Saved another life today.........

Mark Wolff_2

Good job. I just did a retune of a furnace the homeowner had tuned himself. I got to 4200 ppm of CO before I could pull the probe out of the stack and shut the furnace off. He then told me every time he opened the inspection port, the CO detector in his house would go off! Go figure.

John Ruhnke

Saved another life today........

Fred visited a job site today. He brought his co monitor into the boiler room. The readings were over 70 ppm in the boiler room. The unit read Hi and went off like crazy. It was a sealed combustion boiler, Weil Mcclain Gv-6 series 1. It was old, maybe twenty years. 2200 ppm were comming out the exhaust outside the building. The smoke pipe was this old plastc type that leaked at many of the joints. Fred touched one of the pipes and it came a part. If it fell apart when he wasn't there then there would have been 2200ppm dumping into the house. It turns out there was a government recall on the pipe and fittings. Back then many manufacturers used it. He changed the gas valve and got the co levels in range, 14 ppm coming outside the building, o2 levels 3.2%. He disassembled the smoke pipe and reinstalled evrything. He installed a Co monitor into the basement. I am going to order the new smoke pipe through the recall system and will change that out in a few days.

The sad thing is that there are very few contractors that own a combustion analyser in our area. Even less that actually know how to use it. If the homeowner called in another contractor they may have not found and fixed all the problems right.

I feel like we may have saved a life today. It is a very good feeling to be doing the right thing.

JR

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