My furnace was leaking fuel out on the floor toward the end of the heating season this spring,so I had the service man out this morning before I started it up. He couldn't find a leak anywhere,but when he held his lighter up to the damper with the furnace running,the breeze put it out. We took the pipe down and the chimney was completely plugged at the bottom,just ash and soot that had fallen down. He figured the back pressure was pushing the fuel right back out around the gun while the furnace was actually running. No doubt was filling the house with carbon monoxide too. Guess that explains why I had a headache almost every day last winter. Might have been the best $126 that I've spent in a while.
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Paul from MI
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Once you get a carbon monoxide headache you will never forget it. It feels different than any other headache I ever had. Experienced it several times at the plant when a heat exchanger rusted through. Not a pleasant experience, you were lucky to get it fixed before it fixed you!
Paul
Paul
Glen D Anderson
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Scary thought isn't it?
Invest in a carbon monoxide detector for your bedroom...........that WILL be the BEST money you've ever spent!
Invest in a carbon monoxide detector for your bedroom...........that WILL be the BEST money you've ever spent!
Steven f/AZ
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This is why I think the code for any new home should include a MANDATORY Carbon Monoxide detector - at least one, if not one in every bedroom and one in the common area.
You're lucky to have survived the last heating season!
You're lucky to have survived the last heating season!
Anonymous-0
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Who knows how close of a call that really was.Glad you got to the problem.Once mine kept kicking off.So my friend an HVAC guy said maybe it supposed to do that.He opened up the tin to the chimney and there was a bird blocking the pipe.The bird was in a pose like a taxidermist set it up[open wings].It was so dried out it had no smell either.
showcrop
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our fire dept got a third call to a residence for a CO detector activation and strange smell. Finally I decided to have a close look at the hot water heater and took off the flue pipe. There was a dead squirrel in the pipe between the heater and the chimney. I guess he couldn't get traction to back up in the PVC.
You should have a CO detector in your house. They're very cheap protection considering the potential for disaster. The human body has an affinity for CO at least 50 times that of Oxygen. In other words, the human body just loves carbon monoxide and will opt for it rather than oxygen every time it's tried. The good thing about CO is that it can be used as a tool to rid area of unwanted pests. Just use your head when you do it. Even being outdoors does not guarantee anything. I knew of a kid that was sitting near his dad's woodsplitter and suffered CO poisoning.
jd b puller
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Good friend of mine died from CO poisoning. Had one of those propane fridge's in his camper. Had a problem, never knew it till it was too late. Everyone at work asked where he was (he was always punctual, road construction worker). When they got there he was not breathing (dead). Pulled him out got his ticker going and pumped him full of O2. You'd never know it now. Another 2-5 minutes and he'd be a cabbage. Now has CO detectors.
I think the number they're teaching now is 210 but the muscle myoglobin binds CO 60 times more effectively than it binds oxygen. I knew in the back of my mind that it was 60 but I didn't want to look it up. Your post got me thinking a little bit about it. What is alarming is that a concentration of only .1% CO in the air (air being 21% oxygen) will result in a an eventual 50% concentration of CO in the blood. During the time of this build up of CO the body is taking it on 60 times faster than oxygen.
buickanddeere
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That's another reason to use electric heat or a heat pump rather than having flames/combustion inside your house.
"Something" can't have the potential to go wrong and hurt you if eliminate the "something" that can turn dangerous.
"Something" can't have the potential to go wrong and hurt you if eliminate the "something" that can turn dangerous.
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