Space Heater Safety Tips
January 17th, 2009 by James
A few tips on how to avoid fire hazards when using space heaters this winter:
1. Do not hang laundry close to your space heater. If a piece of laundry such as a towel were to fall on top of the heater, it could start a fire.
2. If you go to sleep with your heater on, make sure it is a safe distance from your sleeping area. If a futon or blanket comes into contact with the heater, it could start a fire.
3. Turn off your gas heater before refilling its tank. If you leave it on while pouring gas into the tank, spillage could cause a fire.
4. Always unplug heaters when they aren’t in use. The halogen heater shown in the video has a tendency to turn itself on when somebody nearby uses a TV remote control.
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Also, don’t electric heaters have a thermal overload sensor to prevent fires when they tip over or get covered by something?
Great report on how to be careful of the obvious!
and don’t use extension cords that aren’t of the proper rating. Almost caught my house on fire that way this year.
I have central heat.
Although I avoid the fire hazard of a space heater I have to have carbon monoxide detectors in my home otherwise if something went wrong I would probably never know until it was too late.
That’s a serious thing. MY sister once almost died from carbon monoxide in her bathroom due to a water heater working with gas not being calibrated correctly.
Heater deaths?
I wanna try turning on halogen using remote control
I don’t get this – are those heaters usually also remote controlled or does the halogen react with the infrared beam from the remote control in some way or what?