How To Wrap An Extension Cord Properly

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Real Estate Agent with Keller Williams Realty Professionals MN Broker #40288835

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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Comments (16)

Susan Trombley
Trombley Real Estate - Wake Forest, NC
Broker/Realtor, Raleigh, Cary, Wake Forest, Youngs
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.
Sep 25, 2007 03:02 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals
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.
Sep 25, 2007 03:12 AM
Jason Romrell
Business Attorney and Success Advisor - Los Angeles, CA
Oh boy...been doing it wrong for YEARS!  Thanks for the heads up!
Sep 25, 2007 03:20 AM
Yvonne Root
rooms b.y. root - Prescott, AZ
Home Stager - Northern Arizona
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? 
Sep 25, 2007 03:32 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals
Jason - You know better now. as do I.
Sep 25, 2007 04:02 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals

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? 

Sep 25, 2007 04:04 AM
Yvonne Root
rooms b.y. root - Prescott, AZ
Home Stager - Northern Arizona
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! 
Sep 25, 2007 06:00 AM
Stephen Joos & Chris Brubaker- HouseFront
HouseFront - Denver, CO
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.
Sep 25, 2007 08:56 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals
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.
Sep 25, 2007 09:05 AM
Janice Sutton
1st Stage Property Transformations - Murrieta, CA
Home Stager - Temecula Murrieta
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.
Sep 25, 2007 11:46 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals
Mine too - he just now watched the video. We'll see what happens!
Sep 25, 2007 02:47 PM
Phyllis Pafumi
ReStyled to Sell Home Staging New Jersey - Old Bridge, NJ
ReStyled to Sell Staging Homes NJ

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 

Sep 25, 2007 02:48 PM
Jackie Peraza
Perceptions AdverStaging(TM), LLC - Framingham, MA
Home Stager - Framingham, Massachusetts

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

Sep 27, 2007 07:02 AM
Dionne Morgan
Realty World Solano Realty - Vallejo, CA
Broker REALTOR ,GRI, e-PRO

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

Sep 27, 2007 05:39 PM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals

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?

Sep 28, 2007 04:24 AM
Kathleen Lordbock
Keller Williams Realty Professionals - Baxter, MN
Keller Williams Realty Professionals
 Dionne - I think there is probably a group forming on AR for former extension cord abusers - want to join?
Sep 28, 2007 04:25 AM

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