by sebarmageddon » 12/11/09, 15:07
Hello ,
I also have this problem, and I wanted to write a new message on this forum , but did not really know what to put in it and as I see that there is already one, I take advantage of it.
I am confronted with this problem in the following way, on the one hand a chimney A which smokes normally I would say, but which really stinks, on the other hand a chimney B of steam locomotive, which smoke, really too much, and which the also stinks (not dry burnt wood?).
depending on the wind direction, we take either the smoke from the chimney A, or the smoke from the chimney B.
When I open my velux window, I make a gesture for the planet, I ventilate the outside, everyone knows the advice to open the windows to remove the pollution from inside our homes, and well I do the opposite, I open the velux window to drive out the pollution from the outside and bring it back home ...
it may seem like a joke to some, but the situation is such that this is really what is happening, the opening of a window is the assured entry of pollution from these chimneys.
For a few years now, I tell myself that I will write to the member from my area, because there is really enough to see this problem affecting public health, not being resolved, and I cannot help comparing this one , to the Chernobyl cloud that stopped at the French borders, probably he was afraid of finding himself in an irregular situation if he crossed the border ..., it is still that we realize without difficulty that France at a serious annoyance.
so I have two neighbors who heat with wood, but others also use this type of heating in the corner, the conditions are unfavorable around here, since this pollution does not leave easily, the district being in a hollow, which the fact that in winter, in the evening, we observe smog ..., as André-34 says
how, in France, heating with wood can not be a problem, while we observe that in other countries, the authorities emphasize the risks on pollution, but also, on health (hence the parallel that I do with Chernobyl, with our leaders who said that we risked nothing ...), why these countries do something, while in France, nothing ...?
Why does the state introduce a carbon tax, which does not concern wood (as if by chance), rather than a pollution tax?
I talk about Chernobyl, but to think about it, asbestos would rather the right subject, the state knew, other countries had banned (if I'm not mistaken), but France continued with ...
no doubt as traders sell crappy inserts, which are nevertheless permitted by the state, why are not they banned?
I think the lobby is not for nothing in this case ...
go tell their people that their polluting chimney and smoke too much, they will say that you will not prohibit them from heat ... in short, the discution would immediately off topic
force people to put filters on their fireplace, this is it really possible, those who are surrounded by people basking in the woods, have noticed all the soot deposited all over the floor, roofs, etc ..., or a filter is good, but given the amount of soot that are everywhere, the filter would quickly clogged in my opinion, especially in my area, but I do not think it seraiit the case of people with inserts of very good quality.
my parents have an oil fired boiler, it surely pollute, but I do not know how far, lla boiler must have 5ans I think she has not a continuous, yet happy
for cars, there are pollution cuts to manufacturer, and technical control signals pollution of their vehicle with driver, why is it not reproduced for the fireplace, and that whatever the energy used?
no, I really think there's a left to do in France, our authorities surely know all that, but do nothing.
it is clear that we already touch with some disease, and cancer, the state does not solve this pollution problem with fireplace, but he will have to rule health expenditures that go with
personally, in the evening, when I go outside, I sometimes put on a mask like gas mask, with filters that are normally intended for paint vapors, it is effective, I no longer feel the foul odors of chimneys , but does this kind of mask block all the pollutants coming out of chimneys that work with wood?
I have another question, I collect rainwater in a trash can, using a tarp, but this water is contaminated by soot from nearby chimneys (surely that of the steam locomotive on the neighbor's roof), is this water to be considered as polluted, and therefore not to be used to water plants needing clean water?
you will understand that here I am talking about neighbors who surely have an old insert, and who also burn wet wood, and that this case probably cannot be the same as that of a person with neighbors using their chimney correctly with good material
in France the only regulation concerns the height of the chimney flue on the roof, nothing else, so people suffer, see, feel, are sick, but can not do anything about it, it's really the impression that i 'have .
here, I don't see what else to say, except maybe I'm going back to an old post from forum .
Thanks for reading me
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