Preventing Garage Fires in Your Phenix City Home

8/24/2021 (Permalink)

In our last blog post, we talked garage fires, which is something we haven't written a blog post about before. We promised our next blog would be sharing tips to help prevent a garage fire in your home.

According to the U.S. Fire Administration, follow these prevention tips to keep homes safe from garage fires.

• Store oil, gasoline, paints, propane and varnishes in a shed away from your home.
• Keep items that can burn on shelves away from appliances.
• Plug only one charging appliance into an outlet.
• Don’t use an extension cord when charging an appliance.
• Install:
• A 20-minute fire-rated door that is self-closing and self-latching from the garage into the house.
• A ceiling made with ?-inch Type X gypsum board (or the equivalent) if you have living space above the garage.
• A wall with ½-inch gypsum board (or the equivalent) if the wall attaches the garage to your home.
• An attic hatch cover if you have attic access from the garage.
• A heat alarm — not a smoke alarm — in your garage. The heat alarm will sound if the temperature rises too high.

SERVPRO of Phenix City, Eufaula and Tuskegee is locally owned and operated, so we’re already close by and ready to respond immediately when you need us. We make disaster "Like it never even happened." Give us a call today at (334)-298-8252!