Ottawa: What Fresh Air?

[dewline]

Yeah, so I truncated my morning walk today. Usually, I'd try to take a longer route to get to my newspaper/grocery-shopping in the morning, but the smoke is still in force here in Ottawa-Gatineau.

We have a working air conditioner, and also two air purifiers working in specific rooms in the house for various reasons. The newest of the purifiers was thanks to cumulative effort re: Air Miles reward points. I need to find where I can buy replacement filters for this one, and probably soon.

Comments

[mellowtigger]

I've run my Corsi-Rosenthal box in my bedroom for a solid month now. It's been bad in Minnesota, so I'm sure it must be worse in Canada where the various fires are actually burning. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/06/06/minnesota-air-quality-this-year-is-off-to-its-worst-start-on-record

[armiphlage]

I duct-taped together a Corsi-Rosenthal box last night. My (probably inaccurate) Ikea air quality meter showed it dropped the particle count from 12 to 1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corsi%E2%80%93Rosenthal_Box

[dewline]

I've know about C-R boxes for years now, and have put off doing the needed shopping. That's on me.

[armiphlage]

Maybe tape a spare bedsheet or pillowcase over a fan? Even if it doesn't get the finer particles, keeping the coarse ones out of your lungs might help.

[mellowtigger]

Thanks for posting your numbers. I don't have any way of measuring at my place. It's heartening to see that a DIY solution can make such a dramatic difference. :)

[pilottttt]

We had to experience something similar in 2010, when dry peat bogs were burning in the vicinity of Moscow.