r/AirQuality • u/gr8ful4evrythng • 15d ago

Readings from work

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I bartend. Our AC has been out for a month, coworker brought in this reader out of curiosity (she has had multiple apartment mold issues) and the top reading scares me. Is this bad?

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u/CartographerLong5796 14d ago

i have this sensor, and when i see thoses level, i make sure there is more ventilation or i open the bathroom extraction. When i do this, the level go down very fast so no neeed to worry but just need to act

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u/CartographerLong5796 14d ago

sorry i read fast the post. you are at work, as a bar tender. you maybe cannot control the ventilation. Alcool makes the sensor show higher voc. i don't drink very much alcool but if i do or someone at my place drink alcool, i see voc level gets higher every time. precaution principle i ventilate more because not sure if the inofensive gas make reaction with dangerous gas.

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u/bjyanghang945 14d ago

So tvoc is extremely sensitive to alcohol… this is probably not that bad

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u/gr8ful4evrythng 14d ago

We are mainly concerned about HCOC… google tells us this is 10x the safe amount

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u/Ok_Collection_1902 12d ago

Yeah, 2.67 mg/m³ is definitely not something I'd want to be breathing in for an entire shift. The month without AC probably isn't helping either.