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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>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).<BR>
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On 2/26/12 2:23 PM, "Racheli Gai" <<a href="racheli@sonoracohousing.com">racheli@sonoracohousing.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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I remember the baking-out advice (to hasten the process of outgassing) from a while back, but I thought <BR>
that at a certain point it was discarded as being problematic, although I don't remember the reasoning... <BR>
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Best,<BR>
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On Feb 26, 2012, at 11:05 AM, RT wrote:<BR>
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> On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:23:47 -0500, Racheli Gai <<a href="racheli@sonoracohousing.com">racheli@sonoracohousing.com</a>> wrote:<BR>
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>> my son and daughter in law are buying a house that stinks<BR>
>> of recent painting job, new carpets, etc. which they'd like to get rid of.)<BR>
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> 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.<BR>
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> If you Google using something like " cook off VOCs new building" you should find some relevant info WRT specifics and details.<BR>
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