SAFETY NOTES - A SHORT LIST

11.15.07

• Check your tires' pressures: I am seeing a lot of underinflated tires.



• Have your boiler serviced: a new fuel filter, plus other new parts may save you from a misfiring, start failure, or even the dreaded "puff back", later.



• Draining your plumbing but leaving the heat on-low? Pour a couple of cups of swimming pool/RV antifreeze into all your sinks, DW, toilets, and tubs so they don’t freeze up should the power fail for more than 36 hours or so.



• Keep your heat between 50-55 degrees, for "closed", but heated, homes. This will maintain a proper buffer for 98% of any power failure periods around the NW corner during the cold Winter months.



• Wood stove chimneys should be cleaned more than once during a high-use heating system, especially if damped down and burned low for long periods. Soot build-up is the primary potential cause of chimney fires.



• NEVER close a flue damper until a fire is completely out! Believe it or not, this has been done (with fire places still "warm", with very bad consequences.



• If you have a well sealed (older) home, and are using a fireplace or wood stove, be sure you have some source for allowing some fresh air into a home.



• Finally, keep fresh batteries in your smoke detectors; don’t take dead batteries out without replacing them.

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Enjoy a safe, problem free winter.


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