I will inform our mom about these safety tips for her space furnace
My mother likes to be in a warm and cozy room, however I like to be in a room that is freezing and then use a blanket or extra clothing to stay warm.
I am periodically baffled at why she prefers to be in the heat.
The Winters can be brutally cold, so I understand her need to want to stay warm. However, she uses a space furnace as well as the Heating, Ventilation, and A/C unit, which I recognize is a bit excessive. Periodically her room feels like a gas furnace because it is so hot. Though a space furnace is nice for certain situations, they are not the safest things to use for heating our homes. Space oil furnaces are responsible for 1,200 fires per year, which is a staggering number of fires for such a small device. I recognize those fires were caused by imcorrect use. There are a few safety tips for using space oil furnaces that are mentioned on the internet. They include but are not limited to, turning off the space furnace when you sleep or when you can’t monitor it, refrain from using extension cords or power strips because they could overheat, and check the furnace to make sure that it has safety measures in case of overheating. I chose these many tips because I don’t think our mom knows about them. I suppose for sure that she doesn’t suppose that it is hazardous to sleep with the space furnace unattended. Personally, I didn’t suppose that space oil furnaces shouldn’t be blocked into power strips or extension cords, but it makes a lot of sense. I don’t recognize our mom knows this either, so I will inform her of all these safety tips. I would like our mom to be as safe as possible, and avoid a potential fire while she uses her space furnace to stay warm.