Quote Originally Posted by Ginevive
...I toyed with the idea of a rubbermaid rack, but I have this issue with having the heatpads touching plastic; see, we leave home often for hours at a time and sometimes overnight with the business (have a security system and cameras, but that's not the issue) but I am terrified of some plastic melting and starting a fire, and I cannot be convinced that this wouldn't happen...
If you regulate the pad with a t-stat of some kind the pad will only get to 90-95 which will not melt plastic.