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kebakat 
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 11:10am |
Last night DH woke me up to inform me that the fire brigade is on the way and I needed to get out of the house.
A light fitting was on fire  And we are so pissed at lighting direct. They sold us a bulb ages ago that was mislabeled. So instead of putting a 150watt halogen in, it was a 300watt so at midnightish our place was filling with smoke.
Fire guys said we were lucky we called when we did as if we had left it much longer it would have really caught fire properly.
But we now have a big hole in the ceiling, the wiring is f**ked, carpet is f**ked, the house absolutely stinks!!
So we are gonna need a sparky, builder, painter, carpet layer, some sort of cleaning of all the curtains etc. The only guy we won't need is a damn plumber.
The only upside is BNZ seem to be good so far, just waiting on a couple of guys who are gonna come around today. One is a carpet dude to have a look at the carpet and one is an actual assessor.
*sigh* it was all we needed! 
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caraMel
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 11:13am |
 That sucks Stacey!
Thank goodness Richard was onto it and got you out in time, and than goodness you didn't have a wee bub in the house breathing in the smoke!
Glad you're all ok!
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MyMinis
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 11:14am |
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oh stink stacey.
hope it all gets sorted soon for yas.
grr at the guy who sold you the wrong light, jsut lucky yas foudn it when you did though otherwise it couldve been much worse.
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MyMinis
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 11:15am |
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just curious do you ahve a good smoke alarm system throguh your hosue?
if not maybe best to get onto it before baby arrives.
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kebakat
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 11:16am |
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We are gonna have a major go at the lighting place because we still have the box that clearly states its a 150 watt light bulb. I just wonder how many other bulbs they have completely mislabeled and people have!
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 11:58am |
OMG Stacey, you poor thing
That would suck. But so lucky, otherwise.
BTW what kind of light fittings do you have?
Do you use energy savers?
Hope everthing works out and goodluck with the trades men
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 12:13pm |
OMGosh, Thats just awful!!!!  Glad to hear you are all ok, and you able to get out in time.
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kebakat
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 12:39pm |
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Glow -no we don't use energy savers. They hurt my eyes and the light fittings that we have don't fit them anyway - most of our lights require special bulbs like halogen or those cone shaped ones
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 12:44pm |
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they get really hot when they switched on eh stacey. we had then in the salon i worked in and we used to pay someone to come and change them mainyl to try avoid any issues with having to buy them etc.
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 12:51pm |
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oh stacey thats horrible!!!!! big hugs to you hun. i would def get onto smoke alarms if u havent got them already. they can be a pain sometime if not put up in the right place(ours goes off everytime we put wood on the fire) but they would save your life
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 12:52pm |
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Yea they get hot aye? Putting out more heat than light.
Was it a halogen tube? Suspended/hanging from you ceiling or fixed on wall?
Naughty lighting place!!
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kebakat
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 1:43pm |
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Ours dont seem to get to hot actually but being the wrong wattage it must have got extremely hot. It's fixed to the ceiling. Gonna lay the mega guilts on lighting direct tomorrow! I hope no one else had mislabeled lights!!!!!!
So far though we are impressed with BNZ. Already had someone in to clean the ash and soot off the carpet so at least we can walk around without worrying about moving it further around the house. And they will deodorise the house for us probably after the builder and that have been in. And apparently we should hear from an assessor shortly.
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 2:39pm |
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Wow, that would have been so scary. Thank goodness Dh was awake and able to get you out in time, things could have been so much worse! I am so pleased that the BNZ seem to be good about it all for you - makes it a little easier to think they will sort if out for you asap.
Go and have a really good go at lighting direct, they are so lucky that it wasn't any worse than it was! It will be interersting to see what they do to fix the problem!
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Posted: 22 April 2007 at 7:32pm |
What a scary situation!! I guess the good thing is that your bubs isn't here just yet...
Best of luck for getting your house back to new 
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