Powering the Tiki Room - Home Tiki Bars

KD Kava Dan Member Reality, Kalifornia Joined: Apr 18, 2003 Posts: 38	KD Kava Dan Posted posted on Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:47 AM I would just like to mention one thing, DO NOT USE EXTENSION CORDS! We had one short out last August, it was next to a wicker chair that caught fire, long story short, half our house burned down. The fire marshal told me next to kitchen fires, extension cords were the number one cause of home fires. You should ALWAYS use a power strip. With all the wicker, grass etc... we use in decorating Tiki/Poliysian style, our house went up like a torch, it was over 1000 degrees where the fire started within a minute of the fire starting. We lost a lot of treasured items we brought back from our trips to the South Pacific that can never be replaced and it took 9 months to rebuild the house. Thank God my wife works for an insurance company and we had adequate coverage.

I would just like to mention one thing, DO NOT USE EXTENSION CORDS! We had one short out last August, it was next to a wicker chair that caught fire, long story short, half our house burned down. The fire marshal told me next to kitchen fires, extension cords were the number one cause of home fires. You should ALWAYS use a power strip. With all the wicker, grass etc... we use in decorating Tiki/Poliysian style, our house went up like a torch, it was over 1000 degrees where the fire started within a minute of the fire starting. We lost a lot of treasured items we brought back from our trips to the South Pacific that can never be replaced and it took 9 months to rebuild the house. Thank God my wife works for an insurance company and we had adequate coverage.

Post #94382 by Kava Dan on Thu, Jun 3, 2004 10:47 AM