I have a gas water heater outside - do I need a carbon monoxide detector?

Carol L

Answer
When you are burning indoors any type of liquid or solid fuel for heating, cooking or other use, you should have an active carbon monoxide detector installed in your home.

If you have fuel-burning appliances on more than one level of your home, you should have a carbon monoxide detector on each floor. For example, if you have a gas range on the main floor and a wood-burning fireplace on the lower level, you should have detectors on each of these floors.

Such fuel-burning appliances are generally tested and safe to use, but should there be a clogged vent line or any part of the appliance that becomes faulty, it could release hazardous levels of carbon monoxide in your home and death can occur within minutes. But you can keep your family safe by using a carbon monoxide detector which can alert you to the presence of this silent toxic gas.

If you work regularly on running vehicles in a closed garage, you should also consider installing a unit in that area.

Carbon Monoxide Readings... deadly? Please read!?

KaDy

Hi, My carbon monoxide detector said 11 about an hour ago, The pilot light went out on the gas fireplace. Is 11 bad? I have animals in my house and I want to make sure they are going to be okay. The detector says 0 now.

Answer
The carbon monoxide seems to be coming from the gas fireplace since carbon monoxide is produced by the incomplete burning(combustion) of solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels.If you smoke a couple of cigarettes, or someone had been smoking a cigar in the last hour, you could hit 11ppm CO in your home. Cigarette smokers exhale between 4 and 9 ppm CO all the time. And, if you're in a city, it's possible that the background CO rises to that level during the day. The mechanic's meter might hit 12-15 ppm standing in the middle of your back yard!
Besides, 11-12ppm CO may be ambient conditions and nothing to really worry about. It could also be "left over" output from cooking or some other activity. To make it even more complicated, the cheap CO meters and many residential CO detectors are cross-sensitive to other gasses, like methane, butane, alcohol, aerosols, etc. I've seen "Pam" cooking spray put a CO detector into alarm.
Besides, if you had been cooking, using the oven, heating water on the stove, or had a door or window open that could cause your flue(any duct or passage for air, gas, or the like) to down draft, you might see 5-20ppm in the house for a period of time. An oven will produce anywhere from 20 to 600 ppm when operating. Most run in the 30-100ppm range.

You should still check with the local firedepartment or call the company that made The detector your using.

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is it necessary to ventilate a gas fireplace?

Marsha

We have a gas fireplace. It has a chiminey. Do you need to have ventilation to the outside

Answer
If you do not have a ventless gas fireplace it must be vented outdoors. Some states have banned these fireplaces due to environmental and safety hazard reasons. They potentially build up carbon monoxide, deplete oxygen, and lead to unconsciousness or even suffocation. Even with a outdoor vented fireplace, when you are burning indoors any type of liquid or solid fuel for heating, cooking or other use, you should have an active carbon monoxide detector installed in your home.

If you have fuel-burning appliances on more than one level of your home, you should have a carbon monoxide detector on each floor. For example, if you have a gas range on the main floor and a furnace on the lower level, you should have detectors on each of these floors.

Such fuel-burning appliances are generally tested and safe to use, but should there be a clogged vent line or any part of the appliance that becomes faulty, it could release hazardous levels of carbon monoxide in your home and death can occur within minutes. But you can keep your family safe by using a carbon monoxide detector which can alert you to the presence of this silent toxic gas.

If you work regularly on running vehicles in a closed garage, you should also consider installing a unit in that area.
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What impact do humans have on the carbon cycle? ?

Q. What impact do humans have on the carbon cycle? ? i need help on that
my teacher told me "You are confusing carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide"

here is my answer[you don't have to read if you don't want]
"Humans take fossil fuels, burn them to release energy, and produce CO2 in the atmosphere. Humans and other animals breathing CO2 is normal part of the cycle. Taking billions of years of collected solid carbon deposits, and burning them into the atmosphere as CO2 within a couple-hundred years, is NOT the normal part of the cycle. The CO2 breathing plants are not keeping up, and the CO2 is accumulating. It's bad that Carbon Dioxide is accumulating because it has a greater affinity for hemoglobin than oxygen and can kick the oxygen off of hemoglobin causing a person to suffocate, but you can't smell it or taste it so it is extremely dangerous. That's why they have home CO detectors.
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so what's the correct one?

Answer
Good answer but the chemical that you described at the end is Carbon Monoxide not Carbon Dioxide (two very different chemicals in the way they behave and abundance). CO2 is far more abundant than CO not as nearly as dangerous (or at least not as inherently dangerous). CO2 does NOT have a greater affinity for hemoglobin than oxygen, however CO does and that is why it is so much more dangerous.

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Carbon Monoxide Readings... deadly? Please read!?

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KaDy

Hi, My carbon monoxide detector said 11 about an hour ago, The pilot light went out on the gas fireplace. Is 11 bad? I have animals in my house and I want to make sure they are going to be okay. The detector says 0 now.

Answer
The carbon monoxide seems to be coming from the gas fireplace since carbon monoxide is produced by the incomplete burning(combustion) of solid, liquid, and gaseous fuels.If you smoke a couple of cigarettes, or someone had been smoking a cigar in the last hour, you could hit 11ppm CO in your home. Cigarette smokers exhale between 4 and 9 ppm CO all the time. And, if you're in a city, it's possible that the background CO rises to that level during the day. The mechanic's meter might hit 12-15 ppm standing in the middle of your back yard!
Besides, 11-12ppm CO may be ambient conditions and nothing to really worry about. It could also be "left over" output from cooking or some other activity. To make it even more complicated, the cheap CO meters and many residential CO detectors are cross-sensitive to other gasses, like methane, butane, alcohol, aerosols, etc. I've seen "Pam" cooking spray put a CO detector into alarm.
Besides, if you had been cooking, using the oven, heating water on the stove, or had a door or window open that could cause your flue(any duct or passage for air, gas, or the like) to down draft, you might see 5-20ppm in the house for a period of time. An oven will produce anywhere from 20 to 600 ppm when operating. Most run in the 30-100ppm range.

You should still check with the local firedepartment or call the company that made The detector your using.

I have a gas water heater outside - do I need a carbon monoxide detector?

Carol L

Answer
When you are burning indoors any type of liquid or solid fuel for heating, cooking or other use, you should have an active carbon monoxide detector installed in your home.

If you have fuel-burning appliances on more than one level of your home, you should have a carbon monoxide detector on each floor. For example, if you have a gas range on the main floor and a wood-burning fireplace on the lower level, you should have detectors on each of these floors.

Such fuel-burning appliances are generally tested and safe to use, but should there be a clogged vent line or any part of the appliance that becomes faulty, it could release hazardous levels of carbon monoxide in your home and death can occur within minutes. But you can keep your family safe by using a carbon monoxide detector which can alert you to the presence of this silent toxic gas.

If you work regularly on running vehicles in a closed garage, you should also consider installing a unit in that area.

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do i need fresh air intake for my pellet stove?

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shanecal

i have a breckwell big e pellet stove that was recently installed. yesterday was the second time we've run it so far. we shut if off about 1030 and went to bed. at 6 am we awoke to our carbon monoxide detectors sounding. we opened the windows and they quickly shut off. after asking around, we've determined that the monoxide sensor may need to be replaced, or perhaps that our home is insulated very well, and we should consider drawing in fresh air for the stove. any insight anyone could provide for this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer
All appliances that actually burn something be it oil gas or solid fuel need an air supply to compete combustion properly otherwise it produces the thing that set off your CO alarms, Carbon Monoxide. I would suggest you recall whoever installed it to return and do the job properly or if it was a DIY job check with the instructions or the manufacturer on their requirements/recomendations

biology homework help?

Q. [this really isn't as long as it looks!]


So i'm falling so far behind on my biology assignments.[im home schooled] three assignments were snet back to me to redo.I had to redo them each four times. Theres only one question on each assignment i need to redo.I cant get it! i dint learn this at my old school before i started this.Help please?


-How are molecules transferred into and out of a cell?
[this is my answer: Diffusion.Molecules are transferred into and out of a cell by particles moving from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration.
Transport proteins They are embedded in the phospho lipid bilayer]

The teacher said 'There is another way, too. Also what is the classification of the two ways (two words). This answer is pretty clear in the lesson.' Well i dont get it then!


-What impact do humans have on the carbon cycle? it gave this link but it doesn't work on my computer? http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/102/ecosystem.html
[my answer 'its long' Humans take fossil fuels, burn them to release energy, and produce CO2 in the atmosphere. Humans and other animals breathing CO2 is normal part of the cycle. Taking billions of years of collected solid carbon deposits, and burning them into the atmosphere as CO2 within a couple-hundred years, is NOT the normal part of the cycle. The CO2 breathing plants are not keeping up, and the CO2 is accumulating. It's bad that Carbon Dioxide is accumulating because it has a greater affinity for hemoglobin than oxygen and can kick the oxygen off of hemoglobin causing a person to suffocate, but you can't smell it or taste it so it is extremely dangerous. That's why they have home CO detectors.
]

'the teacher said You are confusing carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide'

Answer
-How are molecules transferred into and out of a cell?

The general term is *transport*. The two kinds are active and passive. Diffusion, like you mentioned is high to low concentration, a specific type of passive transport. Active transport is low to high concentration.

-What impact do humans have on the carbon cycle?

This is straight from the site you gave above:

"The outputs of respiration are the inputs of photosynthesis, and the outputs of photosynthesis are the inputs of respiration...Humans have a great impact on the carbon cycle because when we burn fossil fuels we release excess carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This means that more carbon dioxide goes into the oceans, and more is present in the atmosphere. The latter condition causes global warming, because the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere allows more energy to reach the Earth from the sun than it allows to escape from the Earth into space."

Carbon monoxide is the dangerous one you can't detect with the senses.

Hope this helps!


Good luck!

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I have a gas water heater outside - do I need a carbon monoxide detector?

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Carol L

Answer
When you are burning indoors any type of liquid or solid fuel for heating, cooking or other use, you should have an active carbon monoxide detector installed in your home.

If you have fuel-burning appliances on more than one level of your home, you should have a carbon monoxide detector on each floor. For example, if you have a gas range on the main floor and a wood-burning fireplace on the lower level, you should have detectors on each of these floors.

Such fuel-burning appliances are generally tested and safe to use, but should there be a clogged vent line or any part of the appliance that becomes faulty, it could release hazardous levels of carbon monoxide in your home and death can occur within minutes. But you can keep your family safe by using a carbon monoxide detector which can alert you to the presence of this silent toxic gas.

If you work regularly on running vehicles in a closed garage, you should also consider installing a unit in that area.

do i need fresh air intake for my pellet stove?

shanecal

i have a breckwell big e pellet stove that was recently installed. yesterday was the second time we've run it so far. we shut if off about 1030 and went to bed. at 6 am we awoke to our carbon monoxide detectors sounding. we opened the windows and they quickly shut off. after asking around, we've determined that the monoxide sensor may need to be replaced, or perhaps that our home is insulated very well, and we should consider drawing in fresh air for the stove. any insight anyone could provide for this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer
All appliances that actually burn something be it oil gas or solid fuel need an air supply to compete combustion properly otherwise it produces the thing that set off your CO alarms, Carbon Monoxide. I would suggest you recall whoever installed it to return and do the job properly or if it was a DIY job check with the instructions or the manufacturer on their requirements/recomendations

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Can I burn wood in my gas fireplace?

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MthrNature

I live in a house built in 2003. The fire place has never been used. Today I had a plumber install what looks like a tube with holes connected to a gas line. it produces many little flames across the fireplace. My plumber said that this will be used to light the wood and then I turn the gas off. I asked him a few times "are you sure this fireplace is meant for wood and not those fake gas logs?" He said I could do either.

I'm perplexed. For the life of me I never heard of a dual fireplace. I don't know how to assess the situation. Honestly, I'd love to burn wood in my new house! It has a metal rack for the wood, a chain screen, and a glass enclosure just like other fireplaces. I'm nervous though. The last thing I need are dead family members or a burned down house, or smoke damage, etc.

It is 2011...My house is 2003. It is a tract home neighborhood. How do I find out definitively if I can burn wood. If I can't do what can I do to make those little blue flames look like and warm like a wood fire?

Answer
First of all you should have carbon monoxide detectors in your home.

There are two very similar appliances with two very different applications. It sounds like your plumber has installed a LOG LIGHTER fireplace. You should have a control valve or "key valve " that you use to turn on the gas while lighting the burner. On a log lighter fireplace the valve would normally be located outside of the fireplace. This type of fireplace can be used with a fake log set or can be used to light wood fires and then the gas can be shut off.

A typical GAS LOG ( fake log ) fireplace may or may not have a key valve outside the fireplace but will have either a manual ( turn the knob ) valve or a millivolt ( flip the switch ) valve, with the valve normally located in the fireplace. This type can NOT be used with solid fuel ( wood or anything other than gas ).

The main difference being the type and location of the control valve.

log lighter:
valve is a simple on off valve, gas on, gas off. and is normally outside the fireplace.

gas log set:
valve has a pilot light for easy ignition and pilot safety function that automatically shuts the gas off in the event of a flame outage.
The control valve is normally located inside the fireplace.
Pilot safety control valves have heat tolerances that burning solid fuel will quickly exceed, causing damage to the valve and possible safety concerns.

By the way, it is not unusual for a plumber to be a licensed gas piper, it is just a different type of plumbing after all. Make sure yours is and follow his advice!

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