Check Outlets with Hair Dryer On New Home Walk Through

when doing a walk-through on a "soon to be yours" home or apt, bring along a hairdryer. It's an instantaneous way to check if the electrical plugs are working. The instant "whirr" will let you know to go on to the next outlet!

By Trisha from Ventura, CA

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By 02/16/2010

We used a small clip-on type lamp when we did ours, but the instantaneous result was along the same lines.

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