Tips to consider for safe heating during the winter

Arab Weather -tattabr means different heating of the most important ways that bring and provide warmth to humans during the winter , but the misuse may turn it into a curse on the human, threatening his life and the lives of his family.

As the cold winter nights begin for many months, it is necessary to know how to deal carefully with different types of heating, so that the winter passes safely without incident that poses a danger to the lives of individuals and families.

Here are a set of tips and warnings explaining how to deal with heating means, which should be adhered to ensure health and safety during the winter:

General tips:

• Choose a suitable location to place the fireplace where it does not hinder movement and you are likely to fall on furniture or carpets.
• Observe children, avoid being left alone and play near fireplaces.
• Avoid placing the heater near curtains and flammable materials.
• Do not use the heater for cooking, heating or drying clothes, especially when children are around.
• Monitor the heater constantly and do not go to sleep as it is burning for fear of fire or suffocation.
• Maintaining a suitable and usable fire blanket and practicing its use.

With the variety of heaters used during the winter, you should know how to treat each type according to its nature

Tips for using a kerosene heater:

• Kerosene heaters should not be left burning during sleep, for fear of increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as well as increasing toxic carbon monoxide that replaces oxygen in the blood leading to suffocation.
• Do not use the kerosene heater in the bathroom while bathing, which increases the proportion of toxic and suffocating gases resulting from the combustion process.
• Stay away from filling the heaters with kerosene during ignition; this increases the flame suddenly, which leads to a fire.

Tips for handling the electric fireplace:

• - Avoid connecting the electric heater to exposed and bad wires that may cause electrical contact.
• - Avoid overloading electrical wires and connectors.
• - It is preferable when acquiring an electric fireplace to choose the types that are separated when they fall and that meet the standards of quality and safety.

Tips when using a wood fireplace:

• Ignite the firewood in the fireplace outside the place where the family is present until it is completely ignited and the smoke from it is interrupted, with the need to maintain proper ventilation.
• Do not leave the fireplace inside the room when finished and extinguished outside the house.

Tips for dealing with a gas heater:

• Check the hose connecting the cylinder to the heater body and replace the "sealing" seal with each cylinder, in addition to the need to ensure the validity of the valve as this reduces the risk.
• When using a gas heater we must make sure that the gas does not leak before igniting it. Make sure the cylinder is closed properly when turned off.

Peat heating should:

• Avoid burning peat inside the house, and work to ignite it outside to get rid of the thick smoke resulting from the beginning of combustion and then transferred to the inside by carriers.
• With regard to the use of peat in greenhouses, it must be cleaned continuously, since the products of combustion of peat material leaves impurities saturated with fat working to close and damage the ventilation outlets for these greenhouses.