Avoiding House Fire

In a house, the safety of your family always comes first. So you need to make sure that your house is safe from fire. In order to make sure, people hire a small construction company or a home inspector to check their house. If you hire a home inspector, it will check every part of your house that can possibly cause fire. If your house is on fire, all your belongings will possibly be burned and the worst thing is your family members will get hurt. House fire can injure or kill people, so you need to do something in order to make your house safe from fire.

Here are the tips on How to Avoid House Fire

As mentioned above, you should hire a person who has experience on electrical wiring. If you know how to check electrical system, you should check the breakers or fuse. You can also check if the lights in your house are blinking. It they are blinking, it is because of the electricity supply in your area or maybe it has a short circuit. You can also check every wire of your electronic appliances if they are fine.

Inspect your house

You also need to check the gas system in your house. Check the hose that connects the gas to the stove if there is a leak. You can easily identify if there are problems in your gas system if you can smell gas. Gas can easily make fire so you need to check and fix the problem immediately.

Check the LPG

Avoid putting flammable liquid near the things that can be source of ignition. For example, you put a bottle of gas beside the stove, and you open the stove. The possible thing that will happen is the gas will be ignited and it will create fire and the worst thing is explosion.

Don’t put flammable liquid near your gas stove

When you are tired from work and you feel sleepy, don’t smoke. For example, you lie down in bed with a cigarette in your mouth and you fall asleep. If your cigarette fall, it can lit up materials that can easily get burn like paper or cloth. All you need to do is make sure that you’ve finished smoking before you lie in bed. Also remember to clean your ash tray, because cigarette filters in your ash tray can possibly burn too.

Don’t smoke

You also need to be careful of candles and oil lamps especially when there is a block out or power shortage in your area. If you are going outside your room, make sure that you blow up the candle before you leave the room. There are possibilities that children and pets come to play the candle. If you want to light a candle overnight, make sure that there are no materials that can easily get burn around the candle.

Candles and oil lamps

If you are leaving your house or going out of town, make sure that all your electronic appliances are unplugged. In that way, you will avoid house fire especially if you have appliances that are overheating. Also unplug all the extension cords, especially if you have pets in your house. Your pet will possibly chew on the cord or urinating on it.

Unplug all your appliances

If you use a match to light up a candle, make sure to extinguish the match with water. Some people just throw the match that they use in the trashcan even if the match stick is still on fire. So the usual thing that happens is the trashcan also causes fire.

Be careful with matches

If you are hungry and you are tired or drunk, don’t cook. Just eat food that is ready to eat. For example, you cook using stove, and you fall asleep, the possible thing that will happen is the stove will leave unattended and it will surely burn your whole house.

Don’t cook when tired or drinking alcohol

There are also some ways to avoid house fire if the fire is already created. All you need to do is install a fire prevention system in your house. You need to have budget for the installation. What do you want? Let your house burn or spend money to make your house safe from burning?

Here are some Tools that you can use to Prevent Fire

This is very useful and reliable; it can extinguish fire even if you are at home or out of the house. A fire sprinkler has a temperature sensor, it automatically sprays water when the temperature that is predetermined has exceeded. Lots of buildings install fire sprinkler to secure the safety of their building from fire. It is advisable to install a fire sprinkler into a place where you usually use fire.

Install sprinkler

If you don’t have enough budgets for installing sprinkler in your house, you can buy a fire extinguisher. A fire extinguisher is use to extinguish small flame. For example, you are cooking and you cannot control the fire coming from the stove, you can use fire extinguisher to extinguish the fire. A fire extinguisher is not effective in a huge fire. Always remember the place of your fire extinguisher, in that way you will quickly respond in the part of your house that is burning.

Fire extinguisher

You also need to teach your kids not play with matches or lighters. There are some times that your kids play fire and don’t even bother to distinguish the fire. If there are some trees around your house, you should also dispose of dried leaves, they can also burn easily. As mentioned above, you need to hire a home inspector to check your house if your electrical wiring or gas system has no problems. If you are planning to build a house and you want it to be perfect, I recommend Macro Building Solutions because they provide a high quality service and they will surely give what you need.