Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Code Safety Considerations With Home Heating Systems Upgrades

By Walter H. Stevens


As a homeowner if you home is lucky enough to employ a centralized heating system at home, it can be easily upgraded whenever you wish to expand an area in your house. But before making revisions at home, consider the area of your room and the size of the duct system design.

Fire prevention starts at home with your family. Parents and siblings should know and take responsibility to prevent fire accident that can happen at any time. It's as simple as that. A fire with devastating consequences for all can happen in a flash and yet prevented with a small amount of planning foresight and follow through all of the family members must be aware that safety simply starts at home.A major role of fire departments is not only in fire fighting but in fire prevention. A penny spent in project preparation in terms of fire and accident prevention yields tens of thousands of dollars in cost savings overall. Hence take the time when planning your project and working with tradespeople on fire prevention both in terms of installation and later safe use of your home heating appliances.

First of all inspect your home and business areas the way a trained fire marshal would. Survey the landscape and real estate so to speak. Inside your room, curtains must not pull over or even be near or nearby fire stimulating materials like lit candles, ashtrays and electrical bulbs. One additional area of concern is halogen type light bulbs. Halogen bulbs run at tremendously hotter and warmer temperatures than simple standard incandescent and certainly electrical ballast fluorescent bulb types. Just a drape hanging nearby a hot halogen bulb can result in a catastrophic fire situation. Halogen electrical bulbs must be replaced in a certain manner and technique. The bulb must be handled with special technique - as if you were a trained electrical heating and plumbing technician. No oil from your hands can leave any residue on the lighting surface what so ever. Otherwise the bulb can actually explode propelling hot furnace temperature like glass fragments which can even start a fire themselves. On top of that is a glass protective cover to prevent such fires, and as well act as safety screen so that the hot parts from a halogen lamp bulb explosion are shielded from injuring your face. Always take the extra care to replace the glass safety cover, along with its two or perhaps three screws. If you do not know or are not certain then by all means do not use the appliance. Call for help and assistance from a more qualified and trained individual or actual repair technician remember fires around the home can happen in an instant. It's not as if you have an hour or two,

Always normalize the air-flows on your house during heating system upgrade. It will help you to know the diameter of the duct system, amount of airflow produced at the furnace and heated location, and lastly, the total length of the duct runs. The upgraded heating system will not work properly if it has not been accurately computed.

Remember always that safety around the home is everybody's concern. Fires can happen in a flash of an instant. It is not as if you have an hour or two when fire begins to rage and time to take action. Prevention when it comes to home fire prevention is key. Simple as that.




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