Before working in the West Wing we hooked up the furnace that was in the area that will be the storage/work room. Previous owner said it was new and had never been turned on. Couldn't test it during the inspection because the propane had never been run to it.
It is a really good propane furnace that will more than do the job. Bill hooked it up a few weeks ago but had never turned it on except to test it. Works just fine. Puts out lots of heat, super quiet, a good little unit. As he was working this past weekend we started noticing a smell that was funny, it's a new unit must be dust in it. Had a carbon monoxide alarm in the building and it was not going off so everything is fine right? Wrong!!!!!
The previous owner had never put the propane conversion kit on the furnace so it was still set up to run on natural gas. The reason the alarm wasn't going off is that it is such a big area the carbon monoxide was being spread out. On Sunday the alarm started going off. Sunday night Bill mentions that his legs are cramping is this a sign of carbon monoxide poising? Yes Bill, the CO2 was eating the oxygen cells in your body.
We have now taken the furnace completely apart, it will go to a car wash for everything to be cleaned and hopefully the furnace is salvageable. This is now twice that Bill came close to serious injury or death due to the way the previous owner did things.
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