My electric kettle leaks rather slowly. Enough so that a few teaspoons of water collect on the base overnight. Is there any way to seal round the element in the base? I can't see any leaks or weaknesses.
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7 years ago
Leaking electric kettle
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Says it's suitable for potable water. But inside a kettle???
BTW, I've already bought a replacement, but I'm bloody-minded enough to want to try and fix the old one.
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7 years ago
Silicone ought to be fine at boiling point.
FWIW the thing will slowly fix itself if you're in a hard water area.
NT
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There can be issues with condensation, rather than leakage.
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No. wait till it blows the RCD and then buy a new one
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In some countries they'd connect the earth wire to the neutral, and no more RCD trouble. I don't suggest it.
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I tend to find its the hard water scale that usually makes them leak - it starts to force its way into the seal between base plate and body.
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7 years ago
Are you sure its not one of the joints where the little window level indicator is? Brian
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Try cooking porridge, which used to be recommended for car radiator leaks, in it; or boiling processed-pea juice.
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7 years ago
Why bother. Kettles are cheap disposable items.
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I ordered a new kettle at 7AM yesterday, Sunday. It was delivered 2 hours 30 minutes later. Stupidly good service.
The new kettle doesn't leak, but it's much flimsier and fairly noisy. I'd rather get the old one working.
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It's not the window. It's the seal round the element.
I descaled it a few weeks ago, and I'm wondering whether that's when it started to leak, but I just put it down to water spilling.
I'll descale it again and see whether it gets better or worse.
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Fill old kettle; heat water to make tea/coffee/cocoa/crack cocaine etc; empty kettle.
May have the benefit of feedback training to judge better how much water to put in the kettle in the first place :)
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descaling does tend to do that.
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The leak on our kettle was around the water gauge - it was slowly being pushed out by limescale build up.
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replying to philipuk, Tuffy wrote: What a disgraceful and irresponsible solution to this problem. We live in a disposable society and people like you exacerbate this issue rather than trying to find a solution first. 'If it doesn't work ... throw it away. If it makes a noise ..... throw it away. If you don't like the color .... throw it away. We live in a throw away society where everything is replaceable and nothing has any value. Sad.
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I bought a Russell Hobs 'forgettle' in 1978 and used it until 2013 when I replaced it with a £12 Wilko jug kettle (one where you can place it down on the base any way round) which is much better. The RH had a slight leak in the base but otherwise worked fine.
I also bought a toaster in 1975 for £10.50 and replaced it (when the contacts failed) in 2011 with a Wilko £5 one which works fine except that (unlike the earlier one) it doesn't attempt to toast second and subsequent slices for a shorter time to allow for the appliance being hotter.
I don't feel that I have contributed to the 'throwaway society' in either case.