Dutch company Philips Electronics will make house calls to repair almost 12,000 flat panel plasma TV sets in the United States because they are liable to overheating, it said on Friday.

Several incidents of overheating have been reported in the United States but Philips said materials used in the television sets were all flame retardant and there was no risk that they would catch fire.

“As a precaution we’ll go to the consumers and replace the component. There’s no fire risk,” a Philips spokesman said.

He declined to say how much the house calls would cost the company. Philips would approach consumers individually and had not issued a press release.

Tried lately to get anyone else to make a house call?