Close call tonight!!!

[01XJ]

So today we were sitting here at home when i started not to feel to hot thought well maybe im just getting sick no biggie well less than a hr my wife says she is sick and feels horrible! Well our 18mo daughter was asleep taking her nap and she woke up after couple hrs and played for a min before she started to get grumpy and act tired after being up 20 min. Well me and the wife kept getting sicker and sicker and couldn't figure out why. Well i was on chat and my Mother popped up asked how we were i said sick and told her the story and i said it was weird how we all got sick so fast and cracked the joke i hope it isn't the swine flu!!! She said maybe it is Carbon monoxide poisoning and i was like holly hell that never crossed my mind! All of our stuff is ran off gas in the house so we opened all windows and got out and called the gas company and they informed us do not go back in we will have someone there with in the hr. So we waited outside and he showed up he checked the air and all the appliances with one machine and it all came back clean and ok. Well he said before i leave i want to try a different machine thats more sensitive be right back so he ran out and got it came back checked everything and went to the stove last when all of the sudden his machine went crazy!!! turns out there was a HUGE gas leak behind it and it was pumping out major amounts of CO!!! We were very lucky we got out when we did and called we almost went to bed and if we did we may have not seen morning!!! I know will never go without a CO machine!!! ever!! makes me sick to think we almost didn't go call and just went to bed thinking we were just getting sick and all along it was CO poisoning Still not feeling 100% but 100% better than what we did. He checked every inch of the house and it is all clean and safe now

 

[Shtmtlman]

You didn't smell the gas? Glad you got it taken care of in time. I am an hvac tech and i see this way to often. I HIGHLY reccomend c.o. alarms.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Ditto, no gas smell? I guess I was un-aware you could get CO poisoning from CH4???

 

[solidfrontaxle]

You can if it's burning....

Glad you and your family is ok!

 

[SAMI]

That's intense! Glad you're ok. I sleep easier knowing that I've got a Carbon Monoxcide detector ready to wake up the neighborhood.

 

[Bear T]

Scary stuff, glad you are all ok.

 

[McLovin']

Happy you are still with us. I treated some people for that when I was a firefighter they did loose their pets. It's nothing to mess with.

 

[Cody]

CO itself is tasteless and odorless.....

 

[Thursty]

Whoa!! Glad everyone is allright.

 

[cruiseroutfit]

CO itself is tasteless and odorless.....

True, but raw natural gas is not? CO is a byproduct of the combustion process and is multiplied by poorly running appliances. However I would think Natural Gas would not only smell but would cause more of an asphyxiation due to oxygen displacement versus CO poisoning? Hence my confusion?


Regardless glad you and your family are out and OK.

 

[01XJ]

Ditto, no gas smell? I guess I was un-aware you could get CO poisoning from CH4???

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a deadly, colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. It is produced by the **INCOMPLETE** burning of various fuels, including coal, wood, charcoal, oil, kerosene, propane, and **Natural Gas** there was no smell of gas at all even the guy didnt smell anything. He asked me to pull out the stove so he could check behind it and a soon as i did his machine went off. From us opening all the windows and turning on the AC it flushed out the house of the CO thats why it was not detected when he took a air sample when he first walked in. The valve behind the stove went bad and was letting the gas out. I asked the same question well why didn't we smell gas??? and he said not always will you smell the gas, that the gas company uses a rotten egg agent in the gas so we can smell leaks and thats what we usually smell but not at all times does it work or will you smell it and in our case neither us or him could smell it. So in that case it is ODORLESS and TASTELESS he told me:sick:

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a deadly, colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. It is produced by the **INCOMPLETE** burning of various fuels, including coal, wood, charcoal, oil, kerosene, propane, and **Natural Gas**...

Again, I am intimately aware how CO is produced as a combustion byproduct (burning). But combustion/burning was not happening with a natural gas leak and raw CH4 doesn't just combine with the air and instantly make CO. I'm just trying to learn here

 

[01XJ]

Again, I am intimately aware how CO is produced as a combustion byproduct (burning). But combustion/burning was not happening with a natural gas leak and raw CH4 doesn't just combine with the air and instantly make CO. I'm just trying to learn here

Im with you on being confused im ignorant when it comes to this CO deal? But when he tested behind the stove for the CO the alarm sounded and he told me some number something along the lines that it read XXX.Part per million and that it was at a very unsafe level? He really didnt explain much just he found CO and that the levels were not safe and he fixed it and that the house was safe now and he left. Kinda left us in the dark and stupid about how it all works. So google has been my friend on how this all went down?

 

[Gravy]

wow glad your family is ok.

 

[01XJ]

Hmmm now Cruiser has me worried here i hope that the CO didn't just sit behind the stove because no air was being moved from behind there and from us moving the stove out that it vented and him thinking that replacing the valve fixed it when the actual CO is coming from somewhere else?

 

[SAMI]

Did you buy some CO detectors.. ?????????????

 

[01XJ]

Yes!!! we did buy some i will never go without them now

 

[cruiseroutfit]

Hmmm now Cruiser has me worried here i hope that the CO didn't just sit behind the stove because no air was being moved from behind there and from us moving the stove out that it vented and him thinking that replacing the valve fixed it when the actual CO is coming from somewhere else?

Keep us posted, I really am intrigued to hear what you find out. I live in an older home, I swear some of my appliances are 50 years old, they still work great but I'm sure they are far from efficient. Heck I've got a shop heater in the garage that makes your eyes water with all the doors closed Yet it doesn't fire a CO detector??

There is no doubt in my mind that breathing NG all day long even in a diluted form could cause some wicked headaches and sickness... wonder if the tech that came out just mis-represented the issue? Or maybe leaking natural gas does oxidize and form some kind of CO?

 

[01XJ]

Keep us posted, I really am intrigued to hear what you find out. I live in an older home, I swear some of my appliances are 50 years old, they still work great but I'm sure they are far from efficient. Heck I've got a shop heater in the garage that makes your eyes water with all the doors closed Yet it doesn't fire a CO detector??

There is no doubt in my mind that breathing NG all day long even in a diluted form could cause some wicked headaches and sickness... wonder if the tech that came out just mis-represented the issue? Or maybe leaking natural gas does oxidize and form some kind of CO?

We live in a older home also we actually rent the basement of this older home. It was like late when we called and he came out and dint seem to happy to be here. Like i said he didn't inform us on anything? Maybe i will call them back out today have someone check again and do the upstairs too, the neighbors were gone last night so they couldn't get in there place to check! I will post up if they come back out....But it is time to close up all the windows and turn off AC like yesterday and get the CO detectors up and see what and if anything happens why were are out!. We slept with every window and the AC on full blast last night afraid to sleep

 

[Bart]

That is some scary stuff. Glad you and the family are ok.