Protect your family, pets, home and yourself
with these fireplace and woodstove safety products.
Fireplace Safety Tips
A fire in the fireplace is lovely to look at, but whenever there's fire, there are dangers.
Fortunately, there are easy, practical things you can do to bring the risks to a minimum.
Use glass doors, a fireplace screen or a spark guard
for the safety of your home as well as the people and pets in it.
To keep children and pets at a safe distance
from woodstoves and fireplaces, child fireplace safety guards and gates should be used.
We encourage the use of non-chemical fire starters such as fatwood to maintain a healthy indoor environment.
Do not burn unseasoned wood, painted wood, or paper with color print.
Fireplace safety requires ashes be moved into a lidded ash bucket
instead of directly into the trash. Too many house fires are the result of ashes thought to be spark-free which were actually hiding hot embers.
Use a blowpoke. It adds to fireplace safety by distancing the fire-tender from the flames.
Blowpokes, typically 3 1/2 to 4 feet long, are longer than most fireplace tools. They allow you to oxygenate your fire (as a bellows does) and also
move around light pieces of firewood (as a poker does).
Use fireplace safety gloves
for handling firewood. They protect you from splinters and from burns if you come into contact with the fireplace grate or burning wood. You can
safely use these gloves to position new firewood into the fireplace.
Use a fireplace grate to provide additional fireplace
safety. The grate contains the burning logs so none roll or fall out of the firebox onto the hearth or floor.
Keep flammable mantel decorations and hearth décor at a safe distance
from fireplace flames. As lovely as mantel swags or Christmas stockings may be, remove them before lighting a fire.
Have your chimney inspected and cleaned by a licensed chimney sweep
annually if you use your fireplace regularly. Even if you seldom use it, have it inspected every two years.
Install a combination smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector
near your fireplace or wood stove. Fire of any kind gives off carbon monoxide, a colorless, odorless gas that can be fatal if breathed.
Because you have your chimneys cleaned every year (you do, don't you?), and because your chimneys have good chimney caps installed (don't they?) you have eliminated
most risk of a clogged flue that can flood your home with carbon monoxide. Nevertheless, a detector costing less
than $100 is a must. It also protects you from carbon monoxide generated by an oil burner or gas furnace.
We believe so strongly in the fireplace safety importance of smoke detectors and combination smoke detector/carbon monoxide detector devices that we offer
volume discounts on all of our models to fire departments, Scouts, and other groups that organize fire prevention campaigns.
If you have questions about fireplace safety, just call us at 888 834 7375.
We encourage the use of non-chemical fire starters such as fatwood to maintain a healthy indoor environment.
Use a blowpoke. It adds to fireplace safety by distancing the fire-tender from the flames.
Blowpokes, typically 3 1/2 to 4 feet long, are longer than most fireplace tools. They allow you to oxygenate your fire (as a bellows does) and also
move around light pieces of firewood (as a poker does).
nal fireplace
safety. The grate contains the burning logs so none roll or fall out of the firebox onto the hearth or floor.
