How to protect your home from fire: recommendations pros

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Firefighters in Arizona have released training manual "Seven steps to protect the house from fire." It provides a list of events, it is strongly recommended to American homeowners. In addition to these, we have assembled the best recommendations of consultants and participants FORUMHOUSE and prepared an article that It will help you understand how much your house and land are protected from fire and what else you can do for your safety families.

Content

• How to make a site invulnerable to fire
• What to consider when buying a plot in order to avoid fire
• How to design a site from the point of view of fire safety
• How to influence neighbors

Memo to US homeowners

Here are some recommendations to give firefighters homeowners in Arizona:

• Above the roof and over the wires do not hang the branches of trees. Very often they carry fire into the house from outside the area. From the forest or from neighbors.
• What would not say your inner esthete, promptly remove dead leaves, and not only in the autumn: the ones that attacked in the summer, too, need to immediately clean up. If the leaves are dried directly on the tree or shrub, trim them with branches.
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• The roof and gutters should be kept clean. No dry leaves, grass, twigs - anything that can catch fire.
• Here these dry grasses and other plants that look great in rockeries and gardens in a natural style, perfectly spread fire. Abandoning them, we reduce the risk of fire.
•  Do not forget the regular sanitary pruning of shrubs and trees, cut off the dead branches, especially those that are no higher than two meters from the ground. So the tree will be more likely not catch fire when the fire will go on dry grass.
• Check the fire hose and pump should be regularly, at the right time, they did not disappoint.
• Another point where many homeowners are showing a surprising nonchalance: the spilled fuel. During refueling garden equipment should be extremely careful, and if the fuel is still spilled, all the spots you need to immediately rinse thoroughly.

What to consider when buying a plot

Member FORUMHOUSE with the nickname Directory, Fire inspector, told a few stories actually took place, which proves that we can not relax never, security must be established in the top corner!

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Axiom №1: Lights all! In general, all! Lit tree, lit oil burning metal, burning water!
Axiom №2: 99% of the wine fires lies with the person.
Axiom №3: 99,9% of large fires can be extinguished once glass of water.

In principle, reduce the risk of fire can have on the stage of the purchase of land for the construction of future homes. There are a number of points, which significantly increase the risk of fire. It:

• industrial facilities near the site. Our party provides the following fact: the explosion of PBC-20000 on LPS smashed windows in the houses at a distance of 1.5 km from the epicenter of the explosion;
• near portion extends main pipeline;
• military warehouse at a distance of 10-15 kilometers.

Our expert advice: if next to your site is one of the above objects, it is necessary to be prepared for an emergency with all the consequences.

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I'm not trying to scare anyone, but to have a home with triple glazing, facing in the direction of the explosive object, I would suggest. And if there is a military depots, and the presence of a basement with high ceilings can not hurt.

But there is good news.

Our expert says that the probability of a fire in a detached house is always much lower than in an apartment (if certain conditions are met).

In this case, the greater the floors in the house, the higher the probability of a fire, and the worse the consequences. And with a dense urban environment, say the data statistics, more likely it is that the machine will burn, and not flat.

In any case, the life of the city from this point of view is much safer.

How to protect against wildfire

For information on how to reduce the threat the effects of wildfires for the residents of countryside, we FORUMHOUSE told in detail. The fact that the proximity of a beautiful forest to the site may result in dire consequences, you should always remember. However, owners of any site must adhere to the following rules in his country life:

• When designing a site, make fire breaks.

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My colleague told me how extinguished the bath at their summer cottage and a house, which stood three meters, the temperature start to fall off the paint. We had to divert the entire machine to prevent fire spread.

• To build a house so that the houses to all the neighbors were at least 6 meters.

Between her and the neighbor's house is right to plant trees (in case of fire they will take part in the temperature itself, and it is it can save the house), but also more correct - to build a fence from a brick that is longer than the height of both the house and a minimum of 70 cm thick.

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You will not believe it - he called a firewall.

In conclusion, our expert surprised that buying land, people consider frost heave, but I did not think about the likelihood of fires.

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Frost heave a maximum lead to unpleasant cracks in the walls, but fire can destroy your house, the neighbor's house and the entire settlement on the vine.

Forcing a neighbor to fire safety 

Neighbors - is generally a separate topic. Well, if you live next to the responsible people who share your values ​​and are willing to cooperate. There are very unpleasant situation, so our user with the nickname Dgorg66 neighbor a meter away from his bar-shaped house has put the cup container for diesel fuel.

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Capacity close to my fence, and that's annoying.

Is it possible to get a neighbor to transfer capacity, this is not the building, fire and distance do not apply here? Yes really. As FORUMHOUSE consultant says lawyer Vasily Gutsev with the nickname Dremlin, A neighbor easily lead to a sense of judgment. Here is the sequence of actions:

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Neighbor a letter demanding the transfer, in case of default - in court, where do fire-technical examination and the court on the basis of its rules on the transfer (if the threat will be installed).

Contacting a legally recommended, but as an alternative measure. In the experience of members of our portal, in response to statements by individuals often receive letters on the subject "is not our competence."

conclusions

As we now know, in individual homes fires occur less frequently than in the apartment. Here are the main causes of fires in private homes:

• Careless handling of fire (bad barbecues, bonfires in dry weather, the abandoned cigarette butts);
• Faulty fireplaces and stoves (and chimneys!);
• Faulty appliances or careless handling.

All these reasons - in the area of ​​our control, we can eliminate them. Reduce the risk of fire due to reasons beyond our control, we can, if we keep in order plot (cut dry twigs, leaves clean, make sure that there was no stains from spilled fuel), and most importantly, we will take into account the risk factors when buying a plot and plan houses and hozpostroek).

Read up on our website, how to prevent fatal errors, projecting chimney and what if the house is still on fire. Find out what makes the members of our portal, to improve fire safety of their homes. If the house will suffer in the fire part, it will be useful video about how remake old house.

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