Fire Safety

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It was candles left on the porch in the New Ulm fire. a real shame.
http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/27b162dc4e804f2abb8375d2f051746a/MN--New-Ulm-Fire/.

There are now a number of products, clear or additives that can be used to paint a porch. We are doing it to our deck outside. Maybe I should do it to the front steps as well.

 

[Breakfast Diva]

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them.

 

[InnBloom]

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them..

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them.

Amen to banning candles with 130 year old wood. This whole thing has got me shivering with fear about fire.
But have I told my experience with the battery-operated ones? Got some very pretty ones, and as far as I can tell, numerous folks enjoyed them. Then one day, a couple "not of our usual profile" came as recipients of a free night given as a donation to a fundraiser. Definitely not our usual clientele. Complained at breakfast about how the candles didn't work at all----they lit them and lit them and all they did was smoke. ....Deliver me....They were lighting the battery-operated bulbs.
What's the answer?? Confiscate matches upon check-in?

 

[Mtatoc]

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them..

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them.

Amen to banning candles with 130 year old wood. This whole thing has got me shivering with fear about fire.
But have I told my experience with the battery-operated ones? Got some very pretty ones, and as far as I can tell, numerous folks enjoyed them. Then one day, a couple "not of our usual profile" came as recipients of a free night given as a donation to a fundraiser. Definitely not our usual clientele. Complained at breakfast about how the candles didn't work at all----they lit them and lit them and all they did was smoke. ....Deliver me....They were lighting the battery-operated bulbs.
What's the answer?? Confiscate matches upon check-in?
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Now that is ignorant!!

 

[Breakfast Diva]

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them..

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them.

Amen to banning candles with 130 year old wood. This whole thing has got me shivering with fear about fire.
But have I told my experience with the battery-operated ones? Got some very pretty ones, and as far as I can tell, numerous folks enjoyed them. Then one day, a couple "not of our usual profile" came as recipients of a free night given as a donation to a fundraiser. Definitely not our usual clientele. Complained at breakfast about how the candles didn't work at all----they lit them and lit them and all they did was smoke. ....Deliver me....They were lighting the battery-operated bulbs.
What's the answer?? Confiscate matches upon check-in?
.

LOL My guests do that all the time! I then started putting the battery piller candles upside down so they could see the battery unit. Guess what...they STILL would turn them over and try to light them! These are made so that they will not light. But they will singe and melt the wax. You then get the really "smart" folks who can't understand why it won't light, so they go digging around the wick to expose it more and try to light it again.
The sad/funny thing is, this has happened with EVERY ROOM!!!! I stopped replacing them with new ones and just keep the singed ones, because it will just happen again and again. Now on check-in when I show them their room, I explain about the candles.
Good Grief

 

[Innkeep]

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them..

This was just so tragic. A candalabra that had been lit at dinner on the porch.
We provide battery powered candels in all our guest rooms. I go ballistic when I see real candles guests have brought in. I've had guests get mad at me for taking them out of the room and not just tell them they can't use them. I will always think of this horrific accident when I confiscate guest candles. Except now I won't feel bad about taking them.

Amen to banning candles with 130 year old wood. This whole thing has got me shivering with fear about fire.
But have I told my experience with the battery-operated ones? Got some very pretty ones, and as far as I can tell, numerous folks enjoyed them. Then one day, a couple "not of our usual profile" came as recipients of a free night given as a donation to a fundraiser. Definitely not our usual clientele. Complained at breakfast about how the candles didn't work at all----they lit them and lit them and all they did was smoke. ....Deliver me....They were lighting the battery-operated bulbs.
What's the answer?? Confiscate matches upon check-in?
.

LOL My guests do that all the time! I then started putting the battery piller candles upside down so they could see the battery unit. Guess what...they STILL would turn them over and try to light them! These are made so that they will not light. But they will singe and melt the wax. You then get the really "smart" folks who can't understand why it won't light, so they go digging around the wick to expose it more and try to light it again.
The sad/funny thing is, this has happened with EVERY ROOM!!!! I stopped replacing them with new ones and just keep the singed ones, because it will just happen again and again. Now on check-in when I show them their room, I explain about the candles.
Good Grief
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I have a couple who come frequently to visit their grandchildren. Not only have they tried to light my electric candles, wipe make-up on the white towels instead of the beige washrags, but the best this spring was with the thermostats.
I have 2 air conditioners and a furnace in the attic for 4 guest rooms with a thermostat in each room. Unfortunately if one room turns the little switch to the "off" position it turns everybody else off. So my spiel always includes "don't touch the little switch."
Springtime here is so unpredictable that sometimes the air needs to be on in the daytime and it cools down at night. Well about 2 pm one day my guests in another room weren't able to cool their room down. When I checked the grandparent's room the had the switch all the way over to heat. (I have electric fireplaces with heat in each room.)
When I called them on it he said "You said that turning the switch off would turn everybody else off but you didn't say anything about putting on the heat"
Gotta love 'em. They help pay the bills.

 

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