Specifications

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APPLIANCE CHECKLIST
With so many electrical appliances
available today, it’s easy to overlook
some of the ones you’ll want to
use in your home and garden. To
help ensure you don’t forget any,
try making a list of all your everyday
electrical appliances, room by room,
to assist your planning.
You’ll be amazed at just how many
electrical appliances you really have
and you’ll fi nd this a valuable tool when
deciding how many powerpoints you’ll
need in your home.
Enough dimmers?
Not only do dimmers make light bulbs last
longer, they can save on power bills and
reduce CO
2
emissions. Best of all, you’ll enjoy
the added convenience of being able to control
your lighting to suit any mood.
Dimmers are ideal in bedrooms, dining and
living rooms, halls and toilets. When it comes
to nighttime, a dimmer ensures welcoming light
that isn’t too bright for sleepy eyes.
A dimmer used with your outside lighting
can enable patios, porches and carports
to be better used for parties. Nobody likes
to socialise under bright lights, but when
clean-up time comes it is so much better if
you can see.
Wherever you have a light switch, think
seriously if a dimmer, or dimmer switch
combination would be a better alternative.
Enough switches?
Most bedrooms have the light switch by
the door. Doesn’t it make sense to have two
switches - one by the bed and one by the
door? This means you can switch your lights on
(even your bedside lamps) when you enter your
bedroom, and switch them off after you hop
into bed. No more dashing across in the dark.
Long hallways and stairwells can be a pain.
They too should have switches at both ends, so
it doesn’t matter which way you are travelling.