Heat tape causes fire
The part of Oregon I live in has a lot of people living in rural atmosphere. they have private wells and they use heat tape to keep these wells from freezing up during these cold spells like we are h...
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Georgew48 wrote:90% of the electrical wire in my house is copper electrodes wrapped in paper with a cloth covering. Been like that for about 60 years. So I guess you can call me stupid, I bought the house anyways.bid_time wrote:Sorry, but some things are just stupid. Wrapping anything electrical in newspaper and burlap is just plain dumb. Someone that picks up a gun and looks down the barrel without checking to see if it's loaded is just stupid. There is a difference between stupid and just making a mistake.ronniedean1234 wrote:Why does it have to be "Stupid"? Maybe it was someone that thought they were doing things right or even better but was mistaken. So they made a mistake, does that make them stupid or human? I myself have learned many a lesson by doing it wrong the first time. That doesn't make me "Stupid" that makes better educated - lesson learned. Maybe some people that think they have never made a mistake and can call someone else out; need a reality check.
I was in the plumbing business years ago and in the crawl space on a home was piped wrapped with heat tape, then news paper, last but not least burlap over that held on with string, went there to thaw pipes out and found that a section had already caught fire at some point in time and smothered it self out I guess, definitely a fire waiting to happen......you can't fix stupid I guess...
