I dropped a bottle of HG sticky label remover onto the kitchen tiles, unfortunately the neck of the bottle snapped off. If I'd thought the plastic bottle was *that* brittle I'd have attempted to catch it.
I mopped it up with a couple of gammy old towels kept for such tasks, and left the back door open all day, but the solvent smell is still overpowering throughout the house ...
Just light a match :)
There's not even an "inflammable" label on the bottle. That's not surprising as according to the label
That's right, the MSDS says it's greater than 90% by weight CAS number
918-481-9, which flashes above 55°C ... really sickly sweet smelling version of white spirits.
Vent the house, with a box fan ?
If you're a home owner, you should have a box fan, for "burnt dinner" incidents and other stuff. You can cut the burnt toast residue by about 50%, using the box fan to vent some of the smoke.
I have an adapter I made, to fit the box fan to a particular screened window, for a tighter fit. It's not very good, but I tried.
The box fans are around 20 inches on edge and square. They have a three speed rotary switch on top, and you only run them on high. If you run at lowest speed, it accelerated the demise of the (cheep) motor. The box fan has poor balance so vibrates quite a bit. This is why you only use that (high volume) sucker when you have to. More refined table fans, don't have quite the air mover capability but they manage to balance the blade at the factory a bit better. Box fans are also popular, a lot of stores sell them, whereas finding a quality/refined table fan is an adventure.
I have a particular stand for the box fan, so it aligns with the window opening I use with it. You can tell from the level of preparedness that I've used this more than once. I'm an expert at burning toast. If you need to know how to burn toast, I have a recipe for that.
The box fan works best, blowing air into the house. You open a window on the other end of the house, for the exhaust route. The box fan must fit tight to the (intake) window, so all the power is used to move air into the house for you. Attention to detail, improves vent speed. You get 20% more air, with a tight fit.
Rooms not on the direct air path, vent poorly unfortunately. It helps if you closed doors immediately, to control vapour collection in rooms that would (later) be hard to vent. There can still be a smell in those rooms later on.
Paul
Box fans are fairly rare over here, I just checked costco and even they don't stock them. I have a deskfan, there wasn't a gale blowing through the house yesterday with the back door open ... not been in the kitchen yet today, going to try white vinegar and/or sodium bicarb today.
i.e. amazon.com with a USA zipcode shows me hundreds of them, but amazon.co.uk shows me two, one of which is no longer available.
Just wait till you spill some central heating oil...
Floor fans are fairly similar if not actually the same thing , Machine Mart and Toolstation have some, Screwfix appear to only have one this time of year. They had more back in the. Spring/ Summer.
Lots of businesses get them in to keep staff cool and then store them away . Any you know that may have one you can borrow.?
GH
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