A good reminder for me too. Thanks.
John
keith nuttle wrote:
We are having the hardwood floors in our upstairs floors sanded and
> varnished. After having put two coats of varnish on the floors, they
> buffed the floor, before applying the final coat. The 800 odd square
> feet produced a couple of gallons of dust. The floor people placed it
> in a bag and placed it in the trash can. Without thinking I moved the
> can into the garage since it was garbage day and the trash had been
> picked up. A couple of hours later my wife called into the living
> room saying she smelt smoke. I went out, could also smell the smoke,
> and opened the garage door. It was full of dark smoke. When I
> realized it was in the trash can and saw no flames, I opened the
> garage door and move the trash can into the drive way and applied
> copious amounts of water.
>
> Fortunately there was no damage except to the plastic trash can. It
> could have been drastically different. We had just moved and there
> were over a hundred of my wife's painting stored in the garage still
> in the cardboard packing. It would have been a different story if we
> had gone shopping as we had discussed.
>
> It did not occur to me that the trash can had the dust of the fresh
> varnish. Nor that varnish and wood dust can start fire by spontaneous
> combustion though I have read it on this newsgroup many time.
>