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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!
Posted by: Vanessa Smith
Date/Time: 18/08/14 10:08:00

It's not only glass objects that can cause problems. We had a terracotta tiled floor laid and it had to have several coats of linseed oil. One evening I kept saying I could smell something burning and thought someone had a bonfire, we went into the kitchen and heard crackling with smoke coming off the container that had been used for the oil. We'd left the sponge that had been used to apply the oil in the dish to carry on the next day, and it was self combusting! We looked on the blurb on the oil container, and in the weeniest of typeface right at the bottom of the instructions was the advice that this could happen as there could be a chemical reaction between the oil and anything used as an applicator if left together. Obviously we should have removed the sponge and rinsed it out. When we told the man at the tile shop he said that in 30 years he had never heard of this. We thought a much bigger warning in a prominent place on the container would have been much more sensible. You live and learn. 


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How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!17/08/14 17:15:00 S Powell
   Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!17/08/14 17:29:00 Michael Brown
      Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!17/08/14 17:52:00 S Powell
         Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!17/08/14 20:34:00 Delilah Hall
            Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!17/08/14 20:55:00 Louise Cole
            Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!17/08/14 21:03:00 Marlene Plimley
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!17/08/14 21:31:00 Andy Pease
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!18/08/14 09:10:00 Colin Jordan
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!18/08/14 10:08:00 Vanessa Smith
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!18/08/14 11:36:00 S Powell
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:How could this possibly cause a freak fire?!18/08/14 11:39:00 S Powell

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