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Air Filters for Smokers
On 12/18/2010 2:13 PM, Jeff Thies wrote:
I've got some smokers in the rental house and want to add air filtering. I've got a small hepa type filter with an ionizer in temporarily. But since I am dealing with mostly smoke, I wonder if one of the electrostatic types would work just as well if not better. Suggestions? Google is failing me here. Jeff I don't think there is a big enough or potent enough filter. My late Uncle, a Marine smoked so much that everything in his home was covered in a brown film nearly impossible to get off. I inherited several of his guns. I spent many an evening with solvents and oils getting all/most of it off. Smoking in a car can take a thousand to several thousand off it's value. You can hide the odor for a while but it comes back out and no one wants it. |
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Air Filters for Smokers
On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 01:28:04 -0500, Lil Abner wrote:
On 12/18/2010 2:13 PM, Jeff Thies wrote: I've got some smokers in the rental house and want to add air filtering. I've got a small hepa type filter with an ionizer in temporarily. But since I am dealing with mostly smoke, I wonder if one of the electrostatic types would work just as well if not better. Suggestions? Google is failing me here. Jeff I don't think there is a big enough or potent enough filter. My late Uncle, a Marine smoked so much that everything in his home was covered in a brown film nearly impossible to get off. I inherited several of his guns. I spent many an evening with solvents and oils getting all/most of it off. A friend bought a house (all she could afford) and spent weeks washing walls, floors and windows. The windows had so much tar on them that they were almost opaque (walls had the same or more). Smoking in a car can take a thousand to several thousand off it's value. You can hide the odor for a while but it comes back out and no one wants it. Yep. A friend used to buy used cars (rentals, mostly) at auction for a dealership. One thing he'd look for was signs of smoking (he smoked). |
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Air Filters for Smokers
Lil Abner wrote in :
On 12/18/2010 2:13 PM, Jeff Thies wrote: I've got some smokers in the rental house and want to add air filtering. I've got a small hepa type filter with an ionizer in temporarily. But since I am dealing with mostly smoke, I wonder if one of the electrostatic types would work just as well if not better. Suggestions? Google is failing me here. Jeff I don't think there is a big enough or potent enough filter. My late Uncle, a Marine smoked so much that everything in his home was covered in a brown film nearly impossible to get off. I inherited several of his guns. I spent many an evening with solvents and oils getting all/most of it off. Smoking in a car can take a thousand to several thousand off it's value. You can hide the odor for a while but it comes back out and no one wants it. both car rentals and motel/hotel room rentals will charge you extra if you're a smoker,if they allow it at all. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com |
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Air Filters for Smokers
On Dec 19, 6:09*pm, Jim Yanik wrote:
Lil Abner wrote : On 12/18/2010 2:13 PM, Jeff Thies wrote: I've got some smokers in the rental house and want to add air filtering. I've got a small hepa type filter with an ionizer in temporarily. But since I am dealing with mostly smoke, I wonder if one of the electrostatic types would work just as well if not better. Suggestions? Google is failing me here. Jeff I don't think there is a big enough or potent enough filter. My late Uncle, a Marine smoked so much that everything in his home was covered in a brown film nearly impossible to get off. I inherited several of his guns. I spent many an evening with solvents and oils getting all/most of it off. Smoking in a car can take a thousand to several thousand off it's value. You can hide the odor for a while but it comes back out and no one wants it. both car rentals and motel/hotel room rentals will charge you extra if you're a smoker,if they allow it at all. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - soon smoking will be illegal. We all pay the price in higher health care costs smoking around kids even in private homes is truly child abuse and should be proscuted as such |
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Air Filters for Smokers
On 12/19/2010 9:30 PM, wrote:
On 12/19/2010 8:24 PM, wrote: On Dec 19, 6:09 pm, Jim wrote: Lil wrote : On 12/18/2010 2:13 PM, Jeff Thies wrote: I've got some smokers in the rental house and want to add air filtering. I've got a small hepa type filter with an ionizer in temporarily. But since I am dealing with mostly smoke, I wonder if one of the electrostatic types would work just as well if not better. Suggestions? Google is failing me here. Jeff I don't think there is a big enough or potent enough filter. My late Uncle, a Marine smoked so much that everything in his home was covered in a brown film nearly impossible to get off. I inherited several of his guns. I spent many an evening with solvents and oils getting all/most of it off. Smoking in a car can take a thousand to several thousand off it's value. You can hide the odor for a while but it comes back out and no one wants it. both car rentals and motel/hotel room rentals will charge you extra if you're a smoker,if they allow it at all. -- Jim Yanik jyanik at localnet dot com- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - soon smoking will be illegal. We all pay the price in higher health care costs The tax on my ciggies pays for healthcare for all the obesity-related problems ... diabetes, heart disease, joint replacements, long-term disability. smoking around kids even in private homes is truly child abuse and should be proscuted as such Prosecute all the lazy *******s who don't cook and who feed their kids nothing but cola, pizza and fast food. With all of the obtuse and irrelevant discussion of second-hand smoke...a problem vastly exagerated...nobody brings up the millions of tons of pollution produced by businesses. People get very in-your-face at the sight of a cigarette, but jump into their gas guzzlers and drive home and light up their fire places and run their dang noisy gas-powered leaf blowers and pollute MY air. I'm not saying smoking is good, or that second-hand smoke does not have risks, but folks these days sing a one-note song and sing it forever. They drive gas guzzlers and dump poison by the ton into the envirnment, but seem to think that air is pure but for cigarette smoke. And never, ever, do I hear of a tax on alcoholic beverages...would probably balance the federal budget but who wants to pay a dime more for the booze they guzzle daily, or think about the health and social hazards of doing so. I'm just sayin'... Cig. smoking became popular partly as an answer to weight control. It would be ironic, but not terribly surprising, if enough people quit smoking only to discover that doing so, statistically, leads to reducing life expectancy because of the increase in obesity-related illnesses? Just FYI, there are plenty of taxes on alcoholic beverages. JACK DANIELS for one pays a whopping $14 a GALLON on every gallon that goes into the aging warehouses. NOT when it is sold, when it is MADE some 7 years before he gets to sell it. -- Steve Barker remove the "not" from my address to email |
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