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 UA-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.
28:00 You can hear Tyler get upset because it ain't going the way he wants lmao
The rubber coating melted off and the wires arked.
when i was young, my neighbor's house burned down when his kid left a towel draped over a lamp. similar kind of thing that could be good to test
My brother put a lamp on his blanket to “warm it up for bed” and it started fire
@Conquest Blade let me guess the house burned down or the bed just got burned and charred?
Yes we all died
@@brubowski9468 cool a ghost hello ghosty
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! 😂
@@ayekantspeylgud r/whooosh
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
A space heater DID cause a fire in my room when I was a kid -- the heater was plugged into an inadequate extension cord. The plug in the wall and/or the plug of the extension of the cord were old and corroded -- not clean, bright copper. The plug in the wall overheated, denaturing the outlet material, turning into a lump of carbon, shorting out, spitting out flames into the room, charring a dresser about 6 inches away from the plug. After that, with the plug removed, a new fuse was put in (not by me) and the fireworks resumed until that fuse blew. The house didn't burn down, but that dresser had a huge charred area for the rest of my childhood. If someone had done the penny-in-the-fuse trick the house would have burned down.
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..
@@panickedhispanic5933 How do you game with demonic fire? Oldies playlists?
@@maxwellssilverhammer I play in hell and I like old music 😃
@@panickedhispanic5933 OK boomer 😘
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.
8:45 WOOOSH, THERE GOES TYLER'S BEARD. LMAO
Haha
ironic I find this video the morning after the extension cord my heater was plugged in to caught fire.
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.
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.
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 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've seen the UL listed safety standards.. But now I've seen the Tyler tested safety standards! Hell yeah
I love that your using “20s” music lol, it IS the 20s again!
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. (:
Leave them on for 6 hours. Like when the fires normally start. 3 to 4 in the morning when everyone sleep.
Did you even watch the video? All of them shut down before he could even reach that point from safety mechanisms
@@gamer8622 that doesn't mean that a fire wont happen under different conditions tho. He had the heaters butted up to a cinder block which blocked a lot of the airflow and shut the thermal switches down before they could get hot enough. If it were say a few more inches away and blowing on hanging curtains that weren't sitting on big heat sinks (cinderblocks) they likely would have ignited. I had a heater from Walmart that I plugged in and ran for an hour. I noticed a burning smell and went to turn it off and unplug it. The plug was so hot the plastic was like jello and smelled horrible. It would have gone up I'm sure if I hadn't been there to smell the plug melting.
For real 😎
That’s your houses wiring that caused that though. Not a faulty space heater.
@@tommysanfilippo3165 No, people sleep next to them with blankets and those catch fire. And they have to be at room temp before turning on or they catch fire.
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Tyler:"Alright. Today, we're gonna be breaking rules."
Me: (Presses like button) I'm gonna enjoy this.
Somebody call Rich Evans. We gotta teach this man to be cool about fire safety!
"We're going to be breaking rules today." And this is different from other videos....how?!
The only reason I'm even going to mention the concrete issue is hopefully you'll do more space heater fire videos in different scenarios. You could also try using light bulbs or a toaster.
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.
Noticed the handle was on backwards on the first heater lol. Great video!
man burns house down testing if a space heater can start a fire. he fully sent it
Finally my boy posted something
First thing that caught my eye.......... MR.BEAST!!!!!
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.
he is back, and he didnt age one day, unlike the shit he put in jars before he went on vacation.
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.
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.
Anyone else noticed a bunch of canisters filled with flammable liquids on the floor? Not the best area to conduct heat stress tests.
Perfect place for it depending on your goals, his seems to be destruction so.....all good
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
Nobody:
Tyler: oh its 500 degree
Also tyler: its warm but not hot
They light my joints no problem
i think you should consider the element that the concrete act as a heat sink. the fabric should be applied directly to the heater like a blanket thrown over it or it left up against a couch for a more accurate scenario
hey where did you find that 80s like heater
Probably in the 80s
Probably e bay or craigslist
I bet he went over to his parents house and found it
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.
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.
I’ve had an issue with an oil furnace heater and I know someone else who has too but both issues came from the electrical plug and in both instances they were both plugged into an extension cord.
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.
“ I really just wanted to catch something on fire” I like this guy 😂
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.
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.
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
Dang the fire 🔥 with the extension cord freaked me out. But this was good information to see. However space heaters scare me. So i dont ever see me trying to play around with them like you are here.
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.
Your emergency shut off for most space heaters are your breaker switches/fuses, it's off when your house randomly decides it's not letting a little cube do it's best to kill itself and your house.
Breaker are only designed to protect the circuit within the wall not the heater and its plug
Also may take in consideration of the cinder blocks absorbing the heat.
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....
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.
29:20
Happy New Ye...
oh wait.
I loved the non copyrighted cantina music
Cover the heater with a towel and this definitely catch on fire
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
Just a reminder: Don’t try this at home.
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.
I laughed out loud when you started wrapping the cords. :P
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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@@Bobwehada_Babyitsaboy you must have never been
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
28:00 tyler the 'wire sushi' cheff! Next time wires in the fridge is way tastier. I always prefer cold sushi.
11 views, 37 likes, makes sense...
UA-cam is drunk again 🍺🍷
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
*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*
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.
Finally a fire
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 have a friend who while under the influence of prescribed benzodiazepines.
Fell asleep with his leg hanging off the bed. Maybe 2-3 away from a small space heater. He was wearing jeans & slept for about 12 hrs or better.
When he finally woke up, his Jean's had melted & were fused onto/into his leg. The severity being so great & no less than third degree or greater.
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Killer beard and mustache dude
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...
The cinder blocks are taking most of the heat . Maybe if u try hanging the towels some way🤟🏽