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Spending night in hotel, house freezing up. | by toxin | 2009-02-03 15:14:35 |
| At least there's a house to fix. |
by werehatrack |
2009-02-03 19:08:07 |
We had a kerosene heater in the floor in one of the houses where we lived when I was a kid. It had always been cranky, and around 1972 it got to the point where we were having continual problems both with lighting it and controlling it. Many attempts to get it functioning as intended had merely made it different, not right. One chilly afternoon, I got detailed to try to relight it for the night, and I got it to catch...but suspected that something was not right. I went outside and looked in through the crawl space opening in the back wall...and there was flaming kerosene dripping from the bottom of the chamber onto the ground. I turned off the supply valve (which was on the tank right nest to that opening), grabbed the water hose (also right there) and started spraying like crazy at the heater; I figured that cooling it was the best way to get the kero down below it's surface flash point so that any drips would be a non-hazard. It worked, and we *didn't* have a house fire, but it was a trifle on the chilly side indoors that evening.
But at least there was an indoors to be chilly. |
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