[GSBN] (not) Re: The Mechanical Ventilation Debate

[John Swearingen]

Did anybody check for methane and hot air???


On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 9:39 AM, RT <archilogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 a Derelict on the loose with a CO sensor gizmo wrote:
>
>  I've just started documenting this with my new super-sensitive carbon
>> monoxide meter.  I've tested the houses of two friends, who have fairly
>> new, good-quality wood stoves.  When I visited, my CO meter initially read
>> 0 parts per million.
>>
>
> [later] > the meter showed an increase in the CO level in the
>
>> room, measured at a distance of about 12 feet from the stove.  In one
>> case, the meter hit over 40 ppm, in the other, around 30 ppm.  In both
>> cases, the readings were still over 15 ppm an hour later,
>>
>
> [with (false) indignancy] This proves NOTHING !
>
> Meter, schmeter. All this proves to me is that if I were to invite the
> Derelict into my home, I can expect the CO levels to increase from 0 ppm
> (as they were before he got there) and stay higher than 0 ppm until he left
> .
>
> And besides, why were the homeowners adding more wood to the woodstove
> while he was there ?
>
> An energy-efficient home would have seen a temperature increase due to the
> additional body(s) dancing about the room, frantically poking the CO gizmo
> into this corner and that.
>
> Something fishy with this "research" if you ask me and I'm not talking
> about fillets.
>
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