Do you live in a pressure cooker OSB, Particle Board, Hardboard, Causing poison fumes in our homes

Many new homes have major indoor pollution caused by the wood building products that outgas. OSB and Hardboard can contain over six percent of phenol formaldehyde, glues, and binders that outgas poisonous fumes into our homes. Particle board, press wood, paneling, and other wood products additionally have urea formaldehyde also know as cow urine that also outgases into our homes.

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Education

Tags:

• Phenol
• formaldehyde
• urea
• cow
• unrine
• piss
• glue
• binder
• binders
• varnish
• stain
• OSB
• Press
• Wood
• partial
• board
• Hardboard
• Plywood
• Veneer
• Outgases
• outgas
• IAQ

[drej1]

I knew I should have stayed in my old house attached to the barn, the smell of farm animals couldn't be as toxic as my new home!

[grodenbarg]

AHHH, that new home smell. :% (Blaah)

[lrd9999]

@ootsam I remember seeing a return duct like that in a neighbor's house when I was a kid. These houses were built in the 1950s and about half had FHA. It was a mess, just studs and some boards here and there. It seemed like a fire hazard and probably wasn't too efficient either. If they were too cheap to use steel ducting, they should at least have plastered the inside of the passageway. I've seen some older houses that just pulled the air from the basement.

[FloormanofAlabama]

pronounced "INTER" "STIUAL" "depressurization" yes if you look at your baseboard,

where the line is at your carpet, thats what you see, in NEW HOMES

NOT OLD HOMES as much, NEW, the home is

breathing at the PLATE, sucking and pushing that gas

thats what keeps GE and Whirlpool the cancer centers of america in business,

SO lets see, TICKER LP keeps GE and WHIR all together,

not to mention DNDN and a hundred more bios, makes the vaccine

INTERESTING video capt

[ootsam]

what kind of hack uses the joist cavity for return air? NOt in CA. Most of the sheet goods sold here in ca adhere to strict limitations on formaldehyde and the glues are low voc. How many contractors will be sued because of fear mongering? Your concerns are legit, but you do little to offer a solution. Are you a licensed contractor? What are your credentials?

[meerlyb]

Great video, thanks!

[lendmeurears]

But particle board is good for the environment. Instead of chopping down matured trees we substitute them with particle board out of young trees or waste wood. So everything is double sided :-) Although there is some toxic fumes from the particle boards, they are generally negligible. My computer table is made out of particle board and I spend almost all day at home on my computer. It has been 6 years and im still ok :)