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Originally Posted by MrMaxwell
Maybe you knocked an ashtray into the trash without realizing it?
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i did this a few years ago, dumped an ashtray into a garbage bag thinking everything in the ashtray was out, went downstairs and put the garbage bag into its place in the corner of the kitchen. went back upstairs, maybe 10 minutes later I went back down to the kitchen to get something - garbage bag in flames. i didn't want the embarassment of having a fire truck pull up, had no fire extinguisher, used pails of water to put it out. but the floor was very hot and scorched, the entire floor was hot not just the area around the fire and i was freaking out that the sub floor was burning - i don't have many tools, no axe, i grabbed a big screwdriver and just started tearing the floor apart, ripping away plywood with my bare hands, cutting them all up - opened up a big hole and poured buckets of water into the sub floor and waited all night just in case.
floor cost 5K to repair
