Some people love candles, some people can’t stand ’em. What about you? Do you love them and burn them often? Or dislike them and never burn them?
This is one of our favorite candles. It makes us laugh every time we see it!
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Of all the things this site has posted about safety and fires and accidents? Yeah, lets have a live flame in a small confined space surrounded by flammable materials. I believe if you want to freshen the air, open a widow or use something safer.
Never. Didn’t I read here recently about an RV burning to the ground because owner forgot to put out the candle? If not here, it was local.
Traveling with a big dog makes candles a bit more risky.
I cannot imagine anyone considering candle burning as appropriate in an rv. Confined spaces, always brushing against things in narrow aisles, highly combustible materials, children, pets, & increasing forgetfulness as we age, all scream danger if there is an open flame around. Anyone who burns a candle in an rv has a death wish.
I would rather smell a box of donuts. Would you smoke in a haystack.
Ok, you win!
what a silly question
Fire hazard. However, we have travel sized pillowcases stuffed with red cedar shaving in the coach while in storage. Smells great and bugs hate it.
Yep. The fire hazard scares me, but I’ll be copying your idea of the cedar shavings. Or maybe a bag of cinnamon scented pine cones popular for Christmas.
Most candles have too strong an odor to burn in a confined space. Just fry piece of bacon and see how strong that smell is. And the soot produced from the candle wick coats everything in the RV.
Plus the fire hazard aspect. If you want ambience, buy a few of the LED candles. They replicate a burning candle very well, without the flame.
Using 100 % soy candles and good wicks are 100 % clean burning and not toxic. I would never leave a candle burning when not in the rv.
I hope this question is to get good information to reinforce high regard for safety in the unit.
This question will weed out those born with common sense and those without!
Mighty assumptive dude. Opionated also.
Agree.
No open flames in our 5er except for the gas stove when we are cooking.
Seasonal scents are nice.
No candles, but my wife burns incense frequently.
Uh, no. They stink, and are dangerous.
Candles are just as safe in an RV as they are anywhere else. It’s the user who has to be smart about it. Have used them for decades in brick and RV homes (am full time now) with no issues. Just have to remember not to run with scissors.
Asthma doesn’t allow. Just as bad as cigarette smoke and perfume.
May your smoke alarms be active and your insurance coverage applicable. Amen. Get an essential oil diffuser. Why increase your chances for a Darwin award?
Only use them on the table during dinner
I use the battery-operated tea lights or candles. All the ambience, none of the concern about forgetting to blow them out.
We only have used candles in the RV to help remove cooking smells. I can’t tolerate scented candles because of allergies. If I go into somebody else’s RV and they have anything scented inside I will politely leave.
The photo accompanying the poll is a fire waiting to happen. Hopefully only a photo-stylist would do this and hopefully they had someone with a fire extinguisher standing by.
• The pillow can fall or be knocked onto the flame
• The candle can easily be knocked onto the faux fur
• The candle is resting on precariously balanced boards
I’m in the group that doesn’t allow any candles in a RV. The fire danger is much higher in an RV than in most homes and typically have fewer escape routes.
I would consider myself irresponsible if I lit a candle in our trailer. The trailer is not a stable platform and there is too much chance of a candle falling. Not in our lifetime!. Of course, I only own a 23′ TT so have no idea how stable the larger RV’s might be.
I do use candle “warmers” powered by a cord, so no flame!
Much safer for me as I’ve been known to have a candle “burning” and leave!
I’ve experienced too many fires because of hair dryers, hair curlers, and candles. It is too easy to get distracted, forget, and woossh!
we use battery operated look a like wax candles, no fire hazard with them.
No way! Too dangerous.
if we are boon docking most evenings we light a tea candle in our Ikea lantern~ and visit play games at the table unless we have a fire going…
After the wife set the bathroom on fire to cover the smell, I forbade them anywhere but on the range top. Same goes for the RV – but since we don’t want the cats to accidentally singe themselves, we use Bath & Body Works ‘Wallflowers’ instead when we have shore power. When she brought a candle into the RV, it, err…. “mysteriously” ended up back at home.
NO WAY IN H3!! Watched the video of a RV being deliberately burned a couple of weeks ago…the chief of the fire department said their optimum response time to that campground was 12 min…survival time in the RV 90 sec.
Absolutely not.
I love my battery operated votives. They are lovely and safe.
What about a warmer that uses essential oils from Scentsy? Would that be all right to use in RV ?