“Most heaters today are 100 times better, but. “The electric heaters that I grew up with were open element,” said Linda Hotz, category director for the Home Comfort team at the home appliance maker De’Longhi, in a phone call. The National Fire Protection Association puts that figure into even starker context, noting that space heaters factor into about 43 percent of home heating-related fires (which includes items like water heaters and fireplaces) and 85 percent of associated deaths.ĭespite those dire numbers, modern space heaters are actually much safer now than they used to be. But as I watched the sparks fade from the smoldering lump of freshly burnt plastic before me, I knew it was up there on the list.Īccording to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, space heaters are involved in more than a thousand home fires every year.
This might not have been the single dumbest thing I’d ever done in my life. Five seconds later, the power strip blew up. I placed it down on top of the wooden workbench where my digital audio workstation was set up and plugged it into the nearest power strip, which just so happened to be the same one through which I ran my half-stack Marshall amplifier. So I grabbed a space heater I was long-term testing for Wirecutter.
I had to get through only a few more guitar overdubs, but my fingers were too cold to play the parts quite right. It was the winter of 2019, and I was down in my unfinished basement putting the finishing touches on my band’s next album.
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