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8 Tips For Preventing Home Heating Fires

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Heating systems have come a long way in these years, but the risk of your home catching fire from them is there. However, with the help of potent heating repair services, you can easily avoid them. This article will help you understand how you can avoid such accidents with 8 tips. But if you're not sure how to minimize the risk from heating systems, give the best furnace repair in Austin a call.

Tips for preventing Home Heating Fires

  • Regular Furnace Inspection

Hire a professional to regularly check up on your furnace. Most of the time, the fire starts inside the furnace. Be sure that you have all the ducts properly cleaned. If you're looking for a professional inspection of your furnace, give us a call here at Grande Air Solutions. You can find us at furnace services near you.

  • Cleaning the Chimney

This you can do yourself. Frequently clean your chimney with a sweeping creosote log if you don't want to hire a professional chimney sweep. Clean your Chimney at least 12 or more times a year. Clean it thoroughly of soot and creosote.

  • Check for Structural Damage

This is actually hard for an untrained individual to do. When you're cleaning your chimney, you need to look for structural damage within the chimney. Sometimes small but acute damage can escape a layperson's eyes. So it is best to hire a professional to clean it and check simultaneously for damage.

  • Diffusion Screen

Using a diffusion screen with your fireplace is a really convenient way to avoid fire accidents. If you have carpets or wooden floors near your fireplace, you must use a diffuse screen to prevent logs from rolling onto them or sparks of amber landing outside the fireplace. A diffusion screen will minimize the chance of such accidents.

  • Be Cautious with your Space Heaters

Space heaters are a fire hazard, according to the US fire administration. They have said, evidently, 74 percent of the fire-related deaths originate from space heaters every year in the US. If you cannot do without a space heater, buy one with an emergency cut-off. An emergency cut-off turns the heater off if it's knocked down or tipped over. This will prevent something from catching fire from a toppled-down space heater.

Be sure to place a space heater on a non-flammable surface and never leave it unattended. Be sure to place it far away from any flammable stuff like wooden furniture or curtains.

  • Water Heater

An old water heater starts to deteriorate, and its thermostat becomes irregular as well. This can cause the flame to be inconsistent and cause a flash fire, especially if the water heater is placed in an open place, like a garage, where the air supply changes from time to time.

  • Boiler

Place your Boiler away from any flammable substance and give it a lot of space.

  • Home Insurance

This is your last resort. If your house does catch fire, you'll need good home insurance to replace your life and your home.

Grande Air Solutions will always try our best so that it doesn't come to that. So to ensure the safety of your house and the people you love from home heating fires, contact us at 512-677-4424.

Matthew Burnside
2022-11-07
Excellent company. Does everything the right way and honest. Use them yearly.
James McNulty
2022-11-02
Jaime at Grande Air was a pro. The AC check-up was both less costly and way more thorough than the competitions I called. Save yourself some time and book these guys today.
Veronica Bonilla
2022-10-25
Jaime had the thorough knowledge to explain step by step the issue so we can understand what the problem was. His professionalism and great customer service made us not think twice that we were in good hands. After several quotes and run around with other companies, we are now customers of Grande. Grande has our business and look forward to the next maintenance. Thank you Jaime and Grande!
Raquel Gomez
2022-10-21
Jaime was here and was very professional and provides me with great service. He was very informative and very knowledgeable.
Iris Alejo
2022-10-20
They ar awesome always their when I need them.
Jeannie Winters
2022-10-15
My husband was very impressed with the service we were given and said the Tech was very knowledgeable and came straight to us first thing in the morning when we called after business hours the night before. Our AC was not blowing cold air and he fixed it easily and told us that our system was still under warranty so all we had to pay for was labor. Now were cool and happy in Texas hot October nights lol
Araceli Xochitla
2022-10-11
Excelente servicio
Amilcar AKA Tegou
2022-09-26
Carlos was super professional and savvy. Highly recommended.

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