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Smoke Smell In The House--Harmful?

Discussion in 'Non-EPA Woodstoves and Fireplaces' started by JotulYokel, Jan 25, 2020.

  1. WeldrDave

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    Here's a quote from "world data" and it wasn't from wood stoves.

    Estimates suggest that in a pre-modern, poor world, life expectancy was around 30 years in all regions of the world.

    Life expectancy has increased rapidly since the Age of Enlightenment. In the early 19th century, life expectancy started to increase in the early industrialized countries while it stayed low in the rest of the world. This led to a very high inequality in how health was distributed across the world. Good health in the rich countries and persistently bad health in those countries that remained poor. Over the last decades this global inequality decreased. No country in the world has a lower life expectancy than the countries with the highest life expectancy in 1800. Many countries that not long ago were suffering from bad health are catching up rapidly.

    Since 1900 the global average life expectancy has more than doubled and is now above 70 years. The inequality of life expectancy is still very large across and within countries. in 2019 the country with the lowest life expectancy is the Central African Republic with 53 years, in Japan life expectancy is 30 years longer.
     
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  2. JWinIndiana

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    Is it noisy?? And can I be nosey and ask if you like it, feel it makes a difference and can you share the brand/make/manufacturer?
     
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    My GG Granfather born 1834 lived his whole life fire places and woodstoves. He died in 1929 age 95 years old.
     
  4. BHoller

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    Very true.
     
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    I kind of can't wait for the power to go out on these anti wood stove folks in the dead of winter and they are forced to ask a wood burning neighbor if they could come in for some heat.On another note a neighbor a street over from me was telling me he had his stove going well but when he came in from the outside he could smell wood smoke.He started to check the pipe going through the wall.He dismantle the wall around the pipe and found that the piping was touching a timber.Thus the wood burning smell was the framing.
     
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    We had that big ice storm in January 1998.. no power to many parts of state for weeks.. how quickly some forget.
     
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    Blue by blueair. Chaz said model 221+. It came with 2 of the cloth filters. We change the cloth filter each week. Clean one on, dirty one in wash. It does have 3 setting. Low, med, high. We thought high was a little loud but mad was okay. I think it makes a difference. It doesn't get all the dust but gets a lot. I have had smoke roll out on re loads or a flare, this unit seems to take care of it pretty quickly.
    Oh he got it through Amazon.
    This is what it looks like. The blue part is what we wash every week. For lack of a better name I call that a girdle lol.
    20200504_162454.jpg
     
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    Those BAST@RDS can knock on my door all day long, I'm just gonna ask them if it's cold out there!!! :rofl: :lol::shiver::rofl: :lol::shiver: Sucks to be you!
     
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    Oh forgot to mention average highs here in January are about 18*. So it would be cold :D
     
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    Thank you Chazsbetterhalf ! I will look into it and tell my Mrs. about it. Anything to help her breathe easier.
     
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    :D:thumbs: that is Chaz's thinking also. Do you mind telling me about your wife's issue? If you don't no issue. If it's okay but want to keep it private, send me a pm. I like to include Chaz in private pms.
     
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    People in third world areas that cook on smoky indoor fires definitely have adverse health consequences.

    That is a lot different than the occasional puff of smoke from opening the door too fast or whatever. But if you have a constant smell of wood smoke in the house, something isn't working the way it should be. Health consequences or not, I would be fixing things if I had a constant smoke smell.

    As far as life expectancy being low in the past, that doesn't mean that many people weren't living to get old. The real issue is the large number of young women and infants that died in childbirth coupled with the numerous fatal childhood diseases (mostly ones that we now vaccinate against). It doesn't take a lot of infants, toddlers, and 20 year old women dying to bring the average way down. If you made it to adulthood, you had a decent chance of living to a reasonably old age.
     
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    Well, the Indians that live around here had plenty of Bison hides to help. And hunting them in winter was the way to go as Bison (Buffalo) grow an incredibly thick coat of fur in the winter.
     
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    Not too long after we moved into our current house, I was driving a loader across my backyard when I felt the right rear sink into the ground then level back out. I looked behind me and saw a hole in the ground about 5 ft by 5 ft. and about 5 feet deep. I got out and looked into the hole and saw it was connected to another void in the ground closer to my house. I asked one of the guys I worked with what it might be and he said that I probably found the old outhouse pit. It didn't stink anymore and looked like it was just dirt on the bottom. But, I still didn't want to play around down there. So I filled it up with junk wood, bricks and other stuff, no actual trash, though. Then i asked a friend that works for my town if we could bring over a load of dirt to fill it in the rest of the way and level it out again.

    The reason I was able to find it in the first place was because when plumbing was installed in my town and the outhouse was going away, they just covered the pit with a slab of concrete about 2-3 inches thick. Good enough to walk across and even drive a mower over, but not a big, heavy front loader.

    I will ask my Great uncle when plumbing and electricity was installed in town. I think he said it was late 1940's for electricity.