What Preps are you doing this week

[KalPrep]

Be careful quieting DM as your source, some don't hold them in high regard when it comes to 'factual reporting'

[tfish]

I knew some joker would pop up with this. Google it theres loads of other options showing the same report, the DM just happens to be at the top.

*sigh*

[itsybitsy]

I knew some joker would pop up with this. Google it theres loads of other options showing the same report, the DM just happens to be at the top.

*sigh*

Then perhaps you should have looked further than the Daily Mail for a credible source of information.

[tfish]

Why? Someone getting a lightbulb above their head when they see a dailymail link dosnt effect my informative post in any way.

Please expand

[tfish]

http://www.comfortplusproducts.co.uk/ne ... stoves.php

itsy, kal FYI

Source from the telegraph, hope this is acceptable.

[TomW]

Is there a potential risk, the report gets as far as a maybe, I agree. Is it something to worry about, I'll take my chances

[the-gnole]

So do many other things

Carpets

http://www.wddty.com/carpet-the-chemica ... rfoot.html

Carpets are a major source of toxic chemicals in the home, typically containing well over 100 chemicals in its fibre-bonding material, dyes, backing glues, fire retardant, latex binder, fungicide, and antistatic and stain-resistant treatments. These can ‘outgas’ for weeks—even years—after installation. Formaldehyde, toluene, xylene, styrene, benzene, 4-phenylcyclohexene and methyl-benzene—known as ‘volatile organic compounds’ (VOCs)—are just a few of the nasties that may be lurking beneath your feet and in the air around you.

But I won't stop using them.

Most things can cause cancer, if you are genetically prone to such things, I am sure your google fu will help you find that too much of a good thing is likely to be bad, but as they say C'est la Vie

[tfish]

Is there a potential risk, the report gets as far as a maybe, I agree. Is it something to worry about, I'll take my chances

Prof Steffen Loft, of the Department of Public Helath at Copenhagen University, said "The particles that come from wood smoke can certainly cause fatal heart or lung disease.


What hit home with me was the fact all crop fields that surrounded the villages with homes using wood burners were "contaminated" by the particals which then enter the food change at that level.

As said in first instance, i am not about to stop sitting by the fire but the wood burner isnt the dream ticket to home heating when it comes to health.

Back to the thread though (the mods have already bared their teeth)

[KalPrep]

Can we split this part of the discussion off to keep the original thread clean?

Off topic, nowadays everything is bloody bad for you and there are academics a dime a dozen who will tell you we are all going to die from the fluff in our pockets someday.

Did you know 8 people one year in the UK were admitted to A&E with serious head injuries from hitting their heads on the toilet bowl whilst vomiting? Bloody dangerous those toilets

[the-gnole]

Hopefully this will be split as there may be some useful info in here before long.

What hit home with me was the fact all crop fields that surrounded the villages with homes using wood burners were "contaminated" by the particals which then enter the food change at that level.

Anything that grows in fields or anywhere is going to be "contaminated" with something, Salt is washed off roads in the winter along with rubber from tyres, asbestos from brake pads, oil, fuel, grease, soot from solid fuel power stations, also Mercury, Cyanide, Uranium, Thorium. After all, what goes up, must come down.

All of it ends up in the food cycle one way or another.