ELECTRIC IRONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 10

ELECTRIC IRONS.

(To the Editor.) I Sir.—Reference in Saturday's "Star" to the risk of fires emanating from electric irons "being ]pft on." calls to mind nn experience that happened in our home *ome yoars ago. Tho iron was, in some way. left on all night, and when the maid pot up in the morning she. found the iron about n-d-hot and deeply embedded in the kitchen table. We were truly grateful for not being burnt out of house and homo, but the trouble was to prevent a recurrence. However, the difficulty \va3 easily solved by the writer when he suggested that a "red light should be installed in parallel with the iron. That th.it whenever the iron was switched on the red light automatically was switched on too. so that if anyone left the iron on and forgot about it they were immediately reminded when they saw the red light again and promptly switched both iron and light off. We never had a recurrence of the trouble. and to those about to instal electric irons (or for that mattor any electric heating apparatus) I would urge them to instal a red light in parallel' with the iron, etc. Ninety-five per cent of the risk would thereby \Ji eliminated.—l ; am, etc., ' WIND UP. j Takapuna. |