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Candle safety and why you needz it

beerftw

beerftw

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Alright MY friend has a wife, who recently got into a craze of scented candles. She would light them all over the house harmless right?? Well wrong, she nearly burned the house down. She lit them everywhere, and one of them was next to the drapes. The drapes caught fire and luckily he had plenty of fire extinguishers around the house to put it out plus caught it in time before it burned everything else.

Maybe it is me, maybe I get baffled by people not knowing an open flame can ignite stuff. I grew up with alot of power outages, and we used candles and oil lamps alot. By default we put them in the center of the room on a table, where animals or kids could not knock it over, and where the flame could not jump to other flammable things.

I still keep candles for emergency over led lights, but I often place then in safer areas, and even use candle lanterns which not only offer better lighting, but keep the flame contained. I can never understand how someone could be so careless to keep open flames near drapes and other things.
 
beerftw said:
Alright MY friend has a wife, who recently got into a craze of scented candles. She would light them all over the house harmless right?? Well wrong, she nearly burned the house down. She lit them everywhere, and one of them was next to the drapes. The drapes caught fire and luckily he had plenty of fire extinguishers around the house to put it out plus caught it in time before it burned everything else.

Maybe it is me, maybe I get baffled by people not knowing an open flame can ignite stuff. I grew up with alot of power outages, and we used candles and oil lamps alot. By default we put them in the center of the room on a table, where animals or kids could not knock it over, and where the flame could not jump to other flammable things.

I still keep candles for emergency over led lights, but I often place then in safer areas, and even use candle lanterns which not only offer better lighting, but keep the flame contained. I can never understand how someone could be so careless to keep open flames near drapes and other things.
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A good reminder for all of us. I've left the house with a candle burning. Frankly, now I mostly use the tiny battery candles for mood. The scented ones occasionally used make me nervous. Fine post.
 
beerftw said:
Alright MY friend has a wife, who recently got into a craze of scented candles. She would light them all over the house harmless right?? Well wrong, she nearly burned the house down. She lit them everywhere, and one of them was next to the drapes. The drapes caught fire and luckily he had plenty of fire extinguishers around the house to put it out plus caught it in time before it burned everything else.

Maybe it is me, maybe I get baffled by people not knowing an open flame can ignite stuff. I grew up with alot of power outages, and we used candles and oil lamps alot. By default we put them in the center of the room on a table, where animals or kids could not knock it over, and where the flame could not jump to other flammable things.

I still keep candles for emergency over led lights, but I often place then in safer areas, and even use candle lanterns which not only offer better lighting, but keep the flame contained. I can never understand how someone could be so careless to keep open flames near drapes and other things.
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Sad to hear your friend had such an experience but glad they might learn from it, so could others. We have one scented candle burning. On the dining room table, on a metal trivet. My wife is paranoid about a candle fire and takes somewhat excessive extra care. Better though to be safe than crispy.
 
Renae said:
Sad to hear your friend had such an experience but glad they might learn from it, so could others. We have one scented candle burning. On the dining room table, on a metal trivet. My wife is paranoid about a candle fire and takes somewhat excessive extra care. Better though to be safe than crispy.
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Luckily for them, it did no damage to the drywall other than a black soot mark, so they needed to scrub as much soot as possible and re prime and paint, and replace the drapes. Had he not walked in and seen it, it might have spread through the whole house.
 
beerftw said:
Alright MY friend has a wife, who recently got into a craze of scented candles. She would light them all over the house harmless right?? Well wrong, she nearly burned the house down. She lit them everywhere, and one of them was next to the drapes. The drapes caught fire and luckily he had plenty of fire extinguishers around the house to put it out plus caught it in time before it burned everything else.

Maybe it is me, maybe I get baffled by people not knowing an open flame can ignite stuff. I grew up with alot of power outages, and we used candles and oil lamps alot. By default we put them in the center of the room on a table, where animals or kids could not knock it over, and where the flame could not jump to other flammable things.

I still keep candles for emergency over led lights, but I often place then in safer areas, and even use candle lanterns which not only offer better lighting, but keep the flame contained. I can never understand how someone could be so careless to keep open flames near drapes and other things.
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That's the problem about forbidding Christmas tree candles instead of socialising children to be aware of the associated dangers.
 
joG said:
That's the problem about forbidding Christmas tree candles instead of socialising children to be aware of the associated dangers.
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I had to google christmas tree candles, and holy crap that is a fire waiting to happen, even fore safety minded people.
 
I fell asleep one night with a candle lit and woke up to it going off like a roman candle. I don't know how exactly it happened but it was down to the very bottom and started shooting sparks everywhere. You'd think the candle producers would take that into consideration during the design process.
 
beerftw said:
I had to google christmas tree candles, and holy crap that is a fire waiting to happen, even fore safety minded people.
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Yep. Over protection is very detrimental.
 
JC Callender said:
I fell asleep one night with a candle lit and woke up to it going off like a roman candle. I don't know how exactly it happened but it was down to the very bottom and started shooting sparks everywhere. You'd think the candle producers would take that into consideration during the design process.
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If you had a candle going off like a romancandle you experienced a miracle. ;)
 
There is another issue, albeit not fatal, is some cheap candles let off a lot of soot that gets on drapes, walls, carpets, and is waxy and nearly impossible to get out without dry cleaning or repainting.
 
My wife will light candles, and then forget them. She loves, loves, LOVES Yankee candle, the jars. Where she puts them is fine, perfectly safe. But she'll forget them. Every time, I make a big show about putting them out, to remind her.
 
I love candles. And Bath and Body Works Wallflowers. Those bulbs have to be watched too.
 
KevinKohler said:
My wife will light candles, and then forget them. She loves, loves, LOVES Yankee candle, the jars. Where she puts them is fine, perfectly safe. But she'll forget them. Every time, I make a big show about putting them out, to remind her.
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You do realize your wife is NOT forgetting to put the candles out. You are the designated candle snuff.
 
I've got a scented candle running right now. But I'm not an idiot and I don't leave it lit when it's unattended and it certainly isn't anywhere that it can light anything on fire. Stupid people deserve what stupid people get.
 
KevinKohler said:
My wife will light candles, and then forget them. She loves, loves, LOVES Yankee candle, the jars. Where she puts them is fine, perfectly safe. But she'll forget them. Every time, I make a big show about putting them out, to remind her.
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I actually was trying to google how often stuff like candle fires happens, then ran across exploding candles mentioned and googled that. It turns out glass jar scented candles have a tendency to explode if left unnatended, and yankee candles being the worst offender due to low quality glass.

It usually occurs from the glass getting too hot, which causes it to shatter sending liquid was and fire everywhere. The other common issues are candles with holders that heat up too much, like ceramic holders. Apparently companies like yankee have done pretty much nothing over the issue, while others recalled theirs.

They basically say you can not run those candles for extended time and you can not run them too close to the bottom.
 
We stopped lighting candles after my wife's cat caught itself on fire.

Twice.
 
beerftw said:
Alright MY friend has a wife, who recently got into a craze of scented candles. She would light them all over the house harmless right?? Well wrong, she nearly burned the house down. She lit them everywhere, and one of them was next to the drapes. The drapes caught fire and luckily he had plenty of fire extinguishers around the house to put it out plus caught it in time before it burned everything else.

Maybe it is me, maybe I get baffled by people not knowing an open flame can ignite stuff. I grew up with alot of power outages, and we used candles and oil lamps alot. By default we put them in the center of the room on a table, where animals or kids could not knock it over, and where the flame could not jump to other flammable things.

I still keep candles for emergency over led lights, but I often place then in safer areas, and even use candle lanterns which not only offer better lighting, but keep the flame contained. I can never understand how someone could be so careless to keep open flames near drapes and other things.
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This is why I only use Luminara candles. They look exactly like real candles and it's okay to leave them on as long as you want.

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