For almost two months now I have lived in this rental condo 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 friend and I both needed new homes at the same time, and his wifey came along. It’s been a pretty nice situation so far, however there have been some mysteries. For instance, my friend and I haven’t been able to figure out why the smoke detectors in our living room were constantly going off. It seemed like every day my friend 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 condo while comforting the terrified pet. My friend 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 place. My friend and I wound up putting the smoke detectors in our entryways, and hoping our living room air kept itself separate from the sensitive devices. Well, this week I solved the wonderful mystery of our touchy smoke detectors. It turns out, it’s not the smoke detectors fault, however the ventilation fan in our living room. All this time my friend and I have been using the ventilation fan over the stove to filter out the smokey particles as they were created. Today, while I was cleaning the stove, I noticed something new. There is no filtration component in our ventilation fan. Without an air filter or activated carbon in place, all the overhead exhaust fan does is option up the air from our stove and shuttle it up higher to the ceiling… right where the smoke detectors are located. I bought a new air filter online for the exhaust fan, so now my friend and I have working smoke detectors again… and the pet isn’t so scared of the living room.
