This morning I spotted a mouse basking in the heat generated by my laptop computer. I was just about to leave and visit my parents, so I let it be and thought I would trap it later, and release it in the garden. I had no plans of killing it, but I don´t want mice in my house. However, when I got back I found it laying dead on the floor, cause of death unknown. I threw it into the garden anyway, to serve as fertilizer or bird food or whatever and now I´m feeling bad, as if its death was my fault. Of course the death of a mouse is not the end of the world and I´m no sissy, just wanted to tell someone.
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Or maybe it was starvation, or the cold after I turned off the computer, or maybe it was Skynet after all. In which case I´d better not get a cat.
natural gas has an additive that makes it smell like rotting eggs, if you smell this open doors and windows and call gas company as this can cause an explosion...its often confused with carbon monoxide gas which is the by-product of burning gas/fossil fuels, has no odor but can asphyxiate you and make your brain whonky and kill you...get a CO detector and have your heating system checked if the alarm goes off.
Quote from: Blackbeard on November 13, 2017, 02:15:05 PMnatural gas has an additive that makes it smell like rotting eggs, if you smell this open doors and windows and call gas company as this can cause an explosion...its often confused with carbon monoxide gas which is the by-product of burning gas/fossil fuels, has no odor but can asphyxiate you and make your brain whonky and kill you...get a CO detector and have your heating system checked if the alarm goes off.I wonder... Does natural gas have that stinky additive in every country?
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Quote from: Pablo O'Brien on November 13, 2017, 04:47:43 PMQuote from: Blackbeard on November 13, 2017, 02:15:05 PMnatural gas has an additive that makes it smell like rotting eggs, if you smell this open doors and windows and call gas company as this can cause an explosion...its often confused with carbon monoxide gas which is the by-product of burning gas/fossil fuels, has no odor but can asphyxiate you and make your brain whonky and kill you...get a CO detector and have your heating system checked if the alarm goes off.I wonder... Does natural gas have that stinky additive in every country? I would presume that it is so, for gas lines everywhere.However, there are other gas-sources.In rural region of the US, they often have a Butane tank outside the house, I don't know about these but I would presume they are like the camping gas and don't have the smelly additive. I have seen houses that use the bottles you would use for a BBQ stove, never seen (smelled) one that had an additive with those (or whatever they use is less intense).
Quote from: Etherealicer on November 13, 2017, 05:03:04 PMQuote from: Pablo O'Brien on November 13, 2017, 04:47:43 PMQuote from: Blackbeard on November 13, 2017, 02:15:05 PMnatural gas has an additive that makes it smell like rotting eggs, if you smell this open doors and windows and call gas company as this can cause an explosion...its often confused with carbon monoxide gas which is the by-product of burning gas/fossil fuels, has no odor but can asphyxiate you and make your brain whonky and kill you...get a CO detector and have your heating system checked if the alarm goes off.I wonder... Does natural gas have that stinky additive in every country? I would presume that it is so, for gas lines everywhere.However, there are other gas-sources.In rural region of the US, they often have a Butane tank outside the house, I don't know about these but I would presume they are like the camping gas and don't have the smelly additive. I have seen houses that use the bottles you would use for a BBQ stove, never seen (smelled) one that had an additive with those (or whatever they use is less intense).Within the EU, I think there is some legislation or directive saying that it should be
Quote from: styx on November 13, 2017, 07:51:25 PMQuote from: Etherealicer on November 13, 2017, 05:03:04 PMQuote from: Pablo O'Brien on November 13, 2017, 04:47:43 PMQuote from: Blackbeard on November 13, 2017, 02:15:05 PMnatural gas has an additive that makes it smell like rotting eggs, if you smell this open doors and windows and call gas company as this can cause an explosion...its often confused with carbon monoxide gas which is the by-product of burning gas/fossil fuels, has no odor but can asphyxiate you and make your brain whonky and kill you...get a CO detector and have your heating system checked if the alarm goes off.I wonder... Does natural gas have that stinky additive in every country? I would presume that it is so, for gas lines everywhere.However, there are other gas-sources.In rural region of the US, they often have a Butane tank outside the house, I don't know about these but I would presume they are like the camping gas and don't have the smelly additive. I have seen houses that use the bottles you would use for a BBQ stove, never seen (smelled) one that had an additive with those (or whatever they use is less intense).Within the EU, I think there is some legislation or directive saying that it should beI mean you can smell the butane/propane but I believe that is not a thiol added like they do with natural gas.Funny story about gas. In the lab, the faucets are color coded. Blue for pressurized air, green for water and yellow for gas. One day we had this hotshot medical doctor in our lab supposedly to teaching us something, but obviously not familiar with the color coding. So, he hooked the Bunsen burner up to the green faucet, then panicking when he was unable to ignite the liquid "gas"
Quote from: Etherealicer on November 14, 2017, 08:52:45 AMQuote from: styx on November 13, 2017, 07:51:25 PMQuote from: Etherealicer on November 13, 2017, 05:03:04 PMQuote from: Pablo O'Brien on November 13, 2017, 04:47:43 PMQuote from: Blackbeard on November 13, 2017, 02:15:05 PMnatural gas has an additive that makes it smell like rotting eggs, if you smell this open doors and windows and call gas company as this can cause an explosion...its often confused with carbon monoxide gas which is the by-product of burning gas/fossil fuels, has no odor but can asphyxiate you and make your brain whonky and kill you...get a CO detector and have your heating system checked if the alarm goes off.I wonder... Does natural gas have that stinky additive in every country? I would presume that it is so, for gas lines everywhere.However, there are other gas-sources.In rural region of the US, they often have a Butane tank outside the house, I don't know about these but I would presume they are like the camping gas and don't have the smelly additive. I have seen houses that use the bottles you would use for a BBQ stove, never seen (smelled) one that had an additive with those (or whatever they use is less intense).Within the EU, I think there is some legislation or directive saying that it should beI mean you can smell the butane/propane but I believe that is not a thiol added like they do with natural gas.Funny story about gas. In the lab, the faucets are color coded. Blue for pressurized air, green for water and yellow for gas. One day we had this hotshot medical doctor in our lab supposedly to teaching us something, but obviously not familiar with the color coding. So, he hooked the Bunsen burner up to the green faucet, then panicking when he was unable to ignite the liquid "gas" because it is all too difficult to ask
ive had a few units almost blow me to smithereens. the worst was in a warehouse, they have these unit heaters hung from ceiling, the only way to service some of them is via a forklift with a pallette on the forks and some warehouse guy lifts u up to the unit while standing on the pallette. OSHA would have a field day if they saw this, but they make you do this bs when you work for hvac companies. anyway I was maybe 15-20' off the ground working on the unit when I heard a squealing noise and a small fireball almost took my head off, thankfully I didnt fall off but it was scaryI'm kinda thankful that I had shoulder and knee surgeries and cant do this work anymore cause its a crappy thankless career.
Quote from: Blackbeard on November 14, 2017, 09:36:36 AMive had a few units almost blow me to smithereens. the worst was in a warehouse, they have these unit heaters hung from ceiling, the only way to service some of them is via a forklift with a pallette on the forks and some warehouse guy lifts u up to the unit while standing on the pallette. OSHA would have a field day if they saw this, but they make you do this bs when you work for hvac companies. anyway I was maybe 15-20' off the ground working on the unit when I heard a squealing noise and a small fireball almost took my head off, thankfully I didnt fall off but it was scaryI'm kinda thankful that I had shoulder and knee surgeries and cant do this work anymore cause its a crappy thankless career.OMG!It's infuriating how Health and Safety absolutely has to be adhered to until it doesn't. I have regular arguments with our H&S people over asbestos. I'm supposed to do a monthly visual check on an area where there 'may' be asbestos. It's in the gable end of a second storey apartment that I would need to get on a ladder to survey.Aside from the fact that I am not qualified to assess for asbestos, I am not allowed to climb a ladder as part of my job, so a visual assessment from 15 meters away, conducted by someone unqualified to have an opinion on it, is useless as far as I am concerned.Every month I state the same thing on my risk assessment form and every month I have the same discussion with H&S. Why can't you just write down that you've inspected it? They say. Because if anything happens, it's my signature on the form.
Why can't you just write down that you've inspected it? They say.
I'm not a fan of using poison on rats and mice. Some of it can take up to two weeks to kill, which isn't very humane. Also, I used to live somewhere that used rat poison. The rats had a habit of dying in the walls where you couldn't get at them. One must have died in the bathroom wall because every morning for a week I had to wash away the maggots that had fallen from the corpse into the shower.Now I mostly use an electronic trap called a Rat Zapper.