Carbon Monoxide Question

[Goldenboy]

Last month I did a job where the customer moved all the furniture and blocked the front door. So I had access through the garage. My van was parked down the driveway about 25 feet. The wind was blowing right into the garage. I was running my hoses through the garage then into the house where I had the door cracked to get into the house. I could really smell the exhaust from my machine. Every room I cleaned in I opened a window. Nobody was home. But am I safe cleaning in a room with a window open?

Golden Boy

 

[Bob Savage]

Last month I did a job where the customer moved all the furniture and blocked the front door. So I had access through the garage. My van was parked down the driveway about 25 feet. The wind was blowing right into the garage. I was running my hoses through the garage then into the house where I had the door cracked to get into the house. I could really smell the exhaust from my machine. Every room I cleaned in I opened a window. Nobody was home. But am I safe cleaning in a room with a window open?


Golden Boy

In cases like you described, I close down the garage door until it meets the hoses coming in.

Add a door blanket to the door from garage to inside, and you've got a great seal from CO, and the cold air.

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Sometimes I'll route hoses thru a window and stuff a couple of towels in the gap.

As Waldo noted wind currents can push exhaust inside. My daughter and I had CO detectors go off inside when the truck was 15' from the open garage and kitchen door.

 

[GCCLee]

This is really scary stuff if you think about it.

 

[mirf]

Going to purchase a CO dectector for the truck today. With what we do and not always being on a truck could be a very important safety procedure with this cold.

 

[Becker]

Going to purchase a CO dectector for the truck today. With what we do and not always being on a truck could be a very important safety procedure with this cold.

In the cause Waldo describes. A co detector at the truck could have fine readings. But the house be dangerous. We using slide ins have a large volume of air pushing away from the van.

Exhaust smell and co gases could be related. But the odor of exhaust is not at all an indicator of safety. Co is odorless.

 

[Bob Savage]

Sometimes I'll route hoses thru a window and stuff a couple of towels in the gap.

As Waldo noted wind currents can push exhaust inside. My daughter and I had CO detectors go off inside when the truck was 15' from the open garage and kitchen door.

The window idea is usually an entrance from un-cleared snow and possibly landscaping, and would not be my first choice.

 

[NobleCarpetCleaners]

It's good (I mean really good) that you smell it because then you're aware it's present and can manage it. It's why they put stink in acetylene welding gas.

 

[Mikey P]

sell that POS and get a new Aerotech.


zero emissions.

 

[Mikey P]

get out of the ghetto, hippie


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bJGTSIx3Pg

 

[Lee Stockwell]

The window idea is usually an entrance from un-cleared snow and possibly landscaping, and would not be my first choice.

Not in Kentucky :-)