My brother and his wife learned a hard lesson this last week. Their house burned down...nothing left but ashes. They have good insurance, so the home will be replaced and most of the contents. That is the good news. However, they were sick when they found out the cause of the fire.
The insurance investigator sifted through the ashes for several hours. He had the cause of the fire traced to the master bathroom. He asked my sister-in-law what she had plugged in in the bathroom. She listed the normal things....curling iron, blow dryer. He kept saying to her, "No, this would be something that would disintegrate at high temperatures. " Then, my sister-in-law remembered she had a Glade Plug-in in the bathroom.
The investigator had one of those "Aha" moments.
He said that was the cause of the fire. He said he has seen more home fires started with the plug in type room fresheners than anything else. He said the plastic they are made from is a THIN plastic. He said in every case there was nothing left to prove that it even existed. When the
investigator looked in the wall plug, the two prongs left from the plug-in were still in there. My sister-in-law had one of the plug-ins that had a small night light built in it. She said she had noticed that the light would dim....and then finally go out. She would walk in a few hours later, and the light would be back on again. The investigator said that the unit was getting too hot, and would dim and go out rather than just blow the light bulb. Once it cooled down, it would come back on. That is a warning sign. The investigator said he personally wouldn't have any type of plug in fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen too many burned down homes.
Thought I would warn you all. I had several of them plugged in my house. I immediately took them all down.
now, the plug in fragreances here maybe better than yours in sone sense , but we've been doing this for years - sometims its turned off, most of the time its on.
you dont feel it getting hot... and i'm pretty sure the house hasnt burnt down yet..
i was hoping that SOOOOO MUCH. that all my brain power was put into hoping, and my arms, now useless withour my brain cpu cycles to control it, couldn't post how much i was hoping that woody is referring to the singer and not "other".
I assume you NOOBs know where the band "Steely Dan" got their name. Toy? In some circles a steely dan is refered to as a "power tool". WHAT THE HECK do you think I was refering to? Me sadly shakes head and ponders it all.
If you need to have air fresheners plugged in to cover up some smell, CLEAN THE F*****G HOUSE!
Next thing you know there will be some study in 10 years that you'll be 10,599 times more likely to get some disease due to the inhalation of the chemicals used in Glade and other air fresheners.
, but we've been doing this for years - sometims its turned off, most of the time its on.
Instant headache.