Hahahaha omg, that was so unexpectedly hilarious, his reactions were great. "So you can just throw straight up gas on this thing!?" Like he's dissapointed, lol. Oh Tyler 🤣
The unit heats up fast and is super quiet. It looks fancy ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxl8Od2BvnGbn1ffwqsuFXW0QnmcZgMiVY and can be kept in the living room. It gets hot within a split second of turning on the unit. The build quality is exceptionally good and is safe to be around kids and pets. This one is super quiet and can be kept on while in office meetings, my wife loved it. It shows the temperature right on the unit which is very useful and adding a rotating feature helps to heat up the surrounding, so other people will not fight with you for heat. It is right as described in the description..!! Definitely recommend!!
Just a quick note, since gas and water don't mix, pouring water on a gas fire will usually just spread it. Luckily, you weren't using a lot of gas, so the gas burned off pretty quickly. Next time, to be safer, use a chemical fire extinguisher used for gas and/or oil fires
I'm actually disappointed at his lack of safety in this video. He seems to live in a fairly tight neighborhood. Not only is he risking his own home with these tests, but the belongings of others as well. He never mentioned having a fire extinguisher on standby, never wore a respirator with all of that plastic smoke, etc. He says it was done in a safe environment, but I really don't trust any of this. Sure, some of the video tests are harmless where the worst thing that could happen is Tyler gets cut. But this was a different story...
Speaking with experience as a firefighter, yes absolutely. If you’re getting a space heater it is extremely important to get one that shuts off when it is tilted or falls over.
I sorta wish he would have had a "cheap" electric heater in the mix such as a radiant heat one. These ceramic heaters start to resist electricity more as the element starts to get too hot, which reduces power, which makes them naturally a lot safer. Not 100% safe, but far safer than older styles.
That’s because they are small fires. You can get away with using water on gas fires if it is small. The amount of gasoline he used was less than the amount of water
@@floyd2386 South Carolina for ya. Maybe Tennessee, but I'd put money on SC. I've never met the guy, I'm just from GA and recognize the accent and the landscape from the backyard lol.
@@Joeperryftw He lives in Texas. He’s said so in previous videos and was also posting last winter about how he had no electricity/internet back when that huge snowstorm hit the Austin area.
To be fair, these heaters are all new. Most myths of "heaters cause fires" are made way back when heaters were crappy. I had an old "Braun" space heater (the type where you could see red hot wires from just looking at it). That one sucked in air on the top and blew it out the front. That one still got scars of flames on it because someone accidentally threw a wooly blanked off a couch and covered the entire thing in it.
I know! Like mom was born in the 50s and she keeps on at me about the electric heater I keep on my nightstand. It has all the basic safety features and will cut off if tipped or overheated.
OMG! - When you were like, "Okay I'm going to leave this stuff on these heaters in my garage and leave for a while, see ya" I was like wait, no don't go. I knew you were right there but still I was so nervous the entire time. You are totally crazy in that totally awesome kind of way.
Good on Dreo for sponsoring another one of these videos to help prove the safety of the space heater industry. If I didn't already have one I'd have gotten one from them. For anybody who doesn't have one I definitely recommend it. It's a great thing to have in the winter.
The thing I see with electric heaters as far as a fire hazard is electrical issues, not the heaters themselves. Usually from plugging them into bad receptacles, water intrusion, extension cords not rated for the amperage, or power strips.
@@MrLukeMedia not really, there are very few appliances or devices that suck up 1500w continuously like a space heater does. The issue is especially apparent in older houses where the wire gauge isn't adequate. You run 1500w through a small gauge cable it generates alot of heat, potentially enough to melt the insulation inside your walls and combust dry materials.
@@DeagleGamesTV computers easily can, my pc runs a 1500w power supply and since my house is old its plugged into (first a very save surge protector) a 2 prong outlet note that i shut it off each night after im done using it but some people i know keep theirs on 24/7 wich is jus dum more for security reasons but that's a different thing
@@weedjesus5587 lol your computer has a 1500w power supply and it has NEVER reached that 1500w. 1500w is huge overkill for a gaming PC even with the best graphics card and 128gb of ram and the best CPU available currently. Your computer also is smart enough to not pull wattage it doesn't need. So when you are not using 100% of the computer it uses less wattage, if you're just browsing youtube it is probably using ~150w. Not even close to a space heater.
As an electrician, I would estimate that 1/3-1/2 of winter service calls we get are because of space heaters burning up receptacles, and wires. I would never use one in my house on a 15a circuit. Maybe a 20a
Yes. The answer is yes. I've seen it happen. I've seen fully electric space heaters sold at Lowes back around 2018 have the fan motor seize up and catch on fire. Flames were coming out of the front of it. Literally unplugged it and threw it out the front door into the snow.
Usually if they have a faulty sensor, or they are old and weren't designed with one, or they are being run the wrong way, or they were designed very poorly and were cheaply made.
Imagine forgetting the heater would kick on and having a polyester blanket on it .... I had a gas heater in the middle of my apartment. It would kick on with the thermostat but like most people horizontal surfaces are hard to come by. The blanket melted into the heater by the time I woke up. I was scraping plastic out of the vents for weeks. Eventually I had just turn it on with the windows open to air out the smoke.
I think in a real world scenario, you would toss a towel down in front of a heater. Or Toss down something. I have a hunch that propane heater would catch a bundled up fabric on fire. Another reason to test it again!
@@theaverageredneck8426 I just checked to confirm, he only did a single layer of fabric like he did in this one. Checked the other heater vids from a year ago. Still the same single layer.
In Alaska, we had a bad wind storm a couple weeks ago in the Matanuska-Susitna (or “Mat-Su”) region that knocked out power to more than 20,000 homes. Stuff like heater/generator/wood stove safety were ESSENTIAL to survival and for keeping pipes from freezing while the hot water heaters were offline. Our house was one of them, and HO BOY it was an EXPERIENCE keeping warm and figuring out when, where and how to use the propane heaters and the generator/electric heaters. Thankfully we made it out alright with no frozen water pipes 👍
@@OgdenM It was 2 and a half days without power, and thankfully the house doesn’t have a basement. The concrete foundation acted as an insulator, and kept the pipes underneath from getting too cold. However, the hot water heater was in the garage, which was very drafty so it quickly got cold. What we did was we kept an eye on the temperature on the garage floor with a digital thermometer, and when it got close to 32 degrees F we would run a propane grill for about 20 minutes or so next to the hot water heater, then let the fumes dissipate over an hour or so, to prevent the fumes from building up. That kept the water from freezing over by the garage. The wood stove in the main house kept the bathroom and kitchen pipes from freezing, thank goodness. It was still around 50 to 60 degrees F when the wood stove was burning as hot as it could, so blankets were necessary to be comfy in the dark. Another family member with a spare generator stopped by and gave us the generator so we could run the space heaters inside along with the wood stove, but we had to run the generator outside because of the generator exhaust. Of course the wind was howling and blowing like crazy, so the generator would cut out periodically despite our best efforts to keep it going, but it was useful when it worked. Thankfully we made it out alright, we also had a 2004 4WD Chevy Suburban we could use to run to gas stations and grocery stores that somehow stayed open through all that mess, so if we needed water or food we could just buy it. Some of us had some time to breathe so we went to Red Robin for a hot meal and a warm place to be for a couple hours, AND THE POWER CUT OUT MID-MEAL. It came back on a couple minutes later THANK GOODNESS (I nearly had a heart-attack, I only had a debit card to pay for the food and no cash so if the power didn’t come back on…).
I'm in New York right now and after the recent horrible fire in the Bronx I can't stop thinking... These videos are actually helpful. Not only showing the safety features in heaters but also just showing obvious do's and don'ts. Keep up the great work Tyler 👍
My grandparents house caught on fire because of an old electrical space heater. It was the kind that looks like an old fashioned radiator on wheels. Funny enough, we kept using those heaters around the house even after the fire 😂
Its nice of you to go back over things just because we complain, thank you. That Dreo heater looks really good. I think with all the heaters we are mostly going off things when we were kids. More people had these types of heaters and they were not safe at all, especially with kids around. So once again thank you
They still make the older styles of electrics, but they are generally marketed as "garage heaters". the biggest risk with a modern ceramic element heater isn't the heater itself, its people using too thin of extension cords.
@@woodsiewood8310 Bullshit, if that was true, then smokers wouldn't still get emphysema when they quit. The healed scar tissue doesn't function like healthy tissue. That doesn't ever come back. A smoker will never "go back to a healthy persons lungs".
Hey man, I really appreciate your videos and the work you're willing to put in to test your products. I just be careful about burning those synthetic materials. When they burn and melt they release a lot of really nasty gases high in carcinogens. If I can make a recommendation if you're going to be bringing that stuff I do it outside in a more ventilated area. Take care and keep up the good work.
Carcinogens. Let's take that stuff back to California, where even apples are labelled as cancerous. 😛 Today, materials are made to not cause cancer, even when burned. Especially not in the portions he was testing with.
an apartment i was living in while in Japan had a massive fire because someone left clothes above their floor heater to dry them (while they went to work!) and they caught on fire. the first and second floors were completely destroyed by the fire. I was living on the 3rd, and thankfully did not receive much damage.
My girlfriend's best friend and her two kids died in a house fire 2 years ago from a space heater fire, so yes, they can start a fire. I do appreciate you showing which ones are safe, though. Keep up the good work!
We had a house fire in 2018 from a electric heater. A blanket fell near it and it started to smoke it up but I didn't see a fire. I threw it outside and I was late for a doctor appointment so I went back in to get dressed and apparently the wind was so bad it blew the blanket under the house and started a fire. Back then I regretted losing the place I was at. I had to throw my disabled mom out a window and I was burned on 30% of my body. I felt like God hated me, but after I moved away I found life is better where I'm at now and I'm thankful things happen the way they did. Don't underestimate your heater folks.
Just so you know lightweight blue tarps will catch fire by means of an electric space heater and if you throw in a highly flammable material that puts off fumes that are explosive it’s a for sure thing! I lost a brother in an accident on a job site and this is what happened to him . Now there were some things that all added up to a bad situation but with a synergistic (1+1=3) type of situation. His accident was the tarp had gotten loose and ended up in a heater sat there and smoldered until igniting some fumes and so on… no test needed if something ends up in a heater but tipping a different story… thanks for your information and willingness to air it publicly for all to glean their own conclusions. God Bless
Tyler you are the uncle I never had. One day in 2020 i just stubbled upon your channel and i never stopped watching. I watch your videos everytime I need to be comforted and sleep. Thank you.
The impact a little video can make! I love your content. Been feeling extra crappy today. But this can help me escape even for just 20/30 mins. Cheers 😊
I was curious on when I started to watching you so I went back and was checking, I’ve watched Tyler for 3 years and I only missed a few videos. Couldn’t even tell that it’s been 3 years. Keep up the amazing content.
As a former fry cook, my clothes would get covered in cooking oil splatter. Try clothes splattered with cooking oil or motor oil for our mechanic friends. Since you’re outside, try putting a can of hairspray next to it as someone may do.
They have plenty of murderers who tried to dispose of bodies in burn barrels, fires, etc, etc. The temp doesn't get hot enough to turn all bone into ash. It's called looking at evidence of others trying to do the same thing and failing without an incinerator.
My house burned down when I was 17. Fire investigator said the cause of the fire was a space heater my mom hooked up on an extension cord that was to small. He told us space heater fires are actually caused by the electrical and being improperly connected to the wrong extension cords. People want them closer to their beds at night and a lot of old homes have bad wiring to boot.
Great video. I would love to see a video with you connecting space heaters to cheap extension cords and/or power strips like SO many people do. It would be awesome to see how likely it is to start a fire.
I haven't watched it yet, but having a background in repairing fire damaged houses, yes. Space heaters are incredibly dangerous. I've been on the scene of multiple deadly house fires caused by space heaters. Also heated blankets.
Absolutely it happened to me thanksgiving night 2021. Oil filled electric radiator heater leaked its oil out and then when dry set the leaked oil on fire. $100,000 in damage and loss.
I mean yeah, but also technically no. It was caused by inadequate wiring in conjuction with space heaters drawing way to much power and causing the power lines in the wall to combust.
I work at a foam fabricator and as interesting as your video is when you burned the memory foam and the gel foam which I work with both you were putting yourself in an extremely dangerous situation it should have been done outside the fumes from that stuff can kill you within 12 to 15 seconds it's made of polyethylene. I appreciate your videos you do good work I just want you to be safe. Other than that very nice video.
The only time I've seen a space heater set something on fire was when something blew in the electrics of an electric radiator and that burst into flames lol. Also I'm pretty sure water isn't great for putting out a petrol fire xD
I worked at a bar that had those white heaters. I bet you can imagine that every time a drunk college kid wanted to move the heater closer they would tell me they did nothing and it stopped heating.
Another reason to test again, Dreo appears to make a very safe electric heater, which sets to a temperature.... I lit a blanket on fire cuddling with someone for warmth... There was an electric heater next to the bed, and neither of us realized that a corner of the down-filled blanket was too close until we awoke to the wonderful smell of smoke, and found a small fire on the blanket. We put it out alright, by the way. Blanket took a few stitches and it was good. Lessons learned, all is well.
I would recommend you wear some kind of mask for experiments like this in the future, Tyler. It would suck if you got cancer or something from these fumes. Especially since I love your channel and content.
It doesn't matter in this case. I'm convinced he has divine protection and is basically immortal at this rate. Based on what he posts he should have died several videos ago and many times. I can only imagine off camera.
@@fallouthirteen I hear ya for the garage I've always thought the same but maybe its so he doesn't Doxx himself? idk he could also do those test outside at the very least
The major risk of a space heater isn’t just one single layer of material, it is multiple layers, and or THICK layers!! Love your videos btw Tyler. Keep it up :)
In older houses in my town there were space heaters fed by the actual gas line and had to be turned on with a match. Those would definitely start a fire.
Great vid!! Day 14 of asking Tyler to start a series similar to wish Wednesday where he goes to Dollar Tree and tests all of their off brands compared to the actual brands (tapes, glues, locks, charging cables, ect.) You could call it frugal fridays!
Your electric space heaters are pretty safe, especially the newer ones. One of the bigger issues is extension cords. You should not hook a space heater up using an extension cord, especially those smaller and cheaper extension cords. Also foam when off gassing typically puts off a gas called hydrogen cyanide…. Just for future reference my friend. And when I mean off gassing I’m talking about the smoke which is just unburned fuel……. So…. Yeah.
need to see some not so good quality space heaters from back in the day hahah some of the old ones have to be fire hazards and people still use them everywhere today
My apartment almost caught on fire once when my electric heater burnt a hole into my smart plug. The smart plug started making sizzling sounds. It was pretty scary. Even though an electric heater won’t cause fire in the heater part, make sure you don’t plug it into anything but the outlet (not smart plug, power strip, etc) otherwise the other end will cause fire.
You can plug heaters into both power strips and smart outlits. I have my oil-radiating heater plugged into a smart outlet which is plugged into power strip. The key is getting both that are RATED for high enough wattage. Most Smart outlets are NOT rated high enough. You specifically have to look for one that is made for 1500 volts (which is a max of a electric heater) But, even in your setup, you probably wouldn't have started a fire. A fire is all about combustible material. So, unless you had stuff sitting on top of the outlet you'll probably just get sparks and plastic melting w/ some smoke until the outlet just fails. It's gonna be smelly but probably won't start a fire.
@@OgdenMthink you mean watts dawg. Which doesn’t give me a ton of confidence in the rest of the comment no offense. But yeah you probably should be able to plug a heater or anything else pulling 1500 watts into proper power strips
Tyler, add multiple layers to everything! Like if it fell on a pile of clothes or towels, that way the material can trap the heat and possibly catch fire! The heats going right through the single layers!
Speaking from experience, a space heater can Definitely burn a house down... I lost my home to one burning up while me,my wife and our youngest kid were inside along with 3 of our dogs.
for what its worth (probably nothing coming from a stranger online) i do believe your account of that terrifying fire happening to you HOWEVER i also have many years of using space heaters inside which theyre designed to do and im saying there is zero danger if you arent using a junk heater or having home wiring problems.
@@tubevideoguy762 Would you know if you were having wiring problems before they caused a fire? Not necessarily. A motel in my town burned down when the cleaners left on a bathroom fan. They didn't know they had a problem before they had a fire in the wall. It is wise to never assume a zero danger, and always stay alert and cautious.
Test oil filled heaters next time!!! Majority of the house fires you hear about involve those and I think it’s either multiple heat cycles of the oil and over time you lower it’s boiling/flash point. Another theory is that oil leaks out, the temperature probe is at the top and doesn’t read properly, so it over heats and ignites the oil inside.
Video idea: Curious how different aerosols affect the space heaters. For example, people may spray Febreeze or other air fresheners in their home, and they could have space heaters going at the same time. Will it cause a fireball, or do nothing, or shut itself off?
Dreo wanted you to test their product to prove it was safe, and you proved it was, i'm honestly shocked at how well that PTC heater did given the literal torture test it was put through, seems like a really solid product and a testament to how safe a heater can be when properly designed and outfitted, i'm also surprised that the kerosene space heater didn't do more damage to the fabric in the tests, cool and surprising results
When you get sponsored products like that electric heater, you gotta pair them up with other similar products to actually test them. Cause we have no idea how it actually compares
I suffer from psoriasis and the cream I use says not to get onto clothing because even when it’s dry it can still catch fire easily, I’d love to see if any of these creams do make clothes more flammable The cream is called Zero Doublebase
That goes well with all the things the airlines tell you not to have on you in case of a cabin fire. Two I remember are polyester clothes and hair spray.
The Mr Buddy heaters are great when you lose power. When we had our last bkackout, I just cracked the basement door going outside, and fired up my "big buddy" heater. Kept us, and my pipes, nice and warm. Also, it can cook bratwurst on the metal grate lol. For safety, bring it outside first though.
A good addition to this video would be when a smokedetector would sound the alarm, even with the non visible things burning. I would like to see you test different extinguisers on different fires.
@@SOSolacex I get that but I think thats only when the top is covered. The heat cant escape from the top so it gets directed to the sides. But if only the sides are covered then nothing happens. If the whole thing gets covered with no way to let out the heat, then the heater will likely go out from lack of oxygen.
@@saraashkir5793 it won't go out, he tried it before. But the fact that the heat has no proper way to escape is precisely why I want him to cover the entire thing; it makes it get hotter.
Grateful they've made things less likely to start fires. The tip over sensors were very intelligent. Then the materials they are using for bedding and clothing is often made to withstand a decent amount of heat. In fact, some bedding and PJs (mostly for children) are coating against fire. They are at least trying to make things safer and that's fantastic. Of course, some things fail but hopefully they'll get them all nailed at some point.
I responded to an apartment fire one. The occupant of the room (a 3 year old) "put a blanket on the heater, you it wouldn't get cold". It burned the whole room and extended into the attic. The heater was similar to the taller white heater. I wish I could tell you more about the heater. I think the blanket was polyester Fortunately no one was hurt. As for doing that in your garage. Not a great idea. Just think of all the toxic fumes coming out of those materials. I could give you a list, but it is pretty extensive, and most are pretty nasty. Not to mention, if they caught fire, you might not have put the fire out before some really nasty damage happened. I will add that most blankets and pillows are now required to be made from flame resistant materials. I also suggest, redoing the test with the heater completely covered by a blanket, to contain the heat. Thanks for the video.
I love your videos. But I wana say one thing, yes the electric heater turned off. But I’m the past 2 weeks I have been to 2 house fires caused but electric heaters. So yes there safer but there is still flaws. So be careful when you use and heaters.
i love the shirt! as for the test with the kerosene heater, you need to test that with the materials on the other side of the cage. that is the worry about those, if stuff gets past the cage. growing up in the 80's, we had one of those heaters my mom would run to knock the chill off while us kids were getting ready in the mornings, and we would put our clothes in top of the cage to warm them up before putting them on. this video brought back that memory! but i would give that a try and see if anything ignites. the pillow did that test dripping on it, and not ignite. just need to try the other materials. just a suggestion!
Tyler, I would love to see you test out drill pumps and abuse the hell out of them. Make them pump way too high with long hoses, pump flammable liquid because they never recommend a user do so. Safety second, Hero Tyler
Dreo space heater - amzn.to/3t3eTHc
live on twitch right now! www.twitch.tv/tyler_tube
Me: Honey The crazy scientist is back at it again!!!!
Wife: What did he do this time🙄
Good work on this one!
Also you and Donut Operator sound like brothers and I can't unhear it!
Using a sponsored product in a comparison may lead to a conflict of interest in the future.
I want to Diesel in the kerosene please!!!
What if you ball of the fabric in front of the heater an see if it catches for some reason
I love how when you're outside your talking quiet to avoid disturbing the neighbors then immediately blow up the backyard 🤣
I have no idea how the fire department didn't get called on him 🤣
Hahahaha omg, that was so unexpectedly hilarious, his reactions were great. "So you can just throw straight up gas on this thing!?" Like he's dissapointed, lol. Oh Tyler 🤣
😂😂😂
Better than my poor neighbors have it😂 there’s a lot of drunk nights of me starting the race car up or riding wheelies on the quad
@@southernracing2468 drunk driving? :( be careful
This dude walks away from something that could possibly turn into a large fire in his garage, with no smoke alarms… for 20 minutes. Love it😂👍🏼
What good would a smoke alarm do.. he was already aware of the smoke so it would just be an annoyance
That's a hell of a way to get a sponsorship with a space heater company.
Dude is being bought it’s only going to get worse
I like how Tyler's life mission is now to set stuff of fire with space heaters
And I love the way you worded that shit 😂
@@derpydog9469 ok
Can you imagine looking out your window and seeing your neighbor dump gasoline on a kerosene heater 😂
Followed by dumping Water on a Gasoline fire.
We can almost hear his neighbors
"Marge, he is at it again..."
"Ted, I am worried about that boy!"
My neighbor? Yep.
Hahaha
The unit heats up fast and is super quiet. It looks fancy ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxl8Od2BvnGbn1ffwqsuFXW0QnmcZgMiVY and can be kept in the living room. It gets hot within a split second of turning on the unit. The build quality is exceptionally good and is safe to be around kids and pets. This one is super quiet and can be kept on while in office meetings, my wife loved it. It shows the temperature right on the unit which is very useful and adding a rotating feature helps to heat up the surrounding, so other people will not fight with you for heat. It is right as described in the description..!! Definitely recommend!!
I think it would be interesting to see if you could cook food with a space heater 🤔
Hell yeah put a hot pocket on top of the kerosene one 🤣
@@cnukem My family cooked on a kerosene heater in the Blizzard of '93.
I've toasted bread on em before
You can buy a rack for the buddy heater to cook on. Ice fishermen do it all the time
@@warmitupchristopher you turn the front grate around and hook it in horizontally.
Just a quick note, since gas and water don't mix, pouring water on a gas fire will usually just spread it.
Luckily, you weren't using a lot of gas, so the gas burned off pretty quickly.
Next time, to be safer, use a chemical fire extinguisher used for gas and/or oil fires
Yes, thank you for pointing this out!!!
I'd suggest not throwing gasoline on a space heater next time lol.
Bucket of sand will work too!
I'm actually disappointed at his lack of safety in this video. He seems to live in a fairly tight neighborhood. Not only is he risking his own home with these tests, but the belongings of others as well. He never mentioned having a fire extinguisher on standby, never wore a respirator with all of that plastic smoke, etc.
He says it was done in a safe environment, but I really don't trust any of this. Sure, some of the video tests are harmless where the worst thing that could happen is Tyler gets cut. But this was a different story...
flour.
Speaking with experience as a firefighter, yes absolutely. If you’re getting a space heater it is extremely important to get one that shuts off when it is tilted or falls over.
I sorta wish he would have had a "cheap" electric heater in the mix such as a radiant heat one. These ceramic heaters start to resist electricity more as the element starts to get too hot, which reduces power, which makes them naturally a lot safer. Not 100% safe, but far safer than older styles.
Is that not mandatory, hopefully it’s just old grandfathered in heaters
Love how he tries to put out a gas fire with water. The two do not mix.
Thankfully the electric one didn't catch a fire
That’s because they are small fires. You can get away with using water on gas fires if it is small. The amount of gasoline he used was less than the amount of water
He threw gasoline on space heaters. At that point nothing surprises me with this guy.
@@floyd2386 South Carolina for ya. Maybe Tennessee, but I'd put money on SC.
I've never met the guy, I'm just from GA and recognize the accent and the landscape from the backyard lol.
@@Joeperryftw He lives in Texas. He’s said so in previous videos and was also posting last winter about how he had no electricity/internet back when that huge snowstorm hit the Austin area.
To be fair, these heaters are all new. Most myths of "heaters cause fires" are made way back when heaters were crappy.
I had an old "Braun" space heater (the type where you could see red hot wires from just looking at it). That one sucked in air on the top and blew it out the front. That one still got scars of flames on it because someone accidentally threw a wooly blanked off a couch and covered the entire thing in it.
I have a new heater and it has the red hot wires
I know! Like mom was born in the 50s and she keeps on at me about the electric heater I keep on my nightstand. It has all the basic safety features and will cut off if tipped or overheated.
Also they pull so much power and people plug them into ridiculous power strips with lots of other things and it causes an electrical fire
@@AtomSquirrel Why would you even use a space heater, isnt central heating a thing ??
@@BeatstormX tell me you eat with a silver spoon without telling me you eat with a silver spoon
OMG! - When you were like, "Okay I'm going to leave this stuff on these heaters in my garage and leave for a while, see ya" I was like wait, no don't go. I knew you were right there but still I was so nervous the entire time. You are totally crazy in that totally awesome kind of way.
Good on Dreo for sponsoring another one of these videos to help prove the safety of the space heater industry. If I didn't already have one I'd have gotten one from them. For anybody who doesn't have one I definitely recommend it. It's a great thing to have in the winter.
The thing I see with electric heaters as far as a fire hazard is electrical issues, not the heaters themselves. Usually from plugging them into bad receptacles, water intrusion, extension cords not rated for the amperage, or power strips.
But that wouldn't be a heater specific fire hazard, that could go for any other electrical appliance
@@MrLukeMedia not really, there are very few appliances or devices that suck up 1500w continuously like a space heater does. The issue is especially apparent in older houses where the wire gauge isn't adequate. You run 1500w through a small gauge cable it generates alot of heat, potentially enough to melt the insulation inside your walls and combust dry materials.
@@DeagleGamesTV computers easily can, my pc runs a 1500w power supply and since my house is old its plugged into (first a very save surge protector) a 2 prong outlet
note that i shut it off each night after im done using it but some people i know keep theirs on 24/7 wich is jus dum more for security reasons but that's a different thing
@@weedjesus5587 lol your computer has a 1500w power supply and it has NEVER reached that 1500w. 1500w is huge overkill for a gaming PC even with the best graphics card and 128gb of ram and the best CPU available currently. Your computer also is smart enough to not pull wattage it doesn't need. So when you are not using 100% of the computer it uses less wattage, if you're just browsing youtube it is probably using ~150w.
Not even close to a space heater.
As an electrician, I would estimate that 1/3-1/2 of winter service calls we get are because of space heaters burning up receptacles, and wires.
I would never use one in my house on a 15a circuit.
Maybe a 20a
Yes. The answer is yes. I've seen it happen. I've seen fully electric space heaters sold at Lowes back around 2018 have the fan motor seize up and catch on fire. Flames were coming out of the front of it. Literally unplugged it and threw it out the front door into the snow.
So Dreo sent you a heater knowing you would be deliberately using it in hillariously unsafe ways to start a fire?
That's confidence in their product.
It's free product safety testing.
That’s marketing!
I was like someone sponsored this madness!? Bold marketing indeed.
They are amazing heaters! I love mine!
From a full time firefighter… they absolutely can.
Usually if they have a faulty sensor, or they are old and weren't designed with one, or they are being run the wrong way, or they were designed very poorly and were cheaply made.
Aren't dryers also number 1 causes of fires?
Imagine forgetting the heater would kick on and having a polyester blanket on it .... I had a gas heater in the middle of my apartment. It would kick on with the thermostat but like most people horizontal surfaces are hard to come by. The blanket melted into the heater by the time I woke up. I was scraping plastic out of the vents for weeks. Eventually I had just turn it on with the windows open to air out the smoke.
@@GOAT_GOATERSON actually cooking is the number one that causes fires but you're right about that
@@kalebhopkins248 oh, well that makes sense, you cook almost everyday
I think in a real world scenario, you would toss a towel down in front of a heater. Or Toss down something. I have a hunch that propane heater would catch a bundled up fabric on fire.
Another reason to test it again!
Didn’t he do that last episode
@@theaverageredneck8426 I just checked to confirm, he only did a single layer of fabric like he did in this one. Checked the other heater vids from a year ago. Still the same single layer.
In Alaska, we had a bad wind storm a couple weeks ago in the Matanuska-Susitna (or “Mat-Su”) region that knocked out power to more than 20,000 homes. Stuff like heater/generator/wood stove safety were ESSENTIAL to survival and for keeping pipes from freezing while the hot water heaters were offline. Our house was one of them, and HO BOY it was an EXPERIENCE keeping warm and figuring out when, where and how to use the propane heaters and the generator/electric heaters. Thankfully we made it out alright with no frozen water pipes 👍
Oh eep! I never though of having to warm pipes before. I'm guessing you had to move around the space heaters to keep the pipes warm. Ack
@@OgdenM It was 2 and a half days without power, and thankfully the house doesn’t have a basement. The concrete foundation acted as an insulator, and kept the pipes underneath from getting too cold. However, the hot water heater was in the garage, which was very drafty so it quickly got cold. What we did was we kept an eye on the temperature on the garage floor with a digital thermometer, and when it got close to 32 degrees F we would run a propane grill for about 20 minutes or so next to the hot water heater, then let the fumes dissipate over an hour or so, to prevent the fumes from building up. That kept the water from freezing over by the garage. The wood stove in the main house kept the bathroom and kitchen pipes from freezing, thank goodness. It was still around 50 to 60 degrees F when the wood stove was burning as hot as it could, so blankets were necessary to be comfy in the dark. Another family member with a spare generator stopped by and gave us the generator so we could run the space heaters inside along with the wood stove, but we had to run the generator outside because of the generator exhaust. Of course the wind was howling and blowing like crazy, so the generator would cut out periodically despite our best efforts to keep it going, but it was useful when it worked.
Thankfully we made it out alright, we also had a 2004 4WD Chevy Suburban we could use to run to gas stations and grocery stores that somehow stayed open through all that mess, so if we needed water or food we could just buy it. Some of us had some time to breathe so we went to Red Robin for a hot meal and a warm place to be for a couple hours, AND THE POWER CUT OUT MID-MEAL. It came back on a couple minutes later THANK GOODNESS (I nearly had a heart-attack, I only had a debit card to pay for the food and no cash so if the power didn’t come back on…).
I'm in New York right now and after the recent horrible fire in the Bronx I can't stop thinking... These videos are actually helpful. Not only showing the safety features in heaters but also just showing obvious do's and don'ts. Keep up the great work Tyler 👍
My grandparents house caught on fire because of an old electrical space heater. It was the kind that looks like an old fashioned radiator on wheels. Funny enough, we kept using those heaters around the house even after the fire 😂
My bed as a child caught fire due to one also, we used them other places except my room after 😅
My best friend’s grandpa caught on fire
Those are actually the safest heaters generally, the only real danger is user error, like leaving it too close to combustibles.
@@DeagleGamesTV soooooooo the only real danger is ya know the actual main danger.
User error is the main real danger of 90% of things
@@johndorian4078
Most vehicular collisions are caused by user (pilot) error.
Its nice of you to go back over things just because we complain, thank you. That Dreo heater looks really good. I think with all the heaters we are mostly going off things when we were kids. More people had these types of heaters and they were not safe at all, especially with kids around. So once again thank you
They still make the older styles of electrics, but they are generally marketed as "garage heaters". the biggest risk with a modern ceramic element heater isn't the heater itself, its people using too thin of extension cords.
For the love of God, Tyler - please buy a respirator mask. God knows what you're coating your lungs with.
Sure he does cotton and polyester.
He'll be fine. He's coating his lungs with the same material that Steve1989MREInfo coats his stomach with.
Your lungs will heal after awhile, that’s why if a smoker stops smoking then his lungs go back to a healthy persons lungs
@@woodsiewood8310 Bullshit, if that was true, then smokers wouldn't still get emphysema when they quit. The healed scar tissue doesn't function like healthy tissue. That doesn't ever come back. A smoker will never "go back to a healthy persons lungs".
My lungs healed from smoking meth.
I LOVED THE EDIT
your videos keep getting better quality without changing too much
youre just the best tyler :3
Fax‼️
Hey man, I really appreciate your videos and the work you're willing to put in to test your products. I just be careful about burning those synthetic materials. When they burn and melt they release a lot of really nasty gases high in carcinogens. If I can make a recommendation if you're going to be bringing that stuff I do it outside in a more ventilated area. Take care and keep up the good work.
Carcinogens. Let's take that stuff back to California, where even apples are labelled as cancerous. 😛
Today, materials are made to not cause cancer, even when burned. Especially not in the portions he was testing with.
an apartment i was living in while in Japan had a massive fire because someone left clothes above their floor heater to dry them (while they went to work!) and they caught on fire. the first and second floors were completely destroyed by the fire. I was living on the 3rd, and thankfully did not receive much damage.
My girlfriend's best friend and her two kids died in a house fire 2 years ago from a space heater fire, so yes, they can start a fire.
I do appreciate you showing which ones are safe, though. Keep up the good work!
17 people just died in that Bronx highrise too.
The real question is how was the item misused.
We had a house fire in 2018 from a electric heater. A blanket fell near it and it started to smoke it up but I didn't see a fire. I threw it outside and I was late for a doctor appointment so I went back in to get dressed and apparently the wind was so bad it blew the blanket under the house and started a fire. Back then I regretted losing the place I was at. I had to throw my disabled mom out a window and I was burned on 30% of my body. I felt like God hated me, but after I moved away I found life is better where I'm at now and I'm thankful things happen the way they did. Don't underestimate your heater folks.
Just when I think tyler is getting smarter and wiser. he uses water to try to put out a gas fire
Just so you know lightweight blue tarps will catch fire by means of an electric space heater and if you throw in a highly flammable material that puts off fumes that are explosive it’s a for sure thing! I lost a brother in an accident on a job site and this is what happened to him . Now there were some things that all added up to a bad situation but with a synergistic (1+1=3) type of situation. His accident was the tarp had gotten loose and ended up in a heater sat there and smoldered until igniting some fumes and so on… no test needed if something ends up in a heater but tipping a different story… thanks for your information and willingness to air it publicly for all to glean their own conclusions.
God Bless
Tyler you are the uncle I never had. One day in 2020 i just stubbled upon your channel and i never stopped watching. I watch your videos everytime I need to be comforted and sleep. Thank you.
The impact a little video can make! I love your content. Been feeling extra crappy today. But this can help me escape even for just 20/30 mins. Cheers 😊
I was curious on when I started to watching you so I went back and was checking, I’ve watched Tyler for 3 years and I only missed a few videos. Couldn’t even tell that it’s been 3 years. Keep up the amazing content.
You really need multiple layers for a fire to start, so that heat can build up rather than just escape the other side.
As a former fry cook, my clothes would get covered in cooking oil splatter. Try clothes splattered with cooking oil or motor oil for our mechanic friends. Since you’re outside, try putting a can of hairspray next to it as someone may do.
The funniest part of this is Tyler not being able to say “Tip”. 😂
They have plenty of murderers who tried to dispose of bodies in burn barrels, fires, etc, etc. The temp doesn't get hot enough to turn all bone into ash. It's called looking at evidence of others trying to do the same thing and failing without an incinerator.
what the fuck
My house burned down when I was 17. Fire investigator said the cause of the fire was a space heater my mom hooked up on an extension cord that was to small. He told us space heater fires are actually caused by the electrical and being improperly connected to the wrong extension cords. People want them closer to their beds at night and a lot of old homes have bad wiring to boot.
Great video. I would love to see a video with you connecting space heaters to cheap extension cords and/or power strips like SO many people do. It would be awesome to see how likely it is to start a fire.
This would be a more realistic experiment. I don't know anyone who puts pillows on top of kerosene heaters
I haven't watched it yet, but having a background in repairing fire damaged houses, yes. Space heaters are incredibly dangerous. I've been on the scene of multiple deadly house fires caused by space heaters. Also heated blankets.
Absolutely it happened to me thanksgiving night 2021. Oil filled electric radiator heater leaked its oil out and then when dry set the leaked oil on fire. $100,000 in damage and loss.
Crazy Ken from the Computer Clan channel did a good job explaining some space heaters and how they can regulate heat on their own.
Go hug a landmine, scammers.
The only UA-camr that can make videos for longer then 15 minutes that I can actually stand to watch
Wasn’t the apartment fire in Brooklyn, that made national news, determined to be caused by a space heater?
I mean yeah, but also technically no. It was caused by inadequate wiring in conjuction with space heaters drawing way to much power and causing the power lines in the wall to combust.
I work at a foam fabricator and as interesting as your video is when you burned the memory foam and the gel foam which I work with both you were putting yourself in an extremely dangerous situation it should have been done outside the fumes from that stuff can kill you within 12 to 15 seconds it's made of polyethylene. I appreciate your videos you do good work I just want you to be safe. Other than that very nice video.
Just for chaos… would love to see a forced air propane heater!
The only time I've seen a space heater set something on fire was when something blew in the electrics of an electric radiator and that burst into flames lol.
Also I'm pretty sure water isn't great for putting out a petrol fire xD
I worked at a bar that had those white heaters. I bet you can imagine that every time a drunk college kid wanted to move the heater closer they would tell me they did nothing and it stopped heating.
Another reason to test again,
Dreo appears to make a very safe electric heater, which sets to a temperature....
I lit a blanket on fire cuddling with someone for warmth... There was an electric heater next to the bed, and neither of us realized that a corner of the down-filled blanket was too close until we awoke to the wonderful smell of smoke, and found a small fire on the blanket.
We put it out alright, by the way. Blanket took a few stitches and it was good. Lessons learned, all is well.
I would recommend you wear some kind of mask for experiments like this in the future, Tyler. It would suck if you got cancer or something from these fumes. Especially since I love your channel and content.
❄️
Yeah, like with that foam I was just thinking "that smoke has to be pretty bad, like open the garage door and get a fan on at least".
It doesn't matter in this case. I'm convinced he has divine protection and is basically immortal at this rate. Based on what he posts he should have died several videos ago and many times. I can only imagine off camera.
@@molyoxide164 Doesn’t fit snowflake criteria kiddo. Try again
@@fallouthirteen I hear ya for the garage I've always thought the same but maybe its so he doesn't Doxx himself? idk he could also do those test outside at the very least
hands down the best space heater add ive EVER seen, mans throws GAS INTO IT and its like "MORE GIVE ME MORE"
Tyler: Don't call me if you have a fire.
Literally everyone: You didn't have anything to worry about.
The major risk of a space heater isn’t just one single layer of material, it is multiple layers, and or THICK layers!! Love your videos btw Tyler. Keep it up :)
In older houses in my town there were space heaters fed by the actual gas line and had to be turned on with a match. Those would definitely start a fire.
Great vid!! Day 14 of asking Tyler to start a series similar to wish Wednesday where he goes to Dollar Tree and tests all of their off brands compared to the actual brands (tapes, glues, locks, charging cables, ect.) You could call it frugal fridays!
Wow, from making shoes from flex seal to this. The growth has been outstanding
Your electric space heaters are pretty safe, especially the newer ones. One of the bigger issues is extension cords. You should not hook a space heater up using an extension cord, especially those smaller and cheaper extension cords. Also foam when off gassing typically puts off a gas called hydrogen cyanide…. Just for future reference my friend. And when I mean off gassing I’m talking about the smoke which is just unburned fuel……. So…. Yeah.
need to see some not so good quality space heaters from back in the day hahah some of the old ones have to be fire hazards and people still use them everywhere today
Tyler's garage has to be the warmest place to be in the winter!
My apartment almost caught on fire once when my electric heater burnt a hole into my smart plug. The smart plug started making sizzling sounds. It was pretty scary. Even though an electric heater won’t cause fire in the heater part, make sure you don’t plug it into anything but the outlet (not smart plug, power strip, etc) otherwise the other end will cause fire.
You can plug heaters into both power strips and smart outlits. I have my oil-radiating heater plugged into a smart outlet which is plugged into power strip.
The key is getting both that are RATED for high enough wattage. Most Smart outlets are NOT rated high enough. You specifically have to look for one that is made for 1500 volts (which is a max of a electric heater)
But, even in your setup, you probably wouldn't have started a fire. A fire is all about combustible material. So, unless you had stuff sitting on top of the outlet you'll probably just get sparks and plastic melting w/ some smoke until the outlet just fails. It's gonna be smelly but probably won't start a fire.
@@OgdenMthink you mean watts dawg. Which doesn’t give me a ton of confidence in the rest of the comment no offense. But yeah you probably should be able to plug a heater or anything else pulling 1500 watts into proper power strips
Love the space heaters videos along with all your other content
What if you brewed coffee with different liquids? Thought that would be an interesting video.
Keep up the work I love your videos
Tyler, add multiple layers to everything! Like if it fell on a pile of clothes or towels, that way the material can trap the heat and possibly catch fire! The heats going right through the single layers!
Speaking from experience, a space heater can Definitely burn a house down... I lost my home to one burning up while me,my wife and our youngest kid were inside along with 3 of our dogs.
for what its worth (probably nothing coming from a stranger online) i do believe your account of that terrifying fire happening to you HOWEVER i also have many years of using space heaters inside which theyre designed to do and im saying there is zero danger if you arent using a junk heater or having home wiring problems.
I'm terribly sorry that this happened to you. I hope you and your family recovered(or are recovering) well.
@@tubevideoguy762 Would you know if you were having wiring problems before they caused a fire? Not necessarily. A motel in my town burned down when the cleaners left on a bathroom fan. They didn't know they had a problem before they had a fire in the wall. It is wise to never assume a zero danger, and always stay alert and cautious.
Test oil filled heaters next time!!! Majority of the house fires you hear about involve those and I think it’s either multiple heat cycles of the oil and over time you lower it’s boiling/flash point. Another theory is that oil leaks out, the temperature probe is at the top and doesn’t read properly, so it over heats and ignites the oil inside.
Older electric heaters as well since most of them never had a tip sensors.
We just did a whole flammability section in my HVAC-R class. Cottons flash point is about 410F and it auto ignites at 750F
Video idea: Curious how different aerosols affect the space heaters. For example, people may spray Febreeze or other air fresheners in their home, and they could have space heaters going at the same time. Will it cause a fireball, or do nothing, or shut itself off?
Wow, the Dreo heater did really good! I might get one
The thumbnail perfectly illustrates Tyer's whole channel
I think the next device you should test should be a carbon-monoxide meter/alarm 👀😂
🤣🤣🤣
Dreo wanted you to test their product to prove it was safe, and you proved it was, i'm honestly shocked at how well that PTC heater did given the literal torture test it was put through, seems like a really solid product and a testament to how safe a heater can be when properly designed and outfitted, i'm also surprised that the kerosene space heater didn't do more damage to the fabric in the tests, cool and surprising results
Modern materials are treated with flame retardants you need vintage clothes from the early 80s to 60s to catch fire .
I just pictured this video ending with Tyler’s building in flames
When you get sponsored products like that electric heater, you gotta pair them up with other similar products to actually test them. Cause we have no idea how it actually compares
Great Vid! Fire safety 101: water and gas fires do not mix
Oh daddy you’re back! Gimme the OSHA violations I need
I like Tyler's cold and don't disturb the neighbors voice
I suffer from psoriasis and the cream I use says not to get onto clothing because even when it’s dry it can still catch fire easily, I’d love to see if any of these creams do make clothes more flammable
The cream is called Zero Doublebase
That goes well with all the things the airlines tell you not to have on you in case of a cabin fire. Two I remember are polyester clothes and hair spray.
The Mr Buddy heaters are great when you lose power. When we had our last bkackout, I just cracked the basement door going outside, and fired up my "big buddy" heater. Kept us, and my pipes, nice and warm. Also, it can cook bratwurst on the metal grate lol. For safety, bring it outside first though.
Most of these heaters are used in emergency situations..some even cook on them .my suggestion would be try grease if you decide to do another video
Must be nice to not have to run a space heater in every room. 🤣
This might be my favorite series lol 😂
I would be interested to see if they would hatch fire if something were to make it through the bars and touch the actual heating element aswell.
A good addition to this video would be when a smokedetector would sound the alarm, even with the non visible things burning. I would like to see you test different extinguisers on different fires.
this man has so many tools and gadgets, and yet he doesnt know not to pour water on a gas fire.
And he's a diesel engineer…
It worked fine though
Seriously the best sponsored video I’ve ever watched. Next time I’m looking to purchase a space heater I’ve saved the link for this electric heater.
I grew up with those non safety kerosene heaters in the 80's, now those are the ones you need to find and test 🤣
Is anyone else concerned about Tyler just chilling in this closed-up garage and inhaling all this smoke? Because I'm mildly worried.
I believe the kerosine is hotter around the sides. It always shows more burn marks on things that actually hang over the sides instead of at the top.
He tested that in the last video by wrapping a towel on the sides without the top and less happened than putting it on top
@@saraashkir5793 but when he put a blanket on it entirely, the edges were doing far more
@@SOSolacex I get that but I think thats only when the top is covered. The heat cant escape from the top so it gets directed to the sides. But if only the sides are covered then nothing happens. If the whole thing gets covered with no way to let out the heat, then the heater will likely go out from lack of oxygen.
@@saraashkir5793 it won't go out, he tried it before. But the fact that the heat has no proper way to escape is precisely why I want him to cover the entire thing; it makes it get hotter.
I really wanted to see you nail those pieces of cloth on the boards. That would of brought me joy.
i think most fires are thanx to the power lines on the wall melting cuz electric heaters love to overload the cables and melt the socket.
Props to Dreo and any other company brave enough to send their products to Tyler
There's no way tyler doesn't own a fan he can use to exhaust the smoke out of the room.
Grateful they've made things less likely to start fires. The tip over sensors were very intelligent. Then the materials they are using for bedding and clothing is often made to withstand a decent amount of heat. In fact, some bedding and PJs (mostly for children) are coating against fire. They are at least trying to make things safer and that's fantastic. Of course, some things fail but hopefully they'll get them all nailed at some point.
Pretty sure a bunch of people in NY just died in an apartment from a space heater so, probably.
Nice
I responded to an apartment fire one.
The occupant of the room (a 3 year old) "put a blanket on the heater, you it wouldn't get cold".
It burned the whole room and extended into the attic.
The heater was similar to the taller white heater.
I wish I could tell you more about the heater.
I think the blanket was polyester
Fortunately no one was hurt.
As for doing that in your garage. Not a great idea.
Just think of all the toxic fumes coming out of those materials. I could give you a list, but it is pretty extensive, and most are pretty nasty.
Not to mention, if they caught fire, you might not have put the fire out before some really nasty damage happened.
I will add that most blankets and pillows are now required to be made from flame resistant materials.
I also suggest, redoing the test with the heater completely covered by a blanket, to contain the heat.
Thanks for the video.
I love your videos. But I wana say one thing, yes the electric heater turned off. But I’m the past 2 weeks I have been to 2 house fires caused but electric heaters. So yes there safer but there is still flaws. So be careful when you use and heaters.
Definitely don't use them unattended.
i love the shirt! as for the test with the kerosene heater, you need to test that with the materials on the other side of the cage. that is the worry about those, if stuff gets past the cage. growing up in the 80's, we had one of those heaters my mom would run to knock the chill off while us kids were getting ready in the mornings, and we would put our clothes in top of the cage to warm them up before putting them on. this video brought back that memory! but i would give that a try and see if anything ignites. the pillow did that test dripping on it, and not ignite. just need to try the other materials. just a suggestion!
Tip for anyone with gas heaters: NEVER, EVER TRY TO PUT IT OUT WITH WATER! ANY GAS FIRE, DO NOT USE WATER!
A fire extinguisher is the best way to put out a grease fire in the kitchen.
You can use water just fine as long as it's not a large amount of gas.
Tyler, I would love to see you test out drill pumps and abuse the hell out of them. Make them pump way too high with long hoses, pump flammable liquid because they never recommend a user do so. Safety second, Hero Tyler