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Expertise about ventilation problem in condo Nobody 05-09-2007
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Posted by daytona° on May 10, 2007, 9:38 pm
Or you could get some skunk urine and pour it in the registers....clear the
whole damn building out


> B-Hate-Me wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> A friend of mine recently bought a condo. When the woman two floors
>>> below fires up a cigarette (which is pretty much all day), the smoke
>>> smell comes into my friend's condo.
>>
>> Kill the bitch. Problem solved.
> Get a dead mackerel and stuff it up her chute.



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Posted by Lloyd E. Sponenburgh on May 10, 2007, 7:08 am

> I'm hoping the HVAC readers out there can lend a hand in expert advice.
> What are experts for this kind of problem called? My friend needs to
> contact an expert. We phoned the city and they have been no help.

One thing a good indoor person will come equipped with is titanium chloride
"smoke" tracer equipment.

With the cooperation of the tobacco user in the floor below, the technician
can create a really dense plume of non-toxic chemical smoke at the "source",
then trace its path both visibly and with chemical detectors. The method
can find really _tiny_ leaks effectively. HVAC folks use them for ductwork
leak detection (duct deduction<G>).

They aren't controlled materials, so you could buy them from a good
industrial supply (like MSC or McMaster-Carr), if so inclined. They're
small self-contained kits in most incarnations -- no chemical expertice
necessary.

Another item that might be useful is a thermistor based air-flow meter. It
can sense almost microscopic air movements in tight locations, like around
pipe/electrical penetrations in sill plates and wall caps. 'works kind of
like an electronic refrigerant leak detector -- gives out a tone that varies
as air motion is detected.

Of course, the human nose is so sensitive a detector, that the amount of
tobacco smoke necessary to be objectionable might amount to a leak so small
you never can find it.

LLoyd


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