Fire extinguisher placement

Can't see the label. Could be a 2 litres foam. They are readily available, complete with quick-release frame. Yours seems to have a metal nozzle and so may well be able to be serviced. A reliable firm will advise. 

Cymro

Good point about fire blanket. I was told (on my annual visit in February to my local Fire & Safety firm) that blankets alone are now recommended for kitchens. Whatever you get, avoid dry powder and gas (such as CO2).

Cymro

PS, if you buy a blanket, get them to show you how to wrap around your hands and thence lower onto fire. Can practise - without the fire!! - using a tea towel or similar.

v8oholic wrote: I keep mine with the first aid kit though. We all have one of those, right

My wife's father was a pharmacist. It's in the blood (metaphorically). Our bathroom cupboard is kitted out like an A&E department! Hard pressed to find room for my electric razor. I reckon that a tube of Germolene, some plasters, and my Swiss Army knife are all we need, but of course I'm over-ruled "just in case". At least we don't carry a stretcher..... yet.

Cymro

RogerThat wrote:

Cymro wrote:Whatever you get, avoid dry powder and gas (such as CO2).

What options does that leave?  

Foam and / or blanket.

Cymro wrote:Whatever you get, avoid dry powder and gas (such as CO2).

Cymro

PS, if you buy a blanket, get them to show you how to wrap around your hands and thence lower onto fire. Can practise - without the fire!! - using a tea towel or similar.

Why do you say to avoid dry powder and/or gas. 

Thanks
Sally

Sally, I was merely repeating what I'd been told. I've just typed a long reply here - but have deleted it because I thought I'd take the precaution of looking up on the web information about which extinguisher for which fire. I'm not qualified to advise.  I found that it's inevitably complicated, so I deleted my ill-informed draft reply, and have typed this instead.

You might care to look at this by way of example:
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Water mist seems suitable, but very expensive. 2 litre foam will do me as a compromise in the van - though not to be used on electrical or oil etc.

Be that as it may, it's simplified things at home: one large water extinguisher, and 3 foam (of which 1 in van) and a fire blanket.  

It also means that I have additional extinguishers in the garage and in the shed, which are no longer serviceable (eg, one is CO2; another has a plastic nozzle; and one is water.) None of which may actually work, so I can't rely on them but seems such a waste! Those locations are less critical.

The irony is that in 1942 the roof of our house was set on fire by a German incendiary bomb, and the house remained a shell until 1948.  Don't suppose any extinguisher would have contained that!

Cymro

I always felt at work that in the heat of a fire (literally and metaphorically) it’s unlikely anyone would ever check if the extinguisher is suitable. I can’t help feeling it’s the same in the van (or other vehicle).

It’s not an easy decision and I’m not sure I’m much further on. Although I do wonder just what the actual (as opposed to imagined) risk is.

Thank you for that information, it’s very useful. 
Sally