Essential Home Safety Tips for Holiday Parties

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Essential Home Safety Tips for Holiday Parties

The holidays offer the perfect time to have all your family and friends over for a party. With many people packed into your home, however, seemingly harmless environments can quickly turn dangerous. It’s for this reason that you need to maximize your home’s safety before you allow guests to visit. Practice these essential home safety tips for holiday parties to ensure your event remains safe and fun for all involved.

Be Careful with Candles

While lighting a few candles around the dinner table can help maximize the cozy holiday atmosphere, they can easily get tipped over among the chaos. If nearby surfaces are flammable, this can result in a holiday disaster. To cut down on your risk of fire, take extra care to secure your candles in their mounts before lighting them. It’s also crucial that you remove any flammable items from the area to reduce the amount of damage you’d sustain if they did fall.

Block off Your Heating Appliances

With kids and pets free to roam around during a hectic party, you can’t always know that they won’t get themselves hurt. This is especially the case when it comes to your baseboard heater systems. It’s important that you either block off the area entirely or invest in a baseboard heater cover to reduce the chances they’ll get burned when you aren’t looking.

Clear Away Clutter

Throwing a party in a cluttered home can leave people feeling overwhelmed and put a damper on the partying mood. It can also create a dangerous situation if anyone needs to move around quickly or maneuver efficiently through the home. Clutter increases the risk of falls, accidental scrapes, and even bruises if something gets knocked over. If you plan to have several people over, make sure the space remains as open as possible to allow for free movement.

The holidays are important to us at EZ Snap Covers. We want to supply you with the proper tools to keep your home a safe place for everyone this holiday season. Our stock of stylish baseboard heater covers come in a series of shapes and sizes to ensure they perfectly fit any baseboard heater.

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How to measure baseboard heaters:

Step 1
HOW TO MEASURE

Always measure left to right, and twice for accuracy

Floor to top of Fintube | EZ Snap™ Baseboard Heater Covers

Step 1: Floor to top of Wall plate

Measure the height from the floor to the top of the metal wall plate.

Follow our guide for baseboard heater cover measurement:

Any baseboard larger than 7 3/8" (188 mm) will be compatible with our standard cover.

Any measurement greater than 9 3/8" (238 mm) will fit our tall cover.

Fin Tube Height | EZ Snap™ Baseboard Heater Covers

Step 2: Bottom of Fintube to Top of Wall Plate

Measure from the bottom of the finned tube heating element to the top of the metal wall plate,

A measurement of 5 1/2" to 6 3/4" (140 mm – 172 mm) will fit our standard cover.

A measurement of 7 1/2" to 8 3/4" (191 mm – 222 mm) will fit our tall cover.

Depth | Measure | EZ Snap™ Baseboard Heater Cover

Step 3: Back Wall to Front of Fintube

Measure the distance from the wall or the metal wall plate attached to the wall, to the outside of the finned tube heating element.

Any measurement of less than 3 1/8" (76 mm) inches from the wall will fit our

standard cover.

Any measurement of less than 3 1/8" (76 mm) inches from the wall will fit our tall cover.

Step 2
DETERMINE IF BRACKETS ARE NECESSARY

Always measure left to right, and twice for accuracy

Wall Widget

EZ Snap™ Wall Widgets are used when your old or existing wall back plate has been removed or if you have to hang your new cover 1 inch or higher to bring them up to a height that will fit our installation guidelines. Just measure your overall desired height, subtract 1", drill a hole, preferably in a stud and attach it to the wall with the included screw.

Floor Fidgets

EZ Snap™ Floor Fidgets easily raise your new covers ¾ inch to compensate for any ¾ inch floor (wood, tile, or other) that has been installed any time since your baseboard heater was originally installed. May be used for any reason when the overall height has been shortened and the total height is less than 7-½ inches for standard height or 9-½ inches for the TALL height EZ Snap™ BaseBoard Covers. Just use the self-tapping screws to secure them to the top of your existing wallplate.

Wall Contraptions

EZ Snap™ Wall Contraptions are used when your wall back plate has been completely removed. EZ Snap™ Wall Contraptions receives your EZ Snap™ BaseBoard Cover and keeps your aluminum fin tube from sagging. These completely replace your wall back plate. To install, slide up from the bottom and make sure the top is at your desired height. Screw to the wall, then bend the front finger up to hold the fin tube in place.