Shop safety

[Supergas990]

I will add a safety word for regular shop system maintenance.

We built our shop in 2004 and installed a modulating boiler with hydronic heat in the floor. For years it has been a great operation. Then this year I fired the system up, so my wife could refinish some furniture in a nice warm place.

It wasn't a couple of hours later that she was almost collasping and complaining of a severe headache. I bought a CO detector and set it up in the shop. The recorded level of CO in the building was more than 250ppm inside and the exhaust level was 8,000ppm. We had to air the shop out, just to investigate the problem with the boiler.

We ended up having a professional out to clean and tune the boiler. $270 later and the shop is back in the safe zone with the CO level at 0ppm.

I never thought about CO poisoning in the shop, but won't go without a detector in there now. Even running your car in an enclosed area can spike the CO levels in a very short period.

You can't be too careful.

Blair