Who's rewired their house for this hobby?

[Jim MacKenzie]

Just a guess, but the UK by and large is much colder than the US but generally not severely cold anywhere.  That might result in a) higher use of heating, and b) higher use of electrical heating when heating is present.

Jim

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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of William Donzelli
Sent: November-24-14 3:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Who's rewired their house for this hobby?

Just to feed the flames, here are some interesting statistics (2011) concerning electrical safety:

UK:
Total number of households: 26.4 million Total number of household fires due to electric issues: 20400

US:
Total number of households: 115 million
Total number of household fires due to electric issues: 47700

WTF, UK?