[Shop-talk] Gas water heater vent:

ejrussell at mebtel.net ejrussell at mebtel.net
Sat Aug 9 06:44:10 MDT 2008


> Water heaters normally generate very little CO.

Don't tell that to the people in the hotel room opposite
ours last January.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5cosuit.6524123jul29,0,7967754.story

<quote>Philip D. Prechtel, 63, of Hilton Head, S.C., died
and his wife Katherine and several others were hospitalized
after contractors placed the plastic canopy over the side of
the Best Western Allentown Inn & Suites to complete a stucco
job. But the canopy, the suit alleges, was enclosed over a
basement exhaust vent -- trapping the carbon monoxide
emitted from hot water heaters -- and the poisonous air was
pulled into the rooms by air handling units.</quote>

Eric Russell
Mebane, NC 
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