fun with carbon monoxide!
Sep. 13th, 2011 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateWe have windows:
More windows, less asbestos:
(The ones on the uphill side aren't cut out/placed yet, as they're the two that we're moving out of the old back wall and into the new.)
And the giant hole in the basement:
My camera angle wasn't quite wide enough to show both sides in the same shot:
And like the radiation in those awful films of Chernobyl, the flash picks up dust I cannot see:
There was much concrete dust and a lot of nasty fumes from the saw, and I went in with the respirator (which I had fortunately left upstairs) to pull out the smoke detector, as it wasn't telling us anything we didn't already know. I also opened the rest of the windows, and did an emergency swap on of glass to screen on the basement screen door. Then about three minutes later the carbon monoxide detector started going off, so I had to go back out and let the guy with the saw know that maybe he wanted to get out of there for a bit.
I had effectively the same conversation with both my father (who dropped by because he'd been doing something just down the road and was curious to see the progress) andgrauwulf in which each of them suggested that if the problem was just dust, I might want to unplug the CO detector. I pointed out that they were using a gas-powered saw, and it stayed plugged in.
One of the disturbing construction stories from the neighbors across the street (who did an addition of their own a couple years back, and absolutely hated the guys they were working with) also involved a CO detector going off, due to a generator being placed a bit too near the air intake for the back of the house. I did not have to rush home to deal with it, and did not call the fire department, but other than that I have upheld the tradition of a complete lack of human or pet casualties. (Sadly, we don't seem to have had any casualties among the flying insects that have begun to infiltrate the house, either, but one can't have everything.)
Plumbing & electrical tomorrow, and I even made time to write (in which my eyes were not falling shut, as happened yesterday) so my dead knight has at least half a back-story, heavily influenced by Marie de France.
More windows, less asbestos:
(The ones on the uphill side aren't cut out/placed yet, as they're the two that we're moving out of the old back wall and into the new.)
And the giant hole in the basement:
My camera angle wasn't quite wide enough to show both sides in the same shot:
And like the radiation in those awful films of Chernobyl, the flash picks up dust I cannot see:
There was much concrete dust and a lot of nasty fumes from the saw, and I went in with the respirator (which I had fortunately left upstairs) to pull out the smoke detector, as it wasn't telling us anything we didn't already know. I also opened the rest of the windows, and did an emergency swap on of glass to screen on the basement screen door. Then about three minutes later the carbon monoxide detector started going off, so I had to go back out and let the guy with the saw know that maybe he wanted to get out of there for a bit.
I had effectively the same conversation with both my father (who dropped by because he'd been doing something just down the road and was curious to see the progress) and
grauwulf in which each of them suggested that if the problem was just dust, I might want to unplug the CO detector. I pointed out that they were using a gas-powered saw, and it stayed plugged in. One of the disturbing construction stories from the neighbors across the street (who did an addition of their own a couple years back, and absolutely hated the guys they were working with) also involved a CO detector going off, due to a generator being placed a bit too near the air intake for the back of the house. I did not have to rush home to deal with it, and did not call the fire department, but other than that I have upheld the tradition of a complete lack of human or pet casualties. (Sadly, we don't seem to have had any casualties among the flying insects that have begun to infiltrate the house, either, but one can't have everything.)
Plumbing & electrical tomorrow, and I even made time to write (in which my eyes were not falling shut, as happened yesterday) so my dead knight has at least half a back-story, heavily influenced by Marie de France.