HOW TO USE A FIRE PIT SAFELY

Having a firepit within your backyard can be as great a home accessory as a swimming pool or hot tub. It creates a location where your friends can congregate to tell stories at night time and share laughs. It also allows you to set up space where you and your family can huddle up on a cold night and enjoy a few toasty smores. For all these reasons and more, fire pits are great; there is absolutely no doubt about that. However, they can also be quite dangerous as well.

Fire is a natural hazard. Be that as it may, this has the potential to be so much worse if the source of the flames is located just outside your house. As such, if you’d like to avoid one day coming home and discovering that your property has been burnt to the ground because of a wayward or poorly maintained firepit, it’s important to regularly enforce certain safety precautions.

In this blog, we are going to take a deep dive into the subject of how to use a fire pit safely. We’ll walk you through a few key fire pit precautions, as well as provide you with some tips that will help you keep both yourself and your family safe.

1. Buy a Fire Extinguisher

One of the very first precautionary measures that you’ll need to take when you install a brand new fire pit into your backyard is to purchase a fire extinguisher. This extinguisher should then be kept within close proximity of your firepit at all times. In addition to this, you should make sure that your extinguisher is regularly serviced and filled up as you continue to use your firepit, even if it hasn’t been used before. Because there is nothing worse than discovering that the extinguisher you bought years ago and never used any longer works in a time of crisis.

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