One hot mother!!! Be careful in your garage!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dartswinger70 said:
I knew a feeler who had a garage fire with a torpedo heater ,said he was at the front of the car under the hood lokked up and saw the rear end of the car was in flames...said he go the hell out of there...
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A "feeler"?????
 
Treblig said:
Oh....I see. So that's the third way to get smoke in the house.........a leak in the vent pipe (below the ceiling)!!!! That should solve the problem??
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It fixes an issue for sure. I don't know that it explains why it got so hot in the first place.
 
Back in the 80s I had a two car garage where I did all my engine work. I'm not very organized so the floor was always cluttered with tools, parts, sheet metal, weights (for lifting), weight bench, and junk. Against the back wall of the garage I had my Oxy-Acetylene tanks. I was working outside just in front of the garage one day when I heard a loud pop coming from the inside the garage. At first I was puzzled until I heard a pretty loud hissing. After a few seconds I realized that the hissing was coming from my Oxy/Acetylene bottles. I walked toward the garage slowly and tried to focus on the exact location of where the sound was coming from. Didn't know which bottle was the problem until I smelled Acetylene. Now I started to get a little scared because between me and the tanks was a mine field of metal objects that I would have to walk through to get to the leaking tank. The smell was getting stronger and stronger. I had to walk back outside and take a deep breath just to re-enter my garage. I held my breath and slowly and carefully walked through all the metal objects scattered on the floor (without making a spark) to get to the bottles. I managed to get to the Acetylene bottle and carefully shut it off (main shut off valve). It was all I could do to hold my breath long enough to pick my way through all the junk with making a spark and shut off the bottle then scamper back outside to get a breath of air. In the end, the regulator had busted and allowed acetylene to leak (at a high rate) out into the garage. To this day I always shut my tanks off after every use, I never thought that a regulator would bust and relase gas at such a high rate!! I couldn't re-enter the garage for about 20 min. That stuff stinks!!!
 
Seandavid55 said:
It fixes an issue for sure. I don't know that it explains why it got so hot in the first place.
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If you have one of those inexpensive laser temp guns you can shoot the vent at different heights to ease your worries??? The laser temp gun can also be used for many other things relative to heating and cooling. I use mine to check wall, ceiling and door temps and even engine/radiator/exhaust manifold temps
 
Treblig said:
If you have one of those inexpensive laser temp guns you can shoot the vent at different heights to ease your worries??? The laser temp gun can also be used for many other things relative to heating and cooling. I use mine to check wall, ceiling and door temps and even engine/radiator/exhaust manifold temps
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I use mine to mess with the cat
 
Treblig said:
If you have one of those inexpensive laser temp guns you can shoot the vent at different heights to ease your worries??? The laser temp gun can also be used for many other things relative to heating and cooling. I use mine to check wall, ceiling and door temps and even engine/radiator/exhaust manifold temps
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I did just that. It all seems to be working. And Temps were not out of line. Even compared the numbers with a buddy who has a similar stove
 
I'm a "trouble shooter" type of guy. If it was me I get some of that "foil tape" and stick a small piece to the vent (near the most heat) and see what happens. All this on a cold day when the heater is running (during the day when you can watch it). If it burns and smokes your problem should be absolutely solved so you can sleep at night. I know that I wouldn't sleep well at night if I didn't know what caused the problem. If your happy with what you have already found then the case is closed???
 
Seandavid55 said:
I had a scare with the pellet stove the other night. Woke up to smoke filling the basement and main floor. Still haven't figured out what happened. Seems to be working just fine now but I'm having trust issues.
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Curious as to what brand stove you have. This always mak.e nervous.
 
Seandavid55 said:
Pelpro. PP60
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Gotcha, I posted that before reading the rest of the comments. I have two pellet stoves . A harman and a cheaper englander. The englander makes me nervous as the plets are fed down a chute from an anger above. It needs to go and get another harman.
 
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