Electrolux EDC47130W user manual Safety Information, General safety

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Safety Information

In the interest of your safety and to ensure the correct use, before installing and first using the appliance, read this user manual carefully, including its hints and warnings. To avoid unnecessary mistakes and accidents, it is important to ensure that all people using the appliance are thoroughly familiar with its operation and safety features. Save these instructions and make sure that they remain with the appliance if it is moved or sold, so that everyone using it through its life will be properly informed on appliance use and safety.

General safety

•It is dangerous to alter the specifications or attempt to modify this product in any way.

•This appliance is not intended for use by persons (including children) with reduced physical, sensory or mental capabilities, or lack of experience and knowledge, unless they have been given supervision or instruction concerning use of the appliance by a person responsible for their safety.

•Make sure that small pets do not climb into the drum. To avoid this, please check into the drum before using.

•Any objects such as coins, safety pins, nails, screws, stones or any other hard, sharp material can cause extensive damage and must not be placed into the machine.

•In order to avoid danger of fires caused by excessive drying, do not use appliance to dry the following items: Cushions, quilts and the like (these items accumulate heat).

•Items such as foam rubber (latex foam), shower caps, waterproof textiles, rubber backed articles and clothes or pillows fitted with foam rubber pads should not be dried in the tumble dryer.

•Always unplug the appliance after use, cleaning and maintenance.

•Under no circumstances should you attempt to repair the machine yourself. Repairs carried out by inexperienced persons may cause injury or serious malfunctioning.

Contact your local Service Centre. Always insist on genuine spare parts.

•Oil-affected items can ignite spontaneously, especially when exposed to heat sources such as in a tumble dryer. The items become warm, causing an oxidation reaction in

the oil. Oxidation creates heat. If the heat can not escape, the items can become hot enough to catch fire. Piling, stacking or storing oil-affected items can prevent heat from escaping and so create a fire hazard. If it is unavoidable that fabrics that contain vegetable or cooking oil or have been contaminated by hair care products, acetone, alcohol, petrol, kerosene, spot removers, turpentine, waxes and wax removers should be washed in hot water with an extra amount of detergent before being dried in the tumble dryer.

•Danger of explosion: Never tumble dry items that have been in contact with flammable solvents (petrol, methylated spirits, dry cleaning fluid and the like), as these substances are volatile and could cause an explosion. Only tumble dry items washed with water.

•Risk of fire: items that have been spotted or soaked with vegetable or cooking oil constitute a fire hazard and should not be placed in the tumble dryer.

•If you have washed your laundry with stain remover you must execute an extra rinse cycle before loading your tumble dryer.

•Please make sure that no gas lighters or matches have accidentally been left in pockets of garments to be loaded into the appliance.

•The final part of a tumble dryer cycle occurs without heat (cool down cycle) so that the items are left at a temperature which ensures they will not be damaged.

Never stop a tumble dryer before the end of the drying cycle unless all items are quickly removed and spread out so that the heat is dissipated.