| e summertime vacation beach cottage that you | | | | luxury retreats – complete with hot water |
| may well find that you are both using the | | | | (often from natural gas or propane hot water |
| combination and combinations of both electrical | | | | tank or tanks). While these appliances are |
| power and natural gas or propane as well , both | | | | feverishly working away to heat your hot water |
| at the same time at your summertime vacation | | | | – whether for standard hot water for |
| retreat or side by side. Avoid injuries to yourself, | | | | dishes or the bath , or more commonly now than |
| your family and your cottage or summertime | | | | before for luxury items such as hot tubs or gas |
| camp recreational guests. Use electrical, natural | | | | barbecues – they may be silently or not |
| gas, propane gas power and heat all together | | | | so silently be spewing out natural gas or propane |
| safely. Avoid injures. Play it safe. | | | | as well . A gas stove is more obvious as a |
| While it is more than true that we all have grown | | | | potential site where a simple electrical spark from |
| and gotten more than used to the benefits and | | | | careless may serve as an ignition source and |
| convenience of electrical power and natural gas , | | | | start. It’s not as obvious with the others |
| we often and rarely take the time to find out if | | | | – be it a gas water tank or barbecue but |
| we are using them safely. | | | | the results are all the same. |
| For example – have you ever used a | | | | What to do? First of all play it safe electrically. |
| metal fork to remove bread or a bun from an | | | | Work best to prevent needless electrical sparks |
| electric toaster? Have you ever turned on the | | | | which could serve as ignition sources for natural |
| garbage disposal (garborator), without fully drying | | | | gas and propane. Next never store flammable as |
| your hands – with a dry towel or the like? | | | | well as potentially flammable materials around |
| It’s famous in the TV shows that people | | | | natural gas or propane furnaces or hot water |
| are too lazy to take the time to safely pull out an | | | | tanks and devices. |
| electrical cord properly by grasping the electrical | | | | Lastly in addition to standard routine inspections |
| power plug and rather take the easy way out | | | | by either the electrical , gas or power utility |
| and simply yank on the cord, some distance from | | | | trained people and personnel one afterthought to |
| the electrical plug itself. | | | | think of are to provide for carbon monoxide |
| By carelessly doing the above you may well have | | | | detectors as well as yearly battery checks and |
| put yourself, your family or guests at menace | | | | replacements. Carbon monoxide poisoning might |
| and in peril if the above were done in the | | | | not be such a consideration in a breezy summer |
| presence of natural gas or propane at the beach | | | | vacation cottage. Still the results of spewed |
| or lake cottage. Both natural gas and more | | | | concentrations of carbon monoxide gas are all the |
| commonly propane may well be a convenience at | | | | same – whether in a more airtight sealed |
| the lake cottage. Beach cottages are now often | | | | city home or at the summer vacation property. |