Every month is Home Safety Month at our house. Living with a fire fighter for 30-years has made me aware of all the in-home hazards that can cause fire or injury. I’m thrilled to be able to offer a prize pack of home safety products provided by The Lehigh Group and First Alert. This prize pack will keep you and your family safe, both inside the home and out.
This prize package includes the following:
- Tundra® Fire Extinguishing Spray™: We have several of these in our home. They’re a powerful but compact and are effective on common household fires including fabric, wood, cooking oil and electrical fires.
- Cordzilla® by Secureline from The Lehigh Group: We’ve not tried this specific brand, but it is really important that you secure gear on your roof racks or truck beds. There have been several horrible accidents here in the Seattle-area by unsecured loads. This particular brand is available in a variety of lengths and are a bungee-style tie down which feature vinyl coated steel hooks with security clips. They can secure loads up to 400 pounds.
- Drinking Water Test Kit: I’d love to have one of these! Who wouldn’t want to know if there is hidden harmful bacteria and chemicals in your water? First Alert’s Drinking Water Test Kit is a do-it-yourself kit tests to Environmental Protection Agency standards for toxins such as lead, pesticides, chlorine and more.
- Mold Test Kit: Mold has been in the forefront of the news for years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that six varieties of mold are common and three can produce toxins harmful to humans. This Mold Test Kit from First Alert allows you to safely and accurately test for and identify the various types of mold that may be colonizing in your home. Once you know it’s there, and what kind it is, you can take steps to rid it from your home.
- Radon Test Kit – Radon is an invisible, odorless and poisonous gas that causes tens of thousands of deaths each year. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the US (number one among non-smokers). It’s responsible for approximately 20,000 lung cancer deaths each year. The First Alert Radon Gas Test Kit comes with all the materials needed to test your home’s radon levels.
- Lead Test Kit: According to the CDC, children under the age of six years old are at an elevated risk for lead poisoning because they are growing so rapidly and often put their hands or other objects, which may be contaminated with lead dust, into their mouths. Find out if your home has lead with First Alert’s easy-to-use Lead Test Kit.
I’ve not had any personal experience with any of the products with the exception of the Tundra Fire Extinguisher (luckily, I’ve never had to use mine so technically I guess I’ve never really used it). However, this was such a fabulous prize pack to pass on that I agreed to host a giveaway. Make every month home safety month at your house, too!
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My tip is to make sure you put all of your meds away safely in a medicine cabinet away from those little curious hands.
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Lock up your cabinets if you have kids.
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During the summer, make sure all your window screens are tightly fastened.
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Make sure to test your smoke detectors and change the batteries when needed. We change them twice a year. On the day that you spring ahead and the day that you fall back.
I always check things before I go to bed. I lock all doors, unplug unnecessary things and just check around to make sure theres nothing suspicious.
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I am constantly doing checks on plugged in appliances, such as the iron, because I have a large family and sometimes someone will forget to unplug something.
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My best home safety tip is check all electric cords periodically for damage to help prevent a fire or electric shock.
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If you have small kids, use a slide lock at the top of your door to keep them from unlocking the doorknob and exiting.
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Be a “checker” all through the day, when you go out, and before bed. I check anything that could be a problem. Besides that you really need smoke detectors.
Keep chemicals out of reach of children.
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My best safety tip is to ALWAYS have a fire extinguisher in your house. I had a grease fire in my kitchen but I was able to save everything because I quickly grabbed my fire extinguisher. Sure, the wall was burnt but no one got hurt!
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i cut all my blind cords really short so kids cannot get tangled in them
Unplug all appliances when they are not being used.
We keep a container of salt by the stove in case of grease fire
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Keep cleaners, medications and beauty products in a place where kids can’t reach them. Use child safety locks.
Use a towel or old t-shirt when changing out bulbs in case they break.
Pay attention to the Wattage on light bulbs when replacing them. Every fixture has it listed as to watt size telling you which bulb to use. Using a bulb that has too large a wattage can be a problem in many ways; it can overload the circuit, the bulb could pop, or cause the fixture to overheat.
Keep your clutter to a minimum.
Have an emergency plan and practice it!
I’m an agoraphogic and everything that I can possibly do to keep my home safe, is a necessity. I have motion activated lighting and guard dogs.
Use less electronics. Less you have plugged in. The less chance they could start fires
Keep talking to the kids about what to do in an emergency! Even though I thought my kids knew to get immediately out of the house if the alarms went off and where we met, my oldest son said last time that first he should get the phone can call 911 before he got out of the house. So never assume the kids remember what to do!
Lots of great tips in this thread that I had never thought of before. I really don’t have anything to add that hasn’t already been said. I do always double check my stove before I leave the house to make sure I have turned all the burners off. This kit is a must-have for every home. Thank you for the chance to win.
Our gas company will come out for free to check everything for safety I take advantage of it each year!
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My best tip is check your smoke alarms/carbon monoxide detectors/fire extinguishers on a regular schedule.
We have “fire drills” twice a year (spring and fall, when we change the clocks) to confirm safety plans for each room in the house. We also change our alarm batteries then.
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If you’re going on vacation for longer than 3 days then unplug everything but the fridge.
These would be great tests to check up on my home.
We have an alarm and keep extinguishers throughout the house.
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I keep afire extiguisher and have fire alarms
we keep a fire extinguisher on every level and have smoke alarms on every level.
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Crawl all over the floor to see what young children or babies can get into. Remove anything that can be pulled down onto them or otherwise hurt them.
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I keep afire extiguisher and have fire alarms
Don’t overload outlets. It’s cheaper to have more installed than to replace your house.
I have been meaning to buy a fire extinguisher, but keep forgetting how important they are.
Learn how to use a fire extinguisher. It may seem simple but can be tricky.
Keep unused and unnecessary electrical items/appliances unplugged.
Make sure you always blow all candles out when you leave!
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declutter and have a escape plan and use it- practice it