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- Subject: Re: Propane leak detector
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!cdthq!gary
- From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
- Message-ID: <4LaFwB1w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
- References: <6191@naucse.cse.nau.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 22:06:50 CST
- Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers
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- rrw@naucse.cse.nau.edu (Bob Wier) writes:
- [ about propane leak detectors ]
-
- > I looked in some of the instrumentation catalogs
- > here and the price is BREATHTAKING. We are talking
- > maybe a kilobuck - this is in the Davis
- > instrumentation catalog.
-
- Check with RV, "manufactured home", and boat dealers. The first two
- are major users of LP and propane, and can probably refer you to
- some less expensive sources. I think some boats, notably house
- boats, use some LP/propane, and may have some that will detect
- gasoline vapor as well (fire on boats is a *major* paranoia).
-
- Have you looked into digging a trench from your basement to the
- outside, and putting a door into the basement wall? No idea if
- your yard slopes that much, or if you have room for that, but
- it seems there should be *some* way to put a floor-level vent
- in that would satisfy the code requirements. Even if you call the
- vent a basement entrance....
-
- (I hate knee-jerk building codes; they're usually idiotic....)
-
- Gary Heston, at home....
- gary@cdthq.uucp
-