For almost two months now I have lived in this rental home with two semi random roommates.
Don’t get me wrong, I knew one of them from work…
kind of. It just so happened that my buddy and I both needed current homes at the same time, and his bestie came along. It’s been a pretty great situation so far, however there have been some mysteries. For instance, my buddy and I have not been able to figure out why the smoke detectors in our kitchen were consistently going off. It seemed like every day my buddy and I were rushing around, punching at the air quality control detectors, and desperately trying to get the screeching sounds to stop vibrating through our home while comforting the terrified dog. My associate and I tried everything to improve the indoor air and limit the amount of smoke coming from our stove top, however it just seemed like the air contamination monitors were too sensitive to keep in locale. My associate and I wound up putting the smoke detectors in our kitchens, and hoping our kitchen air kept itself without the sensitive devices. Well, today I solved the great mystery of our touchy smoke detectors. It turns out, it’s not the smoke detectors fault, however the ventilation fan in our kitchen. All this time my buddy and I have been using the ventilation fan over the stove to filter out the smokey particles as they were created. This week, while I was cleaning the stove, I noticed something new. There is no filtration unit in our ventilation fan. Without an air filter or activated carbon in locale, all the overhead exhaust fan does is chance up the air from our stove and shuttle it up higher to the ceiling… right where the smoke detectors are located. I bought a current air filter online for the exhaust fan, so now my buddy and I have laboring smoke detectors again… and the dog isn’t so scared of the kitchen.
