fire hazard: Don't burn down your home with those electric heaters! - 01/22/11 04:28 AM
A few years ago a little company was producing a neat little electric wall heater that was easily installed, relatively inexpensive and allowed wonderful zonal heating (read-"energy efficient")! Things were wonderful for sometime but like most things there were a few issues with the first models. The little electric heaters were made by the Cadet corporation and after the release to the general public it was discovered that if housekeeping was not top notch these little heaters had the tendency to overheat (read-"catch on fire" and there could be "flames, sparks or molten particles spewing through the front grill cover of the heaters into … (9 comments)

fire hazard: Bellybutton lint will not catch your house on fire....or will it? - 08/12/10 03:26 AM
Written by:  Jim Allhiser  President/Inspector
No this post is not actually about belly button lint but it is about a potential fire hazard in most homes. The consumer product safety commission estimated that in 1998 clothes dryers were associated with 15,600 fires, which resulted in 20 deaths and 370 injuries! A vast majority of these fires could have been prevented with a little home owner style maintenance. The duct work that exhausts all of that warm dryer air is usually the culprit, and as far as routine home owner maintenance, is usually completely forgotten about. Ideally these ducts should be hard and completely smooth.  This minimizes … (0 comments)