In retrospect....CO MUST exist

ernie_3

Just reread a thread I posted re: CO. I need to recant a ststement. Obviously one molecule of oxygen can join w' one molecule of carbon to produce deadly CO. In the early 80's when I broke into 'burner world' I was taught that it was gas fired equipment which produced CO. It's just common sense that any combustion can and will produce CO.
I would like to begin testing for CO and certainly the industry should move forward in the interest of public safety. I guess the ol' "Always done it that way" mentality
is now passee. As many boilers I've installed and as many instruction manuals I've pored through....no mention of CO
or one little fotnote. This doesn't seem like 'footnote material.' I continually strive to take my ability to the next level. This seems like one path to do that. One last thing......RE: the engineer post. A mistake is only a mistake if you leave it.

Darin Cook_3

It is a scary thing

when you think about it. How many things that are out there that burn in and around our homes. How many boilers and furnaces go in with zero testing done on them? Only by the grace of God do some of these things vent and prevent some kind of catastrophe. But not all of them vent and those are the ones we read about. I did not know any better for a long time myself. When I put a boiler in, we fired it off and walked away. The company I worked for never had any kind of training for that. If we did a oil appliance we broke out the shaker bottle. I found out yesterday that the fyrite analyzer came out in the early 1900's. I think it is time to update that tool. A analogy I thought of was, would a service tech trouble shoot a control problem with a digital multimeter (so he knew exactly what voltage he was dealing with) or would he take a volt stick that glows when it is near voltage (indicating voltage is present but no idea how much).

CO is created by incomplete combustion. Everything installed that burns, creates CO. ErnieJ it is nice to read here that you do want to be stuck in the " we have always done it that way mentality". Addressing the combustion of the equipment we sell protects the occupants within and makes us a more professional trade as a whole.





Take care

Darin