As trained PAT testers my husband and I volunteered to help testing the portable appliances at a local swapshop. The swapshop was surprisingly well attended. We did about 15 PAT tests, ranging from an almost new bread maker, crepes maker, a couple of kettles, a wall light to a greenhouse heater. It took us about an hour to get all the appliances tested, sadly there were two items did not pass the test, which means they would have to be ended up at the recycling centre.
Swapshop is such a wonderful mechanism to help ourselves and the environment. One has old things that he/she no longer needs, e.g. CDs, books, magazines, clothes, but is too good to throw away; others may find those things are exactly what they would like to have. Swapshop provides a venue to satisfy both the 'bringing' and the 'taking' parties; and save the stuff that would otherwise be sent to landfill sites. I was thrilled to see those coasters, CDs, National Geography magazines and some nice clothes that I had brought in went to a good home... It is really comforting to know that those stuff will be given another lease of life.
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