Comments on: Space Heater Safety Tips

By: Haf

Haf — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:31:54 +0000

Ah yes, and we all remember the performance of Ned Flanders and his wife during a fire prevention information day, when they were playing a Hippie couple and Ned’s pants caught fire while showing the dangers of smoking in bed. ^^

By: Haf

Haf — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:26:16 +0000

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?

By: Haf

Haf — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:25:17 +0000

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.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:36:15 +0000

I wanna try turning on halogen using remote control

By: Jax143

Jax143 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:28:05 +0000

Heater deaths?

By: hl

hl — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:57:42 +0000

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.

By: dumbwhore

dumbwhore — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:48:04 +0000

and don’t use extension cords that aren’t of the proper rating. Almost caught my house on fire that way this year.

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:21:57 +0000

Great report on how to be careful of the obvious!

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:51:29 +0000

Central Heating – Look into it Japan.

Also, don’t electric heaters have a thermal overload sensor to prevent fires when they tip over or get covered by something?