I know that there’s a good argument against vented crawl spaces, maybe this is a good argument for them…
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/01/15/house.explodes.on.tape.wxii
I know that there’s a good argument against vented crawl spaces, maybe this is a good argument for them…
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/01/15/house.explodes.on.tape.wxii
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What I want to know is why did they build it on tape? Shouldn't it be on a more solid foundation?
So the pieces wouldn't fly so far????
Assuming it was a nat gas leak in the crawl, I doubt if venting would have made much of a difference.
I'd be more worried about a fire guy who suspects "back-drafting of smoke" into the crawl space.
So far as I know - smoke doesn't explode.
"Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
Smoke certainly can explode. But the picture to me looked like a gas or vapor explosion in a basement, not a crawl.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. -John Kenneth Galbraith
"So far as I know - smoke doesn't explode."Define SMOKE?While "SMOKE" like not explode it is usually accompanied by combustible gases.Seen it in my fire place all the time.http://www.firetactics.com/service.htmhttp://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/printer.jsp?id=48583
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William the Geezer, the sequel to Billy the Kid - Shoe
Wow!
"Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Thurman
boy... ya really gotta watch those casual statements.....
someone will hand you your head on a platter everytimeMike Hussein Smith Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore
If there were no vents then how did the smoke get in there?