Can A Space Heater Actually Start A Fire?
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I've gotta say, as a fireman, space heaters do cause fires. We just had one here locally from one that tipped over and the tip safety switch didn't shut it off! It was a cheap $20 one from Walmart
Was anyone hurt?
Luckily the owner of the home has a very brave neighbor, the owner was awaken and removed by their neighbor, not all of their pets were as lucky though. The house was a total loss.
Thanks for your duty!❤
I believe it
Steven Gibbons one reason why I don’t leave it on overnight. Only if I’m awake and have direct line of sight to the unit will I use it.
“ I’ll be gone for two hours”...... “alright guys it’s been three days”
Lol even though i gave a reply after like 8 mounths
Well here’s Tyler risking his whole neighborhood for a TH-cam video.
He does that every video if you have not noticed
As per usual lol
Join us next time for: Which fire extinguisher works best
S1n1stersixs Gaming : now that was funny. I’m surprised I got 81 likes on this.
Well I mean the government killed thousands of people for the sake of science. One culdasack is nothing.
29:32 had me in stitches. Tyler: don’t know why I’m taking a temperature, it’s on fire.
I am no expert but i would like to see you do these experiments again and remove the cement blocks and hang the cloths up like a curtain. You didn't allow any air flow between the heater and fabric because the cement is too close.
Yep and the blocks took all the heat
Agreed
100% right I hope he listens to us
Same thing i was thinking
At 20:00 he drapes a curtain over them, without cement blocks...
This video makes me feel stupid that I managed to get pants THAT I WAS WEARING to catch fire from a space heater 💀
No need to feel bad.
Does it happen every time, so thank goodness the news goes on about it? No, it doesn't happen every time. Yes, it does happen from time to time, and usually when we've stepped out for a minute or gone to bed. And that's when we have little chance to unplug the cord, put out the fire with our home extinguisher, etc. People die every year by being the rare unlucky ones, and the main things in common for the small area heaters are too much draw on the cord, contact with nearby objects, water splashing or soaking the heater (can lead to electrocution). The liability to the manufacturer is huge, so they will put every warning on there they think makes sense for people who may have no experience with these things.
@@davidburroughs7068 wtf🤣
Extension cord wires...
Nobody:
Tyler: there's some smoke, thats a good sign!!
Great sign!!!
Your a dweeb for that edit
😂 😂
When you edit the comment to thank people for likes, you lose the right to have top comment
omg stfu
Well that does it I’m no longer wrapping my extensions cords in towels 😂
lmao!
This channel is underrated. It's always fun to see you experiment. I've been subbed since you did the glue thing.
Most flammables and flammable liquids have a combustibility temperature of 572°F to over 1,022°F. As your temperature gun displayed the max temperature you were reaching was just over 250°F which is another 277°F from combusting. Most residential heating units have automatic shutoff switches set to shut off once they reach an internal temperature of 300°F making it impossible(very hard) to catch anything on fire.
The reason company's have such strong warning labels is due to:
1.) The fear of a safety feature failing and catching a home on fire. In our current sue happy community they would loose their ass!
2.) There are certain materials that have a VERY low combustibility temperature, allowing that 250°F to be plenty enough to combust a material.
3.) If you were to get a heating units too close to anything and fabric or dust were to land directly on the heating elements the internal safety switches couldn't catch the hazzard in time due to the material heating at a rate greater then the unit which would allow the material to reach its combustibility temperature before the internal safety reached it's safety shutoff temperature.
If you want to see fire try this test again with commercial heating units commonly used by contractors and workers like space heaters...those things shoot 2ft flames out the port 😂. That's sure to catch something on fire.
The rubber coating melted off and the wires arked.
I’m worried about Tyler. He’s been trying to commit insurance fraud and posting his failures. The companies must be onto him by now
Edit: thanks for the likes lol
Ed The 1owa pyr0 - when did he file an insurance claim to be attempting to commit insurance fraud?
Literally came here to say this! 😂
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In order to be trying to commit insurance fraud you have to file an insurance claim so when did he say he filed a claim? Or are you just assuming stuff
Katie Brooke it is a joke because this could look be played off as the sort of fire that an insurance company would pay for
Yes it can.
I just fought a space heater caused fire last week. Be careful with them
How do you fight a space heater 😂
Dem0nic Fire Gaming a space heater caused fire..
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@@maxwellssilverhammer I play in hell and I like old music 😃
@@panickedhispanic5933 OK boomer 😘
8:45 WOOOSH, THERE GOES TYLER'S BEARD. LMAO
Haha
I worked in repair and I know from experience that a lot of people don't clean their heaters, and just start running them with dust-caked onto the heater. That might have something to do with fires.
You should considering investing in a thermal camera if you’re going to do more of these type of videos. They are really affordable for ones that attach to a smartphone and give you a ton of data points and awesome pictures.
Maybe try reaching out to seek and flir to see if they might be interested in giving you one.
Good idea but make sure you get a thermal camera that's radiometric. Don't get a cheaper one that just shows you thermal. Get one that actually records temperature data in every pixel so you don't get a general relative temperature you actually get legit data.
ironic I find this video the morning after the extension cord my heater was plugged in to caught fire.
What you need to do is put each one in an enclosed container, Like a metal box to see if the heater catches itself on fire. The other thing is: you have the fabric hugging the fire proof brick. No oxygen on the backside of the fabric= no fire....
When my mom was a kid, they had a big dog who loved the little space heaters. Allegedly that dog just sat so close to the space heater it made the thing stop working. That dog blew out like 4 space heaters.
When I was younger and living in New Hampshire it got really cold one night and my mom set up a heater in my room. Being my 4 year old self I proceeded to place my toy rubber lizards on the heating coils repeatedly. Eventually starting a fire, as you would expect.
This video is Tyler trying to catch things of fire for 33 minutes
I love that your using “20s” music lol, it IS the 20s again!
I've seen the UL listed safety standards.. But now I've seen the Tyler tested safety standards! Hell yeah
Tyler:"Alright. Today, we're gonna be breaking rules."
Me: (Presses like button) I'm gonna enjoy this.
A lot of warning labels are there simply to save the manufacturers from being sued if there happens to be an accident involving their product. And drawing too much power from an outlet that is wired to an older circuit breaker can overload the wires, heating them up, and can cause a fire anyways... regardless if it's a space heater or not. The manufacturer doesn't know what kind of outlet you will be plugging the heater into. It should, however, be common sense that ANYTHING with a heating element has the potential to cause a fire.
Also I really enjoy your videos! They are entertaining and pretty informative if not educational. (:
Somebody call Rich Evans. We gotta teach this man to be cool about fire safety!
Tyler: keeps touching the cord he's trying to catch on fire.
My anxiety: it's groovin'
I'm having a lot of panic, and not a lot of disco.
The Vornado space heater is the best. If you tip it over it won’t run if you cover it. It won’t run. It turns off if it gets too hot. The top doesn’t get hot. It runs at two variants of watts to not suck your power dry. As someone who is very picky and worried about fires and safety. It’s the best option I thing. They’re a little pricy but they heat the room to a comfortable temperature so it’s not unbearable or too hot. Especially at night. 10/10 would recommend.
Finally my boy posted something
Tyler, you have to picture it like charcloth. The heaters have to dry out the material for quite some time, then when they are at a stage akin to charcloth they go up. So, it's not really if it's over a few hours or days, sometimes it takes months to finally cook the material enough to go.
Yes they can start a fire it happened to my cousin when he put mine to close to cardboard and started a fire in the garage
Yeah paper would be a much better test than fabric.
31:10 and Tyler would be the guy to have his whole house catch on fire cause of this video 😂
Cause he not listening to the warnings
he is back, and he didnt age one day, unlike the shit he put in jars before he went on vacation.
Nobody:
Tyler: oh its 500 degree
Also tyler: its warm but not hot
Loved the editors note "7 hours of footage"
Modern materials have been made to be fire retardant, which is why the towel did not burn when the extension cord caught fire. Try this with an old curtain or sofa (made before fire regulations affected furniture materials) next to portable gas heater or an old fire bar heater (the kind that only have a series/parallel switch as a means of temperature control) and the results will be a lot different.
Tyler's like, if after all this if it doesn't start I fire.... I'm gonna Lose It!!!
I’ve never missed someone more than I’ve missed Tyler
19:23 what you are forgetting is that the safety devices are to reduce risk but are NOT guaranteed to work, they can and will fail over time. There is a reason why a safety guard might be a laser that shuts off power if something blocks it's sight but a emergency stop is a physical kill switch that removes power from a machine even if the software reading the safety devices freezes and doesn't send the right signal, which even those can fail but it's much less likely then software telling it to stop.
When I was younger my buddy and I had a old house. He was sleeping on the couch when i got home and i smelt something. Went into the front room and the space heater had malfunctioned and caught fire. It was right below our projection screen. I was able to put the fire out and save my friend. Sent the company the heater and they said it was a problem with the heater and offered me another one. I said no I want my money.
This is like a documentary
Pyrolysis can take a very long time. I'm in the heating industry and have many hours of training where house fires are discussed. I have personally seen situations where house fires have taken years or decades to occur due to a violation of clearance to combustibles. Can space heaters start fires? Absolutely. The amount of time it takes for that fire to start can range from minutes to decades depending on materials, original moisture content of the materials, the relative humidity, the amount of heat, etc.
My brother threw a blanket over one... woke up to 5 foot flames licking my feet.. good thing I woke up and was able to put the fire out. Scary shit
you should do space heater fights, put two space heaters against each other and whichever stops working first loses
The orange one will only get so hot. It has a thermostat so the heat shuts off when it gets to a certain temperature and heat turns back on.
A local man lost his wife and 2 kids who were 2 and 4 In a house fire started by a space heater last year. I’m sure he wishes he had your luck with space heaters.
Also may take in consideration of the cinder blocks absorbing the heat.
Yes! Space heaters cause fires all the time... these warnings are not arbitrary, please keep them in mind when using, purchasing, or otherwise dealing with said devices.
I loved the non copyrighted cantina music
I can personally vouch for the extension cord causing a fire. Mine didn't get to that point but after a while of it being plugged in, the port the space heater was plugged into started to spark and lightly smoke. When o unplugged it the port was disfigured and blackened
your last test.... the extention cord in the uk comes on a reel most people leave the wire coiled up so thats how thy catch fire 🔥 in the uk hope this helps u understand how it would catch fire
ones like these I never seen catch fire, but so many unlike these I see a lot of fires.
The cinder blocks are acting like a huge heat sink you really gotta try with them free hanging or up against drywall like in a home
Tyler: (turns heater on)ill be back in an hour or 2 hours
Future tyler:(heater still turned on) alright guys its been nearly 2 days....
28:00 tyler the 'wire sushi' cheff! Next time wires in the fridge is way tastier. I always prefer cold sushi.
You should definitely test a full size diesel torpedo heater, some of them can get up to 500 degrees c on the front vent.
Cool video! I love the real world test, but most cheap extension cords aren't rated for 1625 watts, that would be 14 gauge equivalent. Many indoor use cords that people buy or own are 16 gauge which is barely rated for 10 amps or 1200 watts. I believe these cords would be more hazardous in those conditions.
Beast be ballin
Just a reminder: Don’t try this at home.
*editor reveal!* - poggers!
The thing about the rules is they have to try to cover the worst scenarios. For example, your extension cord or wall outlet could be old and have degraded contacts so it heats up a lot, or your power strip could do fine for the heater alone then someone comes along and doesn't realize they can't plug more into it, or you might have it plugged into an outlet behind furniture then you or someone else shoves the furniture back as far as it'll go and puts a sharp angle in the heater cord, even worse if it is old or was heating up already so the wire is brittle, so it degrades more and more.
Testing a new heater with new cord, outlets, etc is not a consolation to someone who had damage done because their gear wasn't new. I suspect that eventually, heaters will evolve and have a circuit in them, where the power cord has a separate wire back to the AC outlet for unloaded voltage reading to compare to the loaded voltage reading, so at least then it can shut down if the power loss between these two points is excessive. Then again if that feature is not mandatory, customers won't appreciate the importance and still buy based on lowest cost and perceived value from the features they do understand.
Heh, one of my heaters has a Remote Control, that I have never used and played no part in the selection process, but some models now include fewer control buttons on the unit itself because it included the remote control, similar to how TVs used to be except that you are far more likely to adjust your TV rather than a heater set to regulate a target temperature you set and forget.
Hi tyler i got a idea what about the old table lamp we had in the 90 were if u put a sheet clothes or cloth over it it catchers on fire well it melted a sheet that was put over the lamp so it has to be the old lamps cos i bet the lamps we have these days have a safety switch off
29:30 “oh, theres our fire.” *still takes temperature*
It's an honor to be the first comment
crap i thot i was first hhahhaha. gg
Omg you wanna cookie now or later you so totally deserve one.
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Can you test radiator heaters? I have had a few oil filled radiator heaters melt plugs before here in the house and one out in the shop.
Ppl who built the heaters: do not do anything of the things listed
also ppl who built the heater: why do I hear boss music
Tyler: I smell a challenge who has summoned me
If I’m ever stranded with a crappy extension cord, 3 space heaters, a towel, a piece of string and a 115v power source, I’ll be able to start a fire to keep warm until my rescue.
11 views, 37 likes, makes sense...
TH-cam is drunk again 🍺🍷
I tried to heat up a jacket with a neoprene lining on a dish radiant heater like the one you have when I was little, and it caught the jacket on fire, but then again that heater was at least 5 years old already and I did that in like 2004 so the old ones with no safety features will start fires and because of that they have put warnings on newer heaters even though they are much safer to avoid liability lawsuits
They had a radiant heater where I worked. It started on fire. Someone was right there and able to deal with it.
I bet this guys wardrobe is like one in a cartoon just the same 3 t shirts but ten of each
At this point you are also trying to het up the center block as well ! And they can absorb alot of heat !
I have a suggestion for you to try for comparisons. Kerosene heaters and propane heaters they have the kind that are the big ones that you put in the middle of a room and you have the little ones that you can use anywhere from trailers to tents for camping. The way they're supposed to also have the kickoff if they fall over and they're supposed to turn off and not start a fire. It's something that kind of haunts me not whether or not they can start a fire or not because I lost a very special friend that was a little girl because her mother was smoking in bed and fell asleep. But the official report said it was possible that the little propane heater that we gave them to use in the trailer could have been knocked over and started the fire but it was one of those ones that are supposed to kick off they knocked over. They live on our property and we were out of town for the weekend and then came back they had just got done putting out the fire. So I was just wondering if that would be something that you might want to compare receive the kerosene and the propane heaters would actually turn off if they've got tipped over. We actually had to use a kerosene heater ourselves for a few years and when it almost tipped over a couple times because the cats flew into it or bumped into it, the switch popped on and it made it shut off. In that case you had to relight the heater. So I do know that the one kerosene heater that we did have had to be relit if it hey gotten knocked over or pushed and a tilted like it was going to go over. Propane tank heater that we got them though use those little green canisters that we would get for like the camping stoves and it was just the little dome thing that radiated the Heat and then the canister the propane and that was it. Thank you
25:40 What kind of breaker you got homie lmao
That timelapse music really gave me some real fucking Mos Eisley Cantina vibes...
i ran a space heater on a 16 amp 100ft extention cable for 2 years and it was fine the cable failed before the heater did lol it stillworks to this day although i dont use it cause saftey concerns of the slightly melted plug
Tbh I would watch him try this again but with cloth or some type of rug or bed material, and with it hanging or something else besides brick
When I was a kid I started my blanket in fire with flames and everything with my space heater. The blanket was resting up against the grate just like your doing here. I dunno that was 30+ years ago they may be a lot safer now.
The no space heaters for a single outlet or power strip etc is due to the outlet and power strip not rated for the ammount of power that will go through it, making the connection itself hot, not the heater.
I like this video and the TH-camr and all but....... I work with a fire department and space heaters can cause fires, it’s basically just conditional. If you leave a cloth in front of it for too long or it overheats, etc.
I think the reason they make them out to be such fire starters, despite having so much safety features, is because you can't sue them, If the odd case happens, you can't go and say "Your heater is unsafe, I want 1 bajilion drachmas". Common sense is that common actually :D
"this says, 247 degrEES!" *touches 247° object*
You realize as long as you don't keep your hands on it you can go through fire just fine it all about not staying in contact long
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I'm seeing a lot of people commenting lacking electrical knowledge. I'm going to correct some myths. I'm not an electrician, so I can be wrong with some of my understandings, but I've seen a lot worse understandings in the comments.
If your space heater's cord or plug is hot/melting it is because they cheaped out on the wiring for the space heater.
If your outlet is hot, you are overdrawing the voltage for that particular breaker.
The further away from your breaker box the easier it is to overdraw.
Your breaker is supposed to trip when it is overdrawing, but bad electrical work or other factors can prevent this from happening.
“The little heater that couldn’t”
You should remove the cages and put a fabric directly on the heating element to simulate a broken cage or something
Tyler you should have put carpet under the first one because the heat is going down due to it being forced to blow diff with it being so close
There was a recommendation rating thing and I rated it 5 😋.
A lot of things have to align to make a space heater start a fire. I almost had one myself the drop cord was a heavy 12 gauge cord and melted. Almost burned down my greenhouse. Bought a new cord went back to a more expensive ceramic heater like i had. Cheap toaster style heater wasn’t kicking off pulled to many amps.
"There's a fly!?" 😆 love it
How about paper products, dust, and sawdust? In combination with the thin power chord.
The concrete blocks are acting like a Heatsink that is most likely why they did not catch on fire. i bet that they would without the bricks keeping them cool!
My dad's an electrician. I knew all this was bunk before I clicked but good video anyway. People need to see that most stuff is CYA (cover your @$$ liability stuff). Should try to make a closed circuit power outlet and dump water on it and see if it sparks or catches fire like everyone thinks (it won't as long as the outlet is connected to a breaker panel).
Do more things that will blow up! Also u should have pointed all the heaters at the extension cord too!
You should use dry wood underneath the towel and the blanket not the concrete blocks, because they are way to hard to heat up. The blocks are filled with air and concrete is very heat resistance, they will work as a bodyguard for the towel and blanket.
Dude what’s next tnt in a jar on a stove lol we all know one day you will upload so here’s how my garage burned down, cannot wait keep up the great vids
Ok so to be clear, DO NOT take the safety precautions for granted. Yes the heaters themselves IN THIS VIDEO did not cause a fire on their own. BUT that does not mean that someone else’s safety sensor could fail and cause it to actually overheat and start a fire. It’s the same concept of a safety on a rifle. It’s a mechanical device that can fail. A safety on a rifle should never be treated any differently if the safety is on or off, same with these space heaters. The sensors can fail because they are a mechanical device. Saying it is impossible to start a fire with those space heaters is dangerous and it’s a wreck less thing to say. In a perfect world like the set up you had yes this concept works. But in the real world as the heaters are used over and over and they start to deteriorate machines start to fail.
I have seen a really old space heater that was probably full of lint and pet hair basically jet engine. Shot flames probably close to 3 ft out the front right onto my legs lol.
His power bill🆙
How the heck do you always know what I want to see before I even know I want to see it?