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How To Wrap An Extension Cord Properly

How to Wrap An Extension Cord Video

     Whether you are a home stager, make bird houses in your garage or really like to light things up for Christmas - you probably own an extension cord and need to watch this video.  I have been wrapping extension cords up for years and I have been doing it the wrong way!  The result of that ignorance ( and some general misuse, theft, wear and tear)  has resulted in my  having to buy many new cords every year.

     Since I am also the partner in Quality Roof Systems located in Brainerd, Minnesota  , we have very long (translate into expensive) cords.  No matter how long your cord nor what you use it for, it pays to wrap them correctly and get more cost effective use out of them. This  instructional video is quick and can save us all a good deal of money and frustration in the long run.

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16 comments • Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes • September 25 2007 09:53AM

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I have always been taught the figure 8 for wrapping any cords so you do not strech them and then you have less of guage than what you started with.
Posted by Susan Trombley Broker/Realtor Raleigh, Cary, Wake Forest, Youngsville (Trombley Real Estate) over 2 years ago
Good girl Susan - I wrapped them around - hand to elbow - just like I do my water hoses - got to change that , too - but not to a figure 8.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Oh boy...been doing it wrong for YEARS!  Thanks for the heads up!
Posted by Jason Romrell (Business Attorney and Success Advisor) over 2 years ago
Doggone it I can't get the video to play. I tried reading the transcript. No use. I don't have any idea what flipping the hand back and forth does because I don't know what is happening with the cord. So . . . how do I get the video to play? 
Posted by Yvonne Root Northern Arizona Home Stager (rooms b.y. root) over 2 years ago
Jason - You know better now. as do I.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago

Yvonne-

I don't know why it won't play for you so I emailed you the link.

Let me know if you can't hear it that way.

Anyone else having trouble with the video? 

Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Thanks Kathleen, I finally got it to work. Now I will have to practice because I have been doing it exactly like he says not to do. Funny part is that while I worked on the drama team at our church the way we wrapped all the miles of cords was what he is saying to do. I just never transfered the information. Perhaps I will be able to do it correctly. Good info. Thanks! 
Posted by Yvonne Root Northern Arizona Home Stager (rooms b.y. root) over 2 years ago
Wait.  You mean balling them up and throwing them in a box with many other cords isn't the way it is suppose to be done...? Weird.  Thanks for the instructions.
Posted by Stephen Joos & Chris Brubaker- HouseFront (HouseFront) over 2 years ago
Nice try Stephen - but that is even worse that my neatly wrapping them around my arm. I suppose you do that with your Twinkle lights, too!!!! I know they decorate in Colorado in the winter.
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
Kathleen - The way the guy on the video was showing us how not to wrap the cord ia the way my husband has been doing it for years!!!!  I should him this video. Thanks for the education.
Posted by Janice Sutton - Temecula Murrieta Home Stager - Home Staging (1st Stage Property Transformations ) over 2 years ago
Mine too - he just now watched the video. We'll see what happens!
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago

Yep I go with the traditional figure 8 and then have a fit when it is time to unwrap. Old creatures of habit I just guess.

Phyllis Pafumi 

Posted by Phyllis Pafumi-ReStyled to Sell Staging Homes NJ (ReStyled to Sell Home Staging New Jersey) over 2 years ago

oooooh, I can't wait to show 'ole Mr. handyman I know a trick he doesn't...ha ha ha

Thanks for the video.  I am going to have so much fun with this.  Wondering If I can get a dinner out for the one that can wrap the cord properly?  Wicked, aren't I?  My poor husband and my practical jokes.

Jackie

Posted by Jackie Peraza, Home Stager - Framingham, Massachusetts (Perceptions AdverStaging(TM), LLC) over 2 years ago

Thank you for the great tip. Who would believe that my cords have suffered abuse at my hands.

Posted by Dionne Morgan Broker REALTOR®,GRI, e-PRO (Realty World Solano Realty) over 2 years ago

Jackie - So it is the old I know something you don't know game - right?

You had better practice a bit  to become the cord wrapping pro - was it over under & under over?

Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago
 Dionne - I think there is probably a group forming on AR for former extension cord abusers - want to join?
Posted by Kathleen Lordbock Keller Williams Realty Brainerd Lakes ( KW REALTOR/Staging & Short Sale Specialist) over 2 years ago

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