How To Protect Remote Control From Breaking Or Damaged [5 Tips]

It is very often getting damaged the things quickly that we are using daily. One of the product that we are using daily is a remote control of TV, or a universal remote control for all devices. Breaking a remote is common. But when we care a little bit, we can extend the life of our remote control. Here in this post, You will learn how to protect remote control from breaking or getting damaged. How to take care for your remote control and add extra life for it.

Breaking remote control may due to many reason. How we are handling the remote control?, it’s placement, protect cover, due to child in the home, Due to pet in the home, due to low quality brand replacement remotes etc. If you take care of some of the solution I am going to mention here, you can easily protect remote from breaking or damaged.

How To Protect Remote Control From Breaking Or Damaged

Use remote control guard or Flip [Remote case]
Wrapping remote with a plastic wrapper
Do not smack remote when remote is not working due to battery drainage
Use remote control holder
Keep away from kids and pets

Use Remote Control Guard or Flip Cover [Remote Case]

use remote guard to protect remote control from breaking

Covering remote control with a remote case or a flip cover is the number one recommendation to protect a remote control from breaking. This is very common using a flip cover or a plastic or fiber case for a remote control immediately after buying remote. This will increase the life of remote. Using a flip remote cover will protect remote control from any physical threat.

Suppose if you are watching tv and your remote control fall in the ground. It may break it’s physical body, LED light or any inner component based on the force of falling. You can reduce the breakage when you have put your remote control in a case or flip cover. Your remote even don’t get a scratch when using Flip cover.

Using a remote cover is very simple. Just need to push the side panels, which are connected each other with a elastic belt. Force between the side panel, and then insert your remote within it, and relax the side covers. The remote will be fit within the case. Now your remote control is safe from breakage by falling down.

Wrapping Remote With A Plastic Wrapper

Wrapping remote control with a plastic wrap is the one another solution to protect remote from physical damage. Many of users are not interested in using remote guard, but when using a stylish transparent plastic wrap will protect your remote control from scratch, reduce the power of physical damage when fall down. Using a plastic wrap will not give as much protection when compared with remote guard, still you can use plastic wrap.

Using plastic wrap will block any dust particles to enter to the inner side of your remote. Dust particles will enter in to remote through the small entrance on the remote buttons, and between the side cap. If your remote has fallen and the the remote cap got detached a little bit. then it is enough for the dust particles to enter in to the remote control and accumulate in the remote boards as well as in button back, thus will get damaged.

Do you know how to wrap remote with a plastic wrapper in a beautiful way? Take a clear and clean plastic wrapper. Take a thick card board and cut as per the dimension of remote. We need only the under portion and side portion of the remote covered with the card paper. cover backside and sides of remote and place the remote control inside the wrapper. fold wrapper neatly and the end portion should come backside of the remote control. Then use a cello tape hold the wrapped end with backside of remote. Now your remote control safe from breaking. you can use wrapper itself to protect your remote control.

What any other way wrapping your remote control will helps in damaging? If you are watching TV on drinking water or tea, and your remote control is beneath you. There is great chance of getting water content in remote control in any case. so when you wrap it, you can save remote control from getting damaged.

Do not smack remote when not working due to battery drainage

stop smacking remote to protect from breaking

Smacking the remote with hand is a common practice when sometime it is not working. This should be stopped to protect remote. Remote working may be due to battery drainage, so instead of replacing the battery, smacking will harm to remotes. smacking a remote will get damaged due to the physical threat. There is high chance of the remote button and the circuit board inside remote get damaged when we smack the remote. so this should be stopped.

Think wisely, just check the battery drainage issue when your remote is not working. replace the battery and then check whether it is working. So smacking the remote control with your hand will damage your remote control.

Use Remote Control Holder

There should be a proper place for remote control in your home. The best idea to provide a place for remote control is using a remote control holder. Remote control holder is a vessel that you can simply put remote in it. This remote holder can be fixed anywhere in your home. You can place in a wall or can place in a showcase.

Why i am recommending you to use a remote holder? Do you know? the reason is when you place remote control in somewhere, that may be in your seat, sofa set etc. So it is high chance you come and sit above remote control without knowing you. That may result remote control breaking. So to avoid this situation, best way is to use remote control holder.

Also make a routine to place the remote control in remote control holder after using it.

Keep Away From Kids and Pets

keep remote control away from kids and pets

To protect our remote control from breaking, we need to keep it away from very small kid and our pets. I am here talking about the kids below 5 years age. They usually playing with the remote control and will smash in the ground. Also, there is higher chance of falling the remote control from their hand. It is no issue when using kids above 5 years old, since they can understand to not to smack it on ground as you advice them.

If you are using remote guard that i mentioned above, if your kid somehow taken the remote control and fell down. There is less chance of getting it break according to the force of falling down. So i am always recommending you to use a remote guard for complete remote protection.

Conclusion

If you are take care of the above mentioned tips, you can protect your remote control from breaking. These are the common reason your remote getting damaged. when you are taking these precautions, i am sure, your remote control will there for long time, and there is less chance you need a replacement remote control. In fact, one remote control can stay without any issue for 4-5 years when you are using with these tips.

Anyway, I hope you have like the tips to get rid from its damage. I am always advice to my shop customers to take care with these when they buy a remote control from my shop. When they accept my recommendation, they immediately will buy a remote guard from me. Many of my customers that are not using a remote guard will return to buy one another remote control after 5-6 months. That is because of they are not using a remote guard, not using any safety measures etc. In short, when you are spending a small amount of money to buy a remote guard, you can save more money in future to buy a replacement remote control.

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