mothball who uses them?
- Thread starter Mad About Cichlids
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Mad About Cichlids;4995594; said:Thanks for responses.
Kinda worrying me now. He's living with us for awhile and I have two kids, 1 1/2 yr old son and 8 yrs old daughter. The mothballs are in his room but smell is seeping through to most of the house. He even left some in one of the hallway closet but we found those and threw it away.
Another major concern is your son being so young, could try and eat one.. or succeed in doing it.. might have to bring it up to him in that manner..
ballinouttacntrol;4995633; said:
Really Eddie, first the potten meat.. now moth balls? Where the **** did you grow up??
HK is probably one place a lot of people use moth balls... when winter rocks around you can smell the moth balls on a lot of the populations clothes from being stored for so many months out of the year...
When I was young we kept them in the attic of our old house to keep the bats out. It seemed to work.
I haven't heard of or seen mothballs in years and years.
As far as the smell, I would have to say they stunk up the house when they were fresh, after a week or so it wasn't bad.
I haven't heard of or seen mothballs in years and years.
As far as the smell, I would have to say they stunk up the house when they were fresh, after a week or so it wasn't bad.
Cedar works well, but after a few months it needs a good sanding, otherwise the initial strong smell of it goes away. Just use a little sand paper on small chunks of cedar blocks and put them in towards the back of my dresser drawers. Makes clothes and stuff smell wonderful!Imo!
I would ban mothballs from you house immediately considering you have young children. The older versions of mothballs contained napthalene, new ones contain 1,4-dichlorobenzene. Both are toxic at higher concentrations and are known carcinogens at low levels with long term exposure. I work as an environmental engineer and may petrochemical sites are contaminated with these chemicals. To give you an idea of how serious these chemicals are: we are required to wear respirators for concentrations of semi-volatile organic compounds (which these are classified) when concentrations reach 10 parts per million. For information on napthalene (OSHA and EPA):
http://www.osha.gov/dts/chemicalsampling/data/CH_255800.html
For 1,4-dichlorobenzene:
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/p-dichlorobenzene/recognition.html
Please note that many air fresheners contain volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds such as isobutane and butane- which we consider contaminants at remediation sites. One study I did while still in college with various air fresheners showed some contain benzene-like compounds (test showed positive for benzene in low levels and ingredient included ethylbenzene and other benzene compounds). The cheaper the freshener the more it contained suspect compounds. If want your house to smell good instead of chemicals, try buying frozen bread and bake- smells great. Or get a food dehydrator and do apples, pears, other fruit in it. Or dry flowers in it- way better and cheaper than spraying chemicals in the air.
http://www.osha.gov/dts/chemicalsampling/data/CH_255800.html
For 1,4-dichlorobenzene:
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/p-dichlorobenzene/recognition.html
Please note that many air fresheners contain volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds such as isobutane and butane- which we consider contaminants at remediation sites. One study I did while still in college with various air fresheners showed some contain benzene-like compounds (test showed positive for benzene in low levels and ingredient included ethylbenzene and other benzene compounds). The cheaper the freshener the more it contained suspect compounds. If want your house to smell good instead of chemicals, try buying frozen bread and bake- smells great. Or get a food dehydrator and do apples, pears, other fruit in it. Or dry flowers in it- way better and cheaper than spraying chemicals in the air.
EEEWWW the smell of those thing are enought to make me gag i hate them and they are just downright disgusting
