Home Appliances

Home heating appliances use heating elements that can create fires if they touch combustible materials. For example, if someone puts a wooden object in front of an electric heater, that heater can overheat and create a dangerous fire. Also, various heating appliances use combustible materials as fuel, which can cause fires themselves. Although many property owners turn to alternative methods of home heating to supplement normal house heating, these alternative methods can cause house fires if they are used improperly.

Effective Cleaning

Property owners must make sure that they clean home heating appliances because buildups of various materials, such as carbon, can encourage fires.

Clear Ventilation

When burning any kind of fuel, property owners must make sure that they have appropriate ventilation. Poor ventilation can lead to a buildup of materials that can catch fire when hot air rises into the ventilation shaft.

Refueling

All refueling must occur outside the home so that spills do not cause fires that can ignite the larger number of combustibles inside the home than outside. Also, most fossil fuel spills clean up easier outside or do not need cleanup at all if the spill occurs on soil.

Heater Clearance

Homeowners must make sure that their heating appliances always have space to release the heat. Placing objects, such as clothing, in front of a heater, creates a fire hazard. Oftentimes, homeowners do not realize their wall heaters, which might have objects in front of them, can cause fires.

Evening Check

Property owners should check their heating appliances before going to bed. They should always extinguish fires and should make sure that the appliances have no objects blocking the heating element.

Qualified Professionals

Homeowners should not repair heating appliances themselves but should instead have qualified professionals repair the heating appliances. Poorly repaired appliances can lead to fire hazards.

Unobstructed Escape

Homeowners must always make sure that they can exit their homes during fires.

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