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Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 12 of 12 A Checklist, if your a First Time Home Buyer or a Move up Home Buyer, fire safety sure should be a major concern to you, and your family.

The U.S. has one of the highest fire death rates in the industrialized world. Home fires sure can endup causen death and injury. Last year in the United States.

There were 3,320 folks that lost their lives as a result of fires.

There were 16,705 folks injured as the result of a fire.

There were 118 firefighters killed while on duty.

Fire killed more Americans than all natural disasters combined.

Eighty four percent of the deaths occurred in homes.

An estimated 1.5 million fires occurred in 2008.


Many fires are caused by misuse or poor maintenance of electrical devices, careless use of candles, smoking in bed and kids playing with matches and lighters.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 12 of 12 A Checklist, all areas of your home:

Its a good idea to cover unused electrical outlets.

Arrange electrical cords so that they don't dangle loosely or entagle with one another.

If your home has radiators, the covers should be made of a non-heat absorbent material.

Wood stoves and fireplaces should have screens to prevent sparks from reaching flammable materials.

Chimneys should be cleaned and inspected by a reputable professional every year.

There should be a smoke detector installed on every level of your home, in the hallways leading to the bedrooms. For an extra precaution, you should have them installed in every bedroom or sleeping areas.

Set the thermostat on water heaters between 130 to 135 degrees fahrenheit.

You sould formulate an escape plan for every room in your home, with an alternate plan in case the first escape route is blocked by fire. Be sure to practice these escapes until every member of your family can perfom them in their sleep.

Only use space heaters on non-combustible surfaces and least three feet from the furniture and walls.

Store all flammable and combustible products in a cool, well ventilated area and locked securely out of the reach of kids.

Your basement and garage:

Flammable liquids such as fuels should not be kept in your home.

Keep paints thinners and all other combustible chemicals out of the reach of kids. Ideally, these materials really should be kept in a locked metal cabinet, away from all heat sources.

Keep dirty rags in a metal can and dispose of them, by following the same disposal directions of the products they were used with.

When not in use, lawn mowers and all gas powered equipment should be stored empty.

Keep electrical outlets covered and do not leave anything plugged in, when not in use.

Store gasoline only in approved containers.


Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 12 of 12 A Checklist, your kitchen:

Turn pot handles in while using burners on your stove.

Store cleansers and other chemicals out of the reach of kids, preferably in a locked cabinst.

Make sure that kids are in a safe location when your cooking with hot liquids.

Keep cookies and all sweets away from your stove.

Make sure electrical cords are not hanging over the counters and appliances are unplugged when not in use.

Keep a fire extinguisher near the farthest exit from the stove.

Never use water to douse a flaming pot. Smother with a cove or a baking sheet, or use a fire extinguisher.

Your bedroom:

Keep your bedroom doors closed while sleeping.

The use of candles in a bedroom is the most common fire source of a residential fire.

Be prepared to exit a bedroom in case of a fire. If at all possible, have an alternative route than the bedroom door to exit a bedroom, like the window if required. Have a emergency window ladder in the bedroom, in an accessible location in any bedroom thats on a second or higher floor of your home.

Post 626 - 23 Nov. 2009

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If your not a ActiveRain RainMaker You need to Sign Up Today, I've written a few blog posts about the MT. Kearsarge Indian Museum, in Warner, New Hampshire. The last post that I wrote was September of this year 2009. Just why do I bring this point up. Will you see, I received a thank you note in the mail today, from the Museum.

Link to MT. Kearsarge Indian Museun Website

When I do write a Local blog post about a place to visit here in New Hampshire or in Vermont, I do not contact them. The reason that I do not is because, I don't want them to feel beholden to me for it. So I let them fine the blog post or posts on their own. This thank you not will be going in a frame, and hung on one of my office walls.

If your not a ActiveRain RainMaker You need to Sign Up Today, I've also have had folks contact me, for their Home and Commercial Property Inspections. So here it is members do get contacted from their blogging here in the ActiveRain Real Estate Network community!

So I say don't walk, but run to become a ActiveRain RainMaker Today!

Link to Pow Wow's in New Hampshire For September 2009

Link to part 1 of a 4 part series, you'll find the links to the other 3 on the part 1 blog post.

Fun in New Hampshire, Visiting MT. Kearsarge Indian Museum

Post 625 - 21 Nov. 2009

A Friday Night Rant, as folks know I sure don't usually write rant blog posts. But theres a leads service company calling me that just won't take No for an answer. Service Magic has called me many times now, the last call come today, they e-mail me at least 4 times a week.

But todays phone call I just could no belive what their so called salesmen said to me! they usual sart out by asken if you can use more business. This time I said I'm doing fine with the areas that use on the net, with geting business. So then he said so you have a website, told him yes, and that I belong to some blogging communitys.


And the main blogging community that I use is for Real Estate Professionals, so he goes off and asks, so you selle Real Estate. So I told him, no I do not. Then he comes back with, how can you say your a Real Estate Professional, when your just a Home Inspector. Thats sure was it for them. Do you think I'll ever do business with them? You sure can bet your boots, that I 100% will not.

Did a bit of checken on them, and two complaint sites come up with all kinds of folks talking about the bad service they give. Complaints coming from both the public and business's that have signed up with them. One site had 8 pages and the other one had 12 pages.

Post 624 - 20 Nov. 2009

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, Here a little trick, that professional use. Install a curtain rod above your windows to help make them look taller, or use a extra long curtain rod if you'er wanting a window to look wider.

Folks find swag curtains are among the easiest for them to installed. Tie a large knot at the tip of the rod. Use a sheer fabric to filter the light and let the swag hang all the way down to the fioor for an elegant look for the room.

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, A tab top panel over a fancy roll type shade works well together. You can use any kind of curtain rod for tab top curtains.

A tailored Roman shade is functional as well as smart styling. As with curtains, to help make a window look larger than it really is, install the Roman shade on the outside of the window, overlapping the window on both ends. Its not good to use a Roman shade for windows larger than six feet as the weight of the shade makes it difficult to raise and lower it. Its best to use more than one shade instead.

Bring New Life to the Windows of Your Home, A Roman shade with a coordinating valance for a layered effect. A good rule of thumb for a valance size is one-fourth to one-third the height of the window. You can even trim your valance with fringe or tassels for some added detail.

Post 623 - 20 Nov. 2009

We all need to Help Protect Santa, soon Santa will be arriving at the local malls and stores in your area. Kids look forward to Christmas all year, so we need to be sure to only bring our kids to see Santa if they are in good health. We all need to help protect Santa from coming down with H1N1 Flu.

Can you just imagine, what it must be like to face hundreds or even thousand of kids with sniffling, and sneezing nose's siting on your lap and having them end up rubing their germy selves on you. The only thing at this time Santa will have for protecting himself, is a bottle of hand sanitizer, and hope that parents that have kids that are really sick, will keep their kids at home.


We all need to Help Protect Santa, Santa sure can't deliver toys to all the kids all over the world, if he ended up geting the H1N1 Flu now can he?

If you have ever seen The Year Without A Santa Claus, you sure should be able to say Amen to that!


Some Santas will be haven their elves screen the lines for kids who may be really sick.

You see Santa can not get vaccinated, unless Santa has a condition that puts him at risk to end up with complications from geting the H1N1 Flu, he is haven to wait until after Thanksgiving, to be vaccinated for the H1N1 Flu, just like everyone else has to right now.

Please We all need to Help Protect Santa, and keep him healthy!

Post 622 - 19 Nov. 2009