Assalamualaikum and happy Sunday!
When we moved in to Perth, basically I brought everything from Malaysia. As small as spoon and toothbrush to big as king size bed and 6 seater sofa. It is cheaper to purchase them from Malaysia rather than buying in Australia. And plus, my husband's company complimented him with sea shipment and air shipment to Malaysia. We have a container to fill up our belongings and of course I leveraged it.
I brought in the electrical goods as well for the usage in Australia. As Australia's voltage is almost the same as Malaysia, it shouldn't be a problem to use the electrical goods from Malaysia in Australia. But hang on there. Perhaps we wouldn't face any short circuit, but we faced few minor difficulties. First, you need plug converter. This is easily get in Malaysia. We bought mostly from ACE hardware shop. You could get them in Tesco or Carrefour or any hardware shop.
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| Plug converter |
Second is with the television. Please be informed that Australia had switched off analog TV signals, meaning that only digital TV signal is used. But no worries, you can always get the Top Box to receive tv channels if you are using analog signal TV. We bought the top box from Dick Smith store. You just need to plug in the you TV into the top box and plug in the top box to the antenna plug. With that top box too, you will receive 99 free channels. It is enough for us and we don't subscribe to FOXTEL, the only satellite tv provider across Australia. The monthly fees is high and we don't encourage our kids to watch tv too much. Plus, we can always streaming from internet if we want to watch movies. Problem solved!
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| Top Box: view from back |
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| Top box: Front view |
Another headache is with washing machine. In Australia, they have to water taps; hot water and cold water. But in Malaysia, we have only one; cold water. Therefore, the pipe attached to the washing machine couldn't resist hot water and you'll damage the pipe if you put water running through it. Only plug in your pipe to cold water tap.
In Australia, the outlet water pipe should be attached to the sink. Usually Australia houses have laundry area where there is a sink next to the place where they recommended you to place your washing machine. At the sink, they provided a hole for you to attached your outlet water pipe and water will straight go into the drain. But the washing machine that I brought from Malaysia can't apply that method. The outlet water pipe has to lay down horizontally on the ground. If not, the water can't go up as there is no pressure to make the water goes up. To solve the problem, we bought a pipe that connect to the outlet water pipe to the drain outside of our house. problem solve. But the permanent issue that you have to face is that you have to let the door opens all the time you do use the washing machine. As whenever go through winter in Australia yet, but cold only imagine how cold our house to be as we have to let the door open freely for a good hour during the washing. Haish!
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| Water inlet |
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| Water outlet hole at the sink, not suitable use for washing machine from Malaysia |
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| Water outlet pipe is connect to pipe extension that help water to be released into drain outside of the house |
So far, those two are the problem we face in using electrical goods from Malaysia in Australia. Hopefully this post will help you if you are going to move to Australia from Malaysia.
