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I live in a row of townhouses. Garage on the first level, two livable stories above that. My neighbor has accidentally remote started their car multiple times in the past few months, car in the garage, totally sealed up. We share a wall between the units and it fills my place with horrible exhaust fumes. Today it happened again. I smelled the fumes, opened up every window, put a fan on to help vent the place, and went over and knocked. Guy is super embarrassed, shuts his car off. I'm still dizzy like 3 hours later, and that's expected if you are exposed to car exhaust. Carbon monoxide has a biological half life of about 5-6 hours, so it takes a while to get rid of it. But here's the thing I'm puzzled by; I have a carbon monoxide detector AND a carbon monoxide meter, and I can't detect anything. The smell of exhaust is so bad in the most impacted rooms that you can practically taste it, but apparently the carbon monoxide isn't showing up in the unit (apparently). So this got me thinking, just what is in car exhaust? Is dry wall porous to some but not all gasses? What kind of instrument detects car exhaust? I'm puzzled because I really thought the CO detector would help me avoid getting gassed again. I've got these, I checked both of them: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0174Q3RVG https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002EVNJ6 If you know something help me out because if this happened while I was sleeping it would actually be a Bad Situation.
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Mar 16, 2023 01:07
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my neighbor died this way (but a furnace) get plug in detectors
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Mar 16, 2023 04:56
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and two friend in HS died this way in a cabin on vacation
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Mar 16, 2023 04:59
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maybe talk to the neighbour about it? figure out why its happening and how to stop it happening
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Mar 16, 2023 05:12
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CODChimera posted:maybe talk to the neighbour about it? figure out why its happening and how to stop it happening ask them to buy an electric car
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Mar 16, 2023 05:15
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A well running modern-ish gasoline car puts out very little carbon monoxide. You might be feeling the effects of carbon dioxide. Just like when cooking on gas - a gas stove that works well, won't trigger a carbon monoxide alarm. Verify that your CO detectors are working by putting them into a a glass box/aquarium/big jar together with a tiny candle, then seal the box. When the candle runs out of air it'll start producing CO and trigger the alarm. Try to find a real co2 detector (there are a bunch of fakes on the market), preferably one with audible alarm. Keep an eye/ear on both the CO and the CO2 detector. If you want to make things safer for yourself: Turn off any ventilation systems that use extractor fans. Instead, use somewhat high pressure fans to pressurize your house (not 'pressurize' as in 'using a big air compressor' - you only need a very slight pressure differential). If your neighbor uses natural ventilation or extractor fans, any exhaust gas will not be able to move towards your house because any leaked gas and air will flow from your high pressure house into the lower pressure house and the outside. Here are some detection levels of the CO detector: quote:They are NOT required to warn of low-levels of CO. The UL standard requires detectors to alarm within 90 minutes when exposed to 100 ppm; 35 minutes when exposed to 200 ppm and 15 minutes when exposed to 400 ppm. Some detectors are more sensitive and will, when exposed for many hours, detect or alarm at lower levels. A modern Euro 6 gasoline car is allowed to emit 1000ppm of CO at the emissions test. To make the alarm sound within 15 minutes, about half of the exhaust gas should move into your house. To make it sound within 90 minutes, 10% of the exhaust gas has to reach your house. I don't think you're getting anywhere close to such extreme leakage, so i am not surprised that the CO alarm doesn't go off. LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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Mar 16, 2023 12:19
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Just to be clear I have a CO alarm that plugs into the wall. I was dizzy as poo poo yesterday and had some small nausea it was pretty crazy, but then I started thinking about how stupid this was and I was getting pretty mad and I started getting dizzy again and I think its probably anxiety and stress lol LMFAO
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