Thread: Dangers of leaving fan and airconditioners on

Originally Posted by 101 Ron

I think you blokes have got it all wrong.
The fan blows the Myasthma through the house and that kills everyone.
Just ask the British government of the 1850s.

Did you mean miasma?

Originally Posted by jimbo110

You will have to "pry mine from my cold dead hands"

I know far too many people who regret getting rid of their wood burners and getting heat pumps etc.

Best thing I ever did was getting rid of the stinking, smoky fireplace and replacing it with an LPG heater.

Originally Posted by Tank

Here's a simple test, open a nearby closed interior door quickly, with a shut up house and observe the flame in the heater (when on low setting), if the flame jumps or flares a little it is being fed air from the flue, it's backdrafting, Regards Frank.

Same thing that sucked my old man into the house fire in the early 80's

Originally Posted by p38arover

Best thing I ever did was getting rid of the stinking, smoky fireplace and replacing it with an LPG heater.

I'm talking enclosed wood burner, not open fire. At $30.00 for a 9kg fill over here, not many use LPG for their main form of heating. Having the gas station price at $1.20 a litre for automotive gas doesn't make it too economic either. No one is in a hurry to convert their cars to LPG these days.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Did you mean miasma?

Yes, they thought it caused the cholera epidemic in London then.

Originally Posted by p38arover

Best thing I ever did was getting rid of the stinking, smoky fireplace and replacing it with an LPG heater.

A bit risky LPG burners usually have a smaller flue than the old chimney, and as they are designed to put more heat out and less up the flue. they can quite easily stall, this is made worse that the LPG produces quite a bit of H20 making the gases in the flue heavier.

A 2kw LPG burner will lift the CO2 content in an average 10m X 10m room to toxic levels with in about 12 mints.

This is a joke yeah?....Ive never heard or read a bigger load of crap in my life.

You have more chance of dying from heat exhaustion on a 35deg night than from Oxygen deprivation.

The amount of 02 that a fan motor could possibly convert (to.........geez I don't know, it wouldn't be C02.....what would it be?) would be minuscule in comparison to the cubic area of the room.

I think there may be other things causing the deaths other than the fan motors.

There are a few box fans to watch out for as they can catch fire.

Edit:
I will also be dragged kicking and screaming if they wanted to take our wood heater away, my wife gets asthma from the reverse cycle aircon due to the dust getting blown around and the same with gas heating but we have no fan on our wood heater and it heats the whole house well and diesnt give her asthma.

If the neibours dont like it they can suck an egg, it only smokes when I first light it or if I put a bit of greenish wood in it not realising it and I asked them all 4 houses each way before I had it fitted if they would mind.



I get my wood for free so you can beat that for cost effectivness.