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Message: <blockquote data-quote="muzzyhunter" data-source="post: 212481" data-attributes="member: 1093">In addition to furnaces,stove and atomospheric waterheaters are major sources of co,but any combustible appliance is going to give off co.My job deals with worst case draft testing and combustion analasis.When checking co in flue on most ovens it is not uncommon to see levels of a couple hundred ppm,of course this is air free,before mixing with outside air,but is still dumping considerable amounts of co into the home.When cooking large holiday meals or using oven for extended periods use ventilation.If you think back to holiday dinners,where mom or gramma were slaving over stove all day,only to get headache and become irrateable,possibly some co poisioning.Atmospheric waterheaters are probably the easiest combustion appliance to backdraft,I see alot spilling under normal operation.Signs of spillage usually show at the draft hood,some type of corrosion,but not always.I use a manometer to check this,while heater running but can be done with a piece of cobweb,if cobweb is sucked in at draft hood you are drafting.Now to put into worst case,you would turn on all fans venting to the outside,including range hood and dryer,also running air handler on furnace,now in this situation may not be drafting and actually spilling co back into the home.Sorry to ramble on but CO is a big part of my job,and anyone with combustible appliances should have meters to avoid these tagedies.</blockquote>

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