Charcoal Bag

[Buck Hartley, CMI]

Why would hang a bag of charcoal in the basement?

The place still smelled!!!!!!!!

[Scott Gilligan, CMI]

Redneck radon kit!

[Patrick Bolliger]

The "general" theory is charcoal absorbs odors...

Years back, there was post on the science of odors and charcoal but it had to do with air filters and activated charcoal filters and such.

This looks like they used "Kingsford"... I hope they didn't use lighter fluid on it...

[James F. McKee]

Amish version of the glade plug in???

[ROBERT W. NEWLAND, JR.]

I went in a friends house and they had a layer of Kingsford all over the garage floor, trying to absorb pet odors. Didn't work too well.

[mnahrgang]

Originally Posted by rnewland

I went in a friends house and they had a layer of Kingsford all over the garage floor, trying to absorb pet odors. Didn't work too well.

Tell him to light it....

[Michael Larson]

Originally Posted by rnewland

I went in a friends house and they had a layer of Kingsford all over the garage floor, trying to absorb pet odors. Didn't work too well.

Tell him he bought the wrong kind.

Activated carbon

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Activated carbon

Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal or activated coal, is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions. [1] The word activated in the name is sometimes substituted by active. Due to its high degree of microporosity, just one gram of activated carbon has a surface area in excess of 500 m² (or about 2 tennis courts), as determined typically by nitrogen gas adsorption. Sufficient activation for useful applications may come solely from the high surface area, though further chemical treatment often enhances the adsorbing properties of the material. Activated carbon is usually derived from charcoal.

[Brian E. Kelly]

Originally Posted by jmckee

Amish version of the glade plug in???