Gas and Electricity: Risk Management for Your Home Part 1.

House on fire Gas cylinder and electrical panel

Gas risk management in your home.

 In your house where you live, depending on where you live, there will be a variation, for example, if the piped gas is used if you work with cylinder gas.

 The cylinder gas is heavier than air and if there is a leak it will infiltrate making drains it will stay in the lower part.

 And since piped gas is natural gas, it is lighter than air, it rises, it escapes upward, it is trapped in the ceiling.

 So then knowing this if you work with piped gas you have to worry about ventilation in the upper part of the kitchen two bathrooms etc. tipping these things for you to have a lot of air change the air exchange and release if there is a gas leak it goes away on top.

 Otherwise gas made from petroleum, gas from LPG cylinders then you need to have ventilation at the bottom, at the doors a little separation a higher cut near baseboards you need to have ventilation that this cylinder is not on top of drains etc and thinly sealed close to it to prevent the gas and get stuck inside the Plumbing of that floor of your house, thus avoiding large explosions.

 You work with gas First thing, avoid the heaters for the baths and burn the gas that comes into it and when it's deregulated it changes it generates it yours you'll notice that it's dripping, the flame isn't so blue right, see take care of you can smell a little gas inside the bathroom and even if it doesn't happen every year, have your appliance checked when it's out of control, it releases more water and more carbon monoxide than CO.

Carbon monoxide is what suffocates people after it leads to death carbon monoxide will enter the human being's breath it will seek to recover an oxygen molecule to turn CO2 into carbon dioxide and become nature but CO is carbon monoxide it it's always looking for an oxygen molecule and that's why it enters our breath and deaf oxygen from our blood from our bloodstream from our lungs and makes you dizzy first. of the gas leak.

In this case, what do you do to avoid having heaters? Your very old house with a heater that is already there, do it regularly at least once a year. Do a complete overhaul of this appliance with cleaning. There are several companies that do this, and if you can check tilting windows bathroom doors and if the bathroom is in a suite there is no need to close the bathroom door.

 Open the suite window open the bathroom door and close the bedroom door and allow you to have essential ventilation so the person doesn't die in the gas leak accident.

 Obviously, the maintenance of the gas appliance, the replacement of the Hoses behind the stove in the oven at fairs, the replacement of the Hoses when you have a connection is with a gas cylinder, all of this has to be done regularly.

A gas cylinder hose is said to last 5 years and its manufacturer puts it in the technical standard, but you can change it much earlier because if it gets too greasy and too dirty it won't last for 5 years.

In the restaurant, for example, which has a higher turnover, the gas exchange has to be much anticipated.

Another important issue is the sizing of your stove appliance and its gas heater, it has the right amount of gas for it, if you put the wrong cylinder for the appliance, the cylinder will suffer the appliance will suffer it the chance of leakage increases depending on for the heater, you need to have a larger gas cylinder and not that small one for cooking gas, for example, so this influences whether you do not have a large gas leak in your house, maintaining the issue of proper sizing between the gas supply and your stove.

 Electricity risk management in your home.

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Speaking of electricity, you must be careful to manage the risk in your home in the case of electricity.

 First thing, look at your light panel and your circuit breaker is the one with black one with the little fat knob, it's already out of date, you have to play it for more modern circuit breakers.

 Another thing, the sizing calls an electrician to review the electrical sizing if you have a lot plugged in the same outlet that outlet has to be ideal for distribution over June 1st, singer and adequate voltage.

Refrigerator, air conditioning, saunas, swimming pool motor this type of thing is ideal if it is 220 volts and you have a 220 volts refrigerator you will save energy but if you are adequate you will use less energy and electricity bills decrease and you have a dimension of one circuit breaker for each of these devices.

An air conditioner a circuit breaker, a refrigerator a circuit breaker and so on.

 In the case of home theater DVD video games, television a series of equipment plugged into the same outlet, this is dangerous, ideally, to have more than one outlet and more than one circuit breaker for that set and that is constantly overhauled.

As you put a lot of things plugged into the same outlet, you are heating the wire inside the device, even if it is new and it has a flameproof conduit, always after a period of a few months, years this wire will be without the insulating feature. lose that rubber because it will dry out or it will break and you may have a short circuit inside your wall causing a fire in your house or even burning your appliances.

 So a fundamental electrical overhaul, especially of the frame and the proper dimension according to the distribution in your house.

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