[Greenbuilding] A question regarding sealing in VOCs

[marian dombroski]

Jason, Do you know a good source for info on ventilation?  seems like the
game is changing a bit with new materials and methods entering practice.



On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Jason Holstine <jason at amicusgreen.com>wrote:

>  The potential to accelerate the offgassing but not adequately ventilate
> and get the stuff pushed out of the building. So now you’ve made the
> fishbowl a little more...fishbowl. Too many people don’t know how to
> measure ventilation or how to manage it, etc., so it becomes a big
> wildcard.  It also typically needs the building to be unoccupied (unless
> you want to hang out and sleep in 85’something degrees).
>
>
> On 2/26/12 2:23 PM, "Racheli Gai" <racheli at sonoracohousing.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Rob,
> I remember the baking-out  advice (to hasten the process of outgassing)
> from a while back, but I thought
> that at a certain point it was discarded as being problematic, although I
> don't remember the reasoning...
>
> Best,
> Racheli.
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:05 AM, RT wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:23:47 -0500, Racheli Gai <
> racheli at sonoracohousing.com> wrote:
> >
> >> my son and daughter in law are buying a house that stinks
> >> of recent painting job, new carpets, etc. which they'd like to get rid
> of.)
> >
> >
> > Racheli;
> >
> > Rather than add more gunk to the chemical stew of their indoor air
> environment by painting over and sealing stuff, it may be preferable to do
> a "bake-out" to accelerate the off-gassing process -- essentially heating
> the interior to a higher-than-normal temp ( > 35 degC) for > 48 hours while
> simultaneously ventilating the building at a higher-than-normal air-change
> rate.
> >
> > If you Google using something like " cook off VOCs new building" you
> should find some relevant info WRT specifics and details.
> >
> >
>
>
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