With a new year just getting started I figured I would ask those that work in their shops especially those where it gets cold outside and you have to have the heat on to get the temps up.
It really doesn't matter how you heat your shop/working area but especially those that have and use a torpedo heater weather you use Propane, Diesel or Kerosene it really doesn't matter. you all need to get a Carbon Monoxide detector.
I went into my workshop to do a small job that I happen heat with a torpedo heater. after about 1-1.5hrs of working with it running I heard it. The alarm going off on the opposite side of the workshop. I knew what it was and went over to see and this is what I saw.
This is the 1st time I ever heard the alarm go off the heater has always burned clean. When I replaced the alarm I first put it directly in-front of the heater for a period of time to see if it would read anything and it didn't. That was after I cleaned the inside of the heater and checked the pump pressure and got no reading, I was always burning Kerosene from Sheetz, except this time I came across a deal at Tractor Supply. They had a 5gal can of kerosene for $15.99 mismarked I'm sure but I got it for that price. I don't know if that has anything to do with why the alarm went off or not but damn glad I had it otherwise who knows what if anything would have happened, but I stopped working and shut the shop down for the night till I can look at the heater.
So my point is while you can trust your working area and everything in it including your heat source you should always "error on the side of caution". This danger is no joke it can kill you and you will never know there is no smell, no color.
Work safe this start of the new year, I know there are others here that work daily with these type heaters (I rarely work in this particular shop in the winter months but I still have one).
It really doesn't matter how you heat your shop/working area but especially those that have and use a torpedo heater weather you use Propane, Diesel or Kerosene it really doesn't matter. you all need to get a Carbon Monoxide detector.
I went into my workshop to do a small job that I happen heat with a torpedo heater. after about 1-1.5hrs of working with it running I heard it. The alarm going off on the opposite side of the workshop. I knew what it was and went over to see and this is what I saw.
This is the 1st time I ever heard the alarm go off the heater has always burned clean. When I replaced the alarm I first put it directly in-front of the heater for a period of time to see if it would read anything and it didn't. That was after I cleaned the inside of the heater and checked the pump pressure and got no reading, I was always burning Kerosene from Sheetz, except this time I came across a deal at Tractor Supply. They had a 5gal can of kerosene for $15.99 mismarked I'm sure but I got it for that price. I don't know if that has anything to do with why the alarm went off or not but damn glad I had it otherwise who knows what if anything would have happened, but I stopped working and shut the shop down for the night till I can look at the heater.
So my point is while you can trust your working area and everything in it including your heat source you should always "error on the side of caution". This danger is no joke it can kill you and you will never know there is no smell, no color.
Work safe this start of the new year, I know there are others here that work daily with these type heaters (I rarely work in this particular shop in the winter months but I still have one).
