Leccy toothbrush chargers

[Paulie Tandoori]

oh, i see. maybe it is cos they're a bag of shite then. we've stopped using them now tbh and gone back to simple normal tooth brushes & floss cos 30 or 40 squid a go was getting a bit much. they do make your teeth feel cleaner but that's quite a high price to pay.

 

[pogofish]

same here a proper plug would be so much easier.

I don't think it is legal to fit a proper 13A socket in a bathroom anymore. It has to be the IEE approved 2-pin type with a lower amperage.

Light switches are an even more compllex matter altogether but are allowed in some circumstances. As I'm in an old house, my bathroom light switch makes the average sparky blanche!

Press release on the current regs here:

http://www.nhic.org.uk/nhic-press-pack-winter-05/content/3_ma/pdf/04_01.pdf

Also:

http://www.bathroomcity.co.uk/regulations.asp?pid=465

 

[pogofish]

oh, i see. maybe it is cos they're a bag of shite then. we've stopped using them now tbh and gone back to simple normal tooth brushes & floss cos 30 or 40 squid a go was getting a bit much. they do make your teeth feel cleaner but that's quite a high price to pay.

Don't know - Prices have come down a lot IME. My first electric toothbrush cost a flaming fortune (over @£90 OTOH) back in the early 1990s but when I replaced it in 2002, the same model was just under £20 (with the basic charger, other versions idi cost more) & I've seen decent looking brushes in Lidl/Aldi in the £6-8 range. TK-Maxx had stacks of decent brand brushes on heavy discount the other week.

Cost of replacement heads is the only issue I have but if you shop around, IME you can puck them up on discound/BOGOFF quite often.

They do help keep your teeth cleaner IME - My need for dental work went right down after - in fact I didn't need a filling for something like five years after getting the first one. Although it did knock-out/loosen a few old fillings when I first got it. My several years of dental hell stemmed from other causes.

 

[se5]

well 'they' are twats then, don't you think?

fucksake, I'd never even had a bathroom with an adaptor in it til I got this house! 35 fucking years without a bathroom two-pronged socket - how DID i live?

Not having a socket in the bathroom I rewired mine with a normal plug and use it in the kitchen

 

[sojourner]

Well I RTFM, and it says the toothbrush can be stored on the charging unit to maintain it at full power, and that overcharging is impossible. Also the charging unit needs to be unplugged and the toothbrush needs full discharge every 6 months!

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

RTFM?!

 

[sojourner]

RTFM?!

read the fucking manual

 

[5t3IIa]

I walked past a display of them in Superdrug today and it said 'SAVE £60!!' I was a bit scared to see how much they were tbh. If they were *still* £40-odd I might have fainted. I think they must have been the super-duper 1trillion pulsations a second type.

There must be a limit to the effectiveness of these things. Like 2000 pulsations is not doing any better for your teefs and gumz than 1000 but it sounds better and costs more money?

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

read the fucking manual

Ah! I never do that cos the prints too small and my eyes are bollixed atm.

 

[sojourner]

There must be a limit to the effectiveness of these things. Like 2000 pulsations is not doing any better for your teefs and gumz than 1000 but it sounds better and costs more money?

Mine was only 20 squid from tesco is charging right now with my specially-purchased adaptor plug, that I had to walk around B and fucking Q for half an hour to find

Every single time I go to that shop I end up walking up and down aisles, swearing my head off

 

[sojourner]

Ah! I never do that cos the prints too small and my eyes are bollixed atm.

I'm sorely tempted to say 'typical bloke'

 

[5t3IIa]

Mine was only 20 squid from tesco is charging right now with my specially-purchased adaptor plug, that I had to walk around B and fucking Q for half an hour to find

Every single time I go to that shop I end up walking up and down aisles, swearing my head off

I like the smell of B&Q

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I'm sorely tempted to say 'typical bloke'

innit. far better to just start pushing buttons and pressing things, whilst working up a good quiet fury, before exploding into sweary rage about the "stupid fucking things never work properly!!!"

 

[sojourner]

innit. far better to just start pushing buttons and pressing things, whilst working up a good quiet fury, before exploding into sweary rage about the "stupid fucking things never work properly!!!"

whilst producing in the female of the species an inward explosion of rage at the male never reading the fucking manual

None of my male family or friends are capable of reading simple instructions - it's deffo some kind of pride thing

 

[sojourner]

I like the smell of B&Q

It has a smell? Can't say as I've noticed - unless it's the sweat coming off people as they stomp up and down aisles trying desperately to locate their intended purchase

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

whilst producing in the female of the species an inward explosion of rage at the male never reading the fucking manual

None of my male family or friends are capable of reading simple instructions - it's deffo some kind of pride thing

maybe you should have a word with my missus

i think she's buying me an instruction manual on how to read instruction manuals for xmas.....

 

[pogofish]

Don't go to B&Q for adaptor plugs. Asda do the sme ones for a quarter of the price.

Yes Soj you can keep in on a running charger but I doubt a six monthly discharge is frequent enough to avoid memory. It would probably give reasonable performance for a couple of years or so, which is all these gadgets are really designed for

 

[_angel_]

well 'they' are twats then, don't you think?

fucksake, I'd never even had a bathroom with an adaptor in it til I got this house! 35 fucking years without a bathroom two-pronged socket - how DID i live?

exactly.... I didn't realise it wouldn't come with a charger.... what is the adaptor to plug it into of which you all speak?

 

[pogofish]

what is the adaptor to plug it into of which you all speak?

One of these:

They go for silly prices in electrical shops but Asda does them for under a pound & the various EU/worldwide power adaptors for only a little more.

I go through quite a few of these at work as foreign visitors often turn-up with 2-pin laptops/gadgets & the like & they very often nick the ones I lend them. The nearest electrical shops charge from around £3.50 - £6-7 pounds for them, so every so often I get a pile from Asda instead.