What’s on the Home Emergencies poster
10 entries in 3 groups.
Locate all three before you need them, and tell everyone in the house.
- Water: Stopcock — usually under the kitchen sink, Turn clockwise to close, Also check…
- Electricity: Consumer unit — main switch off, Never touch a wet electrical fitting, A…
- Gas: Emergency control valve, near the meter, Smell gas: no switches, no flames, open…
Label the stopcock and the main switch. In an emergency, someone else may have to find them.
Questions about the Home Emergencies poster
- What’s on the Home Emergencies poster?
- 10 entries in 3 groups. Locate all three before you need them, and tell everyone in the house. Water: Stopcock — usually under the kitchen sink, Turn clockwise to close, Also check…; Electricity: Consumer unit — main switch off, Never touch a wet electrical fitting, A…; Gas: Emergency control valve, near the meter, Smell gas: no switches, no flames, open…. Label the stopcock and the main switch. In an emergency, someone else may have to find them.
- Who is the Home Emergencies poster for?
- Home Emergencies belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning property can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Home Emergencies poster?
- Find your stopcock and consumer unit today, not during a leak. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Home Emergencies belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Home Emergencies?
- Buying vs Renting, The Cost of Buying and Energy Efficiency sit alongside Home Emergencies in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Buying vs RentingThe Cost of BuyingEnergy Efficiency
- Is the Home Emergencies poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Home Emergencies downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Home Emergencies poster print at?
- Home Emergencies is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Home Emergencies loses nothing.Printing guide
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