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centash

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Middle daughter just got back from central British Columbia to get ready for her Masters program at university. She spent the summer planting trees and was in some pretty smoky areas. She left her duffel bag of work clothes open and was in the process of washing them when the smoke detector went off! Is it even possible to transport smoke? Her clothes sure smelt of it.
Ben
 
It might be fun to wave some of the clothes past the smoke detector or set them by it to see if it goes off again. I suspect it will.

Please tell us if anything worked well to get the smoke smell out of those clothes.
 
My wife and I road through BC and the Yukon two weeks ago on my motorcycle coming back from Alaska. Our clothes would stink up the corner in my motel room where I would hang them up at night. We would leave our riding coats with the bike outside. I guess my riding back to Mi. eventually got the smell out because they didn't smell by the time I got home.

Some areas are worse than others but even on a clear day there is still a haze in the air which is also in the North Western parts of the US that I traveled through. Some areas recommend you limit your time outside as a result.
 
You better bet that amount of smoke will set off the detector. Shows you have a very good and sensitive unit. They use a very tiny radioactive isotope as a sorce. Down at work the night shift has problems when guests check in and the units in the rooms start going off on the Honeywell detectors. It is code name "steam from the shower". It actually means they were smoking pot.
 
Often wondered how smoke detectors know the difference in cigarette smoke and something burning.

No smokers in my house, but when I go to the deer camp, there are plenty of smokers inside the bunk house, and the detectors don't go off. But light up a small piece of paper and they will!

Lots of standing around the campfire too, and never had the smell set them off.

Don't know about the pot though, I'll have to ask those more experienced! LOL
 
Or cooking bacon. In our previous house, I could forget to open the flue in the fireplace and the room would half fill with smoke and the detector no more than 15' away wouldn't go off. Happened more than once. But if I let the bacon just START to get crisp, it would go off. Had to open windows/doors, wave a towel at the detector to get it to stop. Same distance to the smoke alarm as the fireplace. Go figure. It did go off one time when a box on the counter fell over in the middle of the night and hit the toaster lever. Got up at 2:00 AM to a screaming alarm and the toaster glowing away. Bottom of upper cabinet was already getting pretty hot. It saved our bacon that day (pun intended).
 
We did not have a smoke detector at the time, but when I was going to college many years ago I used to work for the Forestry Service on spring fire crews, and when I cmae in I am reasonably certian my clothes would have set off a smoke detector.
 
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