Method I have doubts about Charcoal method

[aliceliddel]

I have a big room and dont wanna die inside the bathroom. How mutch charcoal i will need? I really have a lot of doubts becausei this method can let in me permanent sequels, soo i want do it right. My room mesures are 3x3m large, and 2m high.

 

[aliceliddel]

Someone?

 

[FrankieMay]

I don't think doing it in a house is a good idea since toy could harm others. You would also need quite a lot of charcoal too I think. Im no expert though

Maybe check out the carbon monoxide mega thread for more support

 

[Deleted member 1768]

That is a very large room to fill with CO. If there is a way to narrow down the space you might have a better chance. You must look carefully into the type of charcoal you get too. Much of it is made from low-yield CO products, and will not work in any size of space. Please do a whack load of research before committing to this method. Have you checked out the resource section? Pretty good info. there.

 

[not_a_robot]

People have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in large rooms, but only by accident due to faulty heaters.

 

[PBis]

What Poof said. But - during a test run i did some years ago, I got a reading of over 800 ppm with approx. 4 kgs of smouldering (good quality) charcoal in a 2,7 x 3,4 x 3 m room - so it sounds possible to me. Best thing would be to get a CO monitor which measures up to 1000 ppm (mine was 200 euros) and do a test to see if you can achieve a deadly concentration for a period of 3-4 hours. 800 ppm should kill you within that amount of time.

Mind you I am a little suspicious that even "professional" CO monitors may have some kind of safety margin built in...

 

[lettherightonein]

I think you should really find a small room. It should be much easier to reach the lethal amount.

Also, if you try it, please make sure you are alone in the house.

 

[Deleted member 1768]

What Poof said. But - during a test run i did some years ago, I got a reading of over 800 ppm with approx. 4 kgs of smouldering (good quality) charcoal in a 2,7 x 3,4 x 3 m room - so it sounds possible to me. Best thing would be to get a CO monitor which measures up to 1000 ppm (mine was 200 euros) and do a test to see if you can achieve a deadly concentration for a period of 3-4 hours. 800 ppm should kill you within that amount of time.

Mind you I am a little suspicious that even "professional" CO monitors may have some kind of safety margin built in...

There is a chart on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide_poisoning
It shows different levels of ppm (parts/million) and there health effects.

 

[Yaalya]

so you room is 18 m3. i woould use 200g+ per m3 for a high concentration of CO. for my last test i used like 160g per m3 and reached 2000ppm after 12min in my 12m3 room... i used briquettes and normal charcoal. (m3 = qubic meter)
for more informations use the search funktion. in this forum are a lot threads of CO. also visite the both 8chan threads.