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Maria, when I brought over electricals from the states, I had to get a transformer, which is great, but the inlet for the transformer is the round two pronged plug ins we use in turkey, but all my stuff had the american flat two/three pronged thinggies. The electrician that I bought the transformer from changed them all to the two round pronged ones. Another thing I had done, at the electricians urging....and i thought this was oh so clever......I had brought a bunch of christmas lights and what not when I moved, in the US we use 110, here we use 220, no problem said the electrician, he just hooked two together and made them 220......was that clever or what???

Most electricians will change the prongs for free if you have other work done, (well they have for me...I'm sure they will for you too....)

I recently had some under the cupboard lights installed in my kitchen, three of them to be exact, there was no wiring for them, nothing at all.....he charged me 20 lira. which i thought was a dammed good deal. When I moved in to my house and when i was having work done for some foreigners, the electrician I used must have ripped me off big time, he charged me 30 lira to install each chandelier/overhead light...... You can imagine how much that ended up costing me for a house with 3 bedrooms......

it's just easier to have the plugs changed on all things rather than use the adapter.

21st July 2008, 06:57	#4
pebble Senior Member	Re: Plugs/Adaptors and Light Switches Maria, when I brought over electricals from the states, I had to get a transformer, which is great, but the inlet for the transformer is the round two pronged plug ins we use in turkey, but all my stuff had the american flat two/three pronged thinggies. The electrician that I bought the transformer from changed them all to the two round pronged ones. Another thing I had done, at the electricians urging....and i thought this was oh so clever......I had brought a bunch of christmas lights and what not when I moved, in the US we use 110, here we use 220, no problem said the electrician, he just hooked two together and made them 220......was that clever or what??? Most electricians will change the prongs for free if you have other work done, (well they have for me...I'm sure they will for you too....) I recently had some under the cupboard lights installed in my kitchen, three of them to be exact, there was no wiring for them, nothing at all.....he charged me 20 lira. which i thought was a dammed good deal. When I moved in to my house and when i was having work done for some foreigners, the electrician I used must have ripped me off big time, he charged me 30 lira to install each chandelier/overhead light...... You can imagine how much that ended up costing me for a house with 3 bedrooms...... it's just easier to have the plugs changed on all things rather than use the adapter.