Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: request to post the following about fire elements in cohousing developments

[Elizabeth Magill (pastorlizm]

I believe when I looked it up wood pellets produce about 4% of the
particulate matter as a fireplace. I've seen references to fireplace
particulates being about equivalent to second hand cigarette smoke.
Wood stoves and pellet stoves both are much more efficient in their
burning than fireplaces and so produce much less particulates, athough
pellets are more efficient than wood stoves.

A fireplace is not a heat source. You will lose heat as it is draw out
of the room.

I am quite allergic to wood particulates (and to the mold that grows
in the firewood, as well). Because of that Mosaic put in a gas
fireplace. I like having it, but we've had to make a cover for the
fireplace when its not in use in the winter because it makes the room
so cold.

Personally it is my view that my allergies don't make it so that
individual homeowners cannot have heat methods that produce
particulates...and thus they can have stoves if they want them. I
certainly can tell when they are using them, and if I am already sick
I wouldn't visit people who have wood stoves (which includes my
parents and brother who both heat with wood stoves).

(I also am allergic to plants that produce pollen, which is,
essentially, all of them. I just don't think that is a problem that
can be solved. I also can't visit friends who have cats.)

Liz
Mosaic commons
Berlin, MA


On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:12 PM, David Heimann <heimann [at] theworld.com> 
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> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 14:51:10 -0500 (EST)
> From: JOAN OLECK <joanoleck [at] optimum.net>
> To: cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: [C-L]_ request to post the following about fire elements in
>         cohousing developments
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> Hello Joan,
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>         Woodn't (pun intended) the person allergic to wood be also allergic
> to wood pellets (which after all is wood)?
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> Regards,
> David Heimann
> JP Cohousing
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> Dear Cohousers:
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> I'm part of a cohousing community, Village Hill, being developed in
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> Northampton, MA. We're doing some research on fire elements, as one of
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> community members, is seriously allergic to wood particulates.
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> If woodstoves are not allowed, are stoves with eco friendly fuels
> (pellets)
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> allowed as an alternate?
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-- 
-Liz
(The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
Minister to the Affiliates, Ecclesia Ministries
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