Dishwasher caught fire!!

My dishwasher was on fire, I heard the same crackling noise and I was watching TV when it happened. Lucky enough I was able to repress the fire by turning off the mains electricity and also putting cold water into the dishwasher. The firemen came and just removed the dishwasher and placed it in my front garden. My ceiling was not burnt like yours though!
 
Azza you have made my day, that's the most compelling video iv seen on the net in weeks!

Least I know about what to do for a dish washer now
 
This one time, mumsie put her wooden chapatti rolling board over the gas cooker, and it burst into flames.

I wonder why. Somehow the bint managed to put it out without having to call the fire brigade or telling anyone about it, but the smell of smoke filled the whole house, and in the kitchen was her rolling board with a blackened gas flame shaped ring around the middle.

I worried for the safety of my PC :(

Another time she was making something oily in the oven and stuck it onto 350 degrees. The whole house began filling up with a burning oil scent, and I ran to the kitchen to turn it off before it erupted into an oil fire, with her screaming at me to leave it alone and let her carry on cooking it. Dumb ****. At least I managed to save my PC.
 
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Ever since I went to a fire safety briefing at my old workplace (to be trained in fire extinguisher/blanket handling) and they showed us pictures of houses gutted by burned out white goods, I always shut the kitchen door at night. I may not be able to stop the washing machine catching fire but it will go some way to contain the smoke damage.
 
Glad you are both fine


Wanda's dishwasher quit working so she called a repairman. Since she had to go to work the next day, she told the repairman, "I'll leave the key under the mat. Fix the dishwasher, leave the bill on the counter, and I'll mail you a check."

"Oh, by the way don't worry about my bulldog. He won't bother you. But, whatever you do, do NOT, under ANY circumstances, talk to my parrot!" "I REPEAT, DO NOT TALK TO MY PARROT!!!"

When the repairman arrived at Wanda's apartment the following day, he discovered the biggest, meanest looking bulldog he has ever seen. But, just as she had said, the dog just lay there on the carpet watching the repairman go about his work.

The parrot, however, drove him nuts the whole time with his incessant yelling, cursing and name calling. Finally the repairman couldn't contain himself any longer and yelled,

"Shut up, you stupid, ugly bird!" To which the parrot replied, "Get him, Spike!"
 
C.R.A.Z.Y said:
Errrrr..... Not unless your house has been wired by a cowboy!
All cables in a correctly wired house are protected by fuse's,MCB's,RCBO's..etc these make it impossible for the cables to draw more current then the CSA of the cable can safely carry!!
An overloaded ring final will simply cause either a fuse to blow or a breaker to trip.
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Whilst this is true there is always a posibility of a fault with the MCB/RCBO, I have seen a nackered mcb not trip due to a fault and the older the instalation gets the the higher the chance of a failure. I assume your a sparks? If so why would we test RCD functionality on periodics etc? Surely if they always worked fine why would we need to test them after the instalation cert?
(I know an RCD is a device specifically for peoples protection rather than an overcurrent device hence the tests but both are mechanical and can fail)

Your point on coiled cables though is defiantly something that needs to be highlighted to the public more though, a coiled cable is a definate fire risk/shock hazard due to melted insulation.
 
Looks like the flames were emanating from under the dishwasher. Perhaps something near the floor caught fire?

Dishwashers get reasonably hot in use. So maybe that had the potential to ignite some dust or fluff beneath it.
 
nst68 said:
The worse thing about that vid is that I bought a Bosch to replace the one that caught fire :eek::eek::eek::eek:
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went round to an elderly customers house recently who were one day having afternoon tea in the lounge when their bosch dishwasher caught fire in the kitchen.

they are currently in temporary accomodation pending completion of insurance work.

kitchen is complete write off as too are most of the carpets as result of the firebrigade stomping about.
 
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