it went off and back on again I don't know. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308112 | 2012-10-23 03:41:00 | It is definitely not a good thing for a freezer to be regularly switched off overnight for an indefinite number of hours, winter or summer, with no guarantee when or if it will even be switched on again. That is just plain silly. The temperature is supposed to be maintained at -18C, it wont be if switched off for 10 hours or so nightly, even if it has not completely thawed overnight. It is certainly difficult with old people who are losing it. Like finding rotting chicken in their fridge, and them ending up in hospital with food poisoning :) I solved the problem with my mother who is now nearly 102 by getting her into a rest home, and let the staff there have the responsibility. Even so, she does silly things like wrapping everything up in tissues, like jewelry, her watch, her purse, even the TV remote, then they are likely to get thrown away as has happened several times. You know you're getting old when visiting the rest home to see aged mother and realise many of the inmates are the same age or younger than one's self :clap |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1308113 | 2012-10-23 04:11:00 | I solved the problem with my mother who is now nearly 102 by getting her into a rest home, and let the staff there have the responsibility.It will come to that eventually, but see my post #12. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308114 | 2012-10-23 04:19:00 | It will come to that eventually, but see my post #12. It depends upon the individual, since going into the rest home over 10 years ago, my mum has had a hip replacement, a broken femur, numerous chest infections etc etc, but she is so well looked after she just bounces back each time and is likely to well outlast me :thumbs: Edit: and the dreaded norovirus to boot |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1308115 | 2012-11-19 01:28:00 | I thought people might like to know that my Mum now has a protector over her freezer socket, and to date I've not heard of any more turn-offs, or tantrums because she couldn't. I suspect that if she has the notion, she sees the protector and that is enough to remind her it shouldn't be done. She also turned 92 yesterday, and sounded OK on the phone, though distinctly doddery. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1308116 | 2012-11-19 04:26:00 | Happy 92nd birthday to your Mum then. :) | Jen (38) | ||
| 1308117 | 2012-11-19 04:56:00 | He didn't want to go to bed without killing the power. With all the cheap and nasty electrical crap from China now, I don't like to either! |
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