Winter Season Safety Guidelines for Heating Your Kansas City Home

Did you know that the 2nd cause of home fires is heat your home, according to the United States Fire Administration. 

It is also a little known fact that most home fires are preventable.

As the cold weather starts flowing into Kansas City, follow these winter home safety tips to keep your family and home safe:

• Due to the high heat and the buildup of creosote, people who burn wood in their fireplace or wood burning stove should have their chimneys or flues cleaned out yearly by an chimney cleaning expert. High uses of wood burning may require additional chimney cleanings. 
• Burn only well-seasoned, dry wood in your fireplace or wood burning stove.
• Dispose of fireplace ashes properly - never put ashes in or near something that could burn, like plastic garbage bags, cardboard boxes, etc.
• SPACE HEATERS NEED SPACE!  Keep them at least three feet away from curtains, blankets, clothes and other items that could catch on fire. Unplug the heater when finished, leaving home or before sleeping.
• Have furnaces checked at the beginning of winter by a HVAC expert. 
• Keep all materials, like newspapers, boxes, rags, etc., at least three feet from any heating appliance (fireplace, wood burning stove, furnace, water heater, etc.).
• Always keep children and pets away from fireplaces, wood burning stoves, space heaters, furnaces and water heaters.
• Never use a stove or oven as a home heating device.

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Blog post written by the Dowell Taggart Team of RE/MAX Premier Realty 

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