Oxygen depletion ??

[jim king]

If a person has a small air tight home and heats it with a wood stove  is there any chance of depleting the oxygen inside the home and waking up dead ??  Is it necessary to have an out side air intake for the stove ??

[doctorb]

We can survive pretty well with a decrease in the percentage of oxygen in the air.  I do not think oxygen depletion is an issue in your hypothetical.  I think carbon monoxide poisoning is much more likely to cause the demise of an occupant of such a dwelling.  So I would be more concerned about the stuff coming out of the stove than the loss of oxygen going into it.

Part of the problem is the verbiage "air tight" home.  If we lived inside a mayonaise jar, we wouldn't need a fire to eventually deplete all the oxygen and die.

[DouginUtah]

If a person has a small air tight home and heats it with a wood stove  is there any chance of depleting the oxygen inside the home and waking up dead ??  Is it necessary to have an out side air intake for the stove ??

Of course. That's how zombies are created.  :D

[Ianab]

Is it necessary to have an out side air intake for the stove ??

Basically yes.

If the rest of the house was totally sealed the fire would stop drawing up the flue very quickly, and just start smoking out the house. Without that air draft it's going to happen quickly, like you aren't even going to get the fire lit properly before you are smoked out.

If there is enough draft to keep the fire burning properly, you will also be OK for O2.

Ian

[thecfarm]

When I was working for the state they were called envelope houses. The air has to change in a house so many times per hour. It's not healthy to have to tight of a home without the air changing.Seems like some on here have put a air outlet,for no better word,by the wood stove. I doubt you would wake up dead.  :D  But feeling run down or not well is very possible.
Global warming getting to you Jim?

[SwampDonkey]

You only use about 4% of the oxygen you take in with every breath. Probably as doc and Ian said, it'll likely be carbon monoxide poisoning that gets you from being smoked out. Those types of homes use air exchangers.

[Tom]

Jim!!

I've got an idea. Change the thought from Oxygen depleting to carbon sequestration and sell "tight home" ideas to meddlesome NGO's as a carbon storage device.  :D

Maybe they will come up with a rea-a-ally tight one and live in it to show us how it's done.  ;D

[jim king]

Global warming getting to you Jim?

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