Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxide Question Please

[Ted Allen]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

http://www.draeger.com/ST/internet/p...re_tubes_e.pdf

Testing with Draeger tubes falls well outside of the realm of Home Inspecting Sabrina, the gas company may have them. A large Gas/Chemical supplier may have them in your area, Air Products, Linde, Praxair, Air Liquide etc.

Indeed they will, the gas company has everything and they WILL make sure changes are made before the gas is turned back on....

[Sabrina J. Roper]

Originally Posted by jpope

If you're gonna keep screwing around with this totally-inadequate-installation, you may as well just call the local mortuary and reserve your plots. . .

Shut it down until it's fixed. Call an attorney in the morning. As a tenant, you have rights. . .

HeeHee....funny thing....the landlord is an attorney.

This guy saw dollar signs when he bought the property 2 years ago....being the property sit right across the street from a hospital and it also sit on the water front. He thought the hospital was going to buy this property from him for big bucks ....LOL..he found out differently real fast and now has the property up for sell.

He paid 400,000.00 for the property and the hospital across the street offered him 27,000.00

Thanks Sabrina

[Ted Allen]

Originally Posted by Sabrina J. Roper

HeeHee....funny thing....the landlord is an attorney.

This guy saw dollar signs when he bought the property 2 years ago....being the property sit right across the street from a hospital and it also sit on the water front. He thought the hospital was going to buy this property from him for big bucks ....LOL..he found out differently real fast and now has the property up for sell.

He paid 400,000.00 for the property and the hospital across the street offered him 27,000.00

Thanks Sabrina

Well then , sue him!

[relliott]

HI Sabrina..Only read the first page of the other thread but after seeing the pictures there I still would not rule out carbon monoxide.
Your symptoms remind me of it .
Looking at the photo of the flue pipe I see two different diameters at the upper portion with tape around them.
Is this the case as they should have a special connector called a reducer.?

[Jeffrey R. Pope]

Originally Posted by Sabrina J. Roper

HeeHee....funny thing....the landlord is an attorney.

I wasn't trying to be funny. . .

[Sabrina J. Roper]

Originally Posted by relliott

HI Sabrina..Only read the first page of the other thread but after seeing the pictures there I still would not rule out carbon monoxide.
Your symptoms remind me of it .
Looking at the photo of the flue pipe I see two different diameters at the upper portion with tape around them.
Is this the case as they should have a special connector called a reducer.?

Hi relliot,
Thanks for your reply.
I'm going to call the City out here tomorrow. I'm so sick of going thru this BS with my landlord! The gas water heater in my apartment has been shut down.
There's also a sewer line under the building that is broken and he won't fix that either.

Thanks for all replies,
Sabrina

[Sabrina J. Roper]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Sabrina, as has been said on your earlier posts, the vent piping to the water heaters is WRONG. Todd is correct and you should call your local gas company to come out and evaluate your situation.

Well I called the local gas company (city) this morning and they said there will be a $25.00 fee for them to come out and look at the gas water heater.

I can't belive this!! Oh well so much for the city's help.

Thanks again for all replies,
Sabrina

[mnahrgang]

Sabrina,
Pay the $25. It's a small price to pay for your safety. Give up this weeks dinner and movie and instead invest it in possibly saving your own life. Carbon Monixide is nothing to discount. People die from it EVERY Day.

If the gas company determines there is a problem then your lawyer/landlord won't have a lot he can say. He'll have to fix the property. If he doesn't, contact another lawyer yourself, and ask him about how you go about placing your rent check in escro to be held until your landlord responds.

[Sabrina J. Roper]

Originally Posted by mnahrgang

Sabrina,
Pay the $25. It's a small price to pay for your safety. Give up this weeks dinner and movie and instead invest it in possibly saving your own life. Carbon Monixide is nothing to discount. People die from it EVERY Day.

If the gas company determines there is a problem then your lawyer/landlord won't have a lot he can say. He'll have to fix the property. If he doesn't, contact another lawyer yourself, and ask him about how you go about placing your rent check in escro to be held until your landlord responds.

I have 2 New (3 weeks old) First Alert Carbon Monoxide Detectors in my apartment. One is in the same room where the gas water heater is located at and the other is in my hallway. Neither detector has gone off as of yet.

The gas water heater is shut down and will stay shut down til payday til I can afford to pay the city to come out and look at this problem.

[relliott]

Amazing laws you have over there,so I guess I should appreciate peoples gas over here.I can not believe the gas company would not be forced by law to come out in a potential emergency.This kind of negligence from a public utility sickens me.Are you telling me if you call right now and complain you smell gas or have a gas leak these idiots will not come out unless you pay them twenty five dollars.Gosh I hope they get sued right up the old Keyster.
Sabrina I truley feel sorry for you,and the public officials should not be reelected.Best of luck to you. Bob Elliott (licensed Home Inspector)
(feel free to send them a copy of my comment.)

[Sabrina J. Roper]

Originally Posted by relliott

Amazing laws you have over there,so I guess I should appreciate peoples gas over here.I can not believe the gas company would not be forced by law to come out in a potential emergency.This kind of negligence from a public utility sickens me.Are you telling me if you call right now and complain you smell gas or have a gas leak these idiots will not come out unless you pay them twenty five dollars.Gosh I hope they get sued right up the old Keyster.
Sabrina I truley feel sorry for you,and the public officials should not be reelected.Best of luck to you. Bob Elliott (licensed Home Inspector)
(feel free to send them a copy of my comment.)

When I called the City Gas Department I told them that the gas water heater in my apartment was putting out some type of vapour that burns the eyes, nose and throat. The lady on the phone asked is it gas, I said no that it isn't a gas smell, and explain to her it doesn't have a smell to it it just burns the eyes, nose and throat.

She then told me that it would cost 25 bucks to send a guy out to look at it, but if I was a Disabled person it would be free to send a guy out to look at it.

So that's were I stand right now as far as the City of Corpus Christi Gas Co. goes.

I also went to the emergency room yesterday to find out why my eyes, nose and throat were burning. The doctor ran x-rays of my chest, x-rays came back normal. He said my throat was definitly irritated (red) and diagnosed me with Pharyangitis/Trachitis and all that means is irritants that are floating around in tha air you breath.

Thanks again for your reply,
Sabrina

[Kenton H. Shepard, CMI]

Originally Posted by bkelly2

Draeger tubes should do the trick.

http://www.afcintl.com/tubeio.htm

If these tubes are inserted far enough, they'll change the landlord's lackadaisial attitude.

[cduphily]

Originally Posted by jpope

If you're gonna keep screwing around with this totally-inadequate-installation, you may as well just call the local mortuary and reserve your plots. . .

Shut it down until it's fixed. Call an attorney in the morning. As a tenant, you have rights. . .

Worth repeating!

[rwand1]

Why not install an electric water heater?

[Sabrina J. Roper]

Originally Posted by rwand1

Why not install an electric water heater?

My landlord wouldn't even do something like putting in an electric water heater.
He would have to pay an electrician to install an outlet. There's no electrical outlets in the little room the now gas water heater sits in.......Hell, he won't even fin for a new gas water heater much less an electric water heater!

He is a cheap man and doesn't care about anyone who lives in this building. Yes, I could call a lawyer, but it cost money to do this, which I'm a girl on a limited budget and can not afford a lawyer.

The city won't do anything either without being paid to come out here!

I'm so frustrated at this moment I could scream.


Thanks for your reply,
Sabrina