we are getting new hardwood flooring and we have ripped out the top layer of the subfloor. i've been told not to burn the press/particle board subfloor bec it is toxic bec it has glue in it. how toxic? is it always toxic even if it's old? what would happen if i did? Won't they just burn it at the dump?
2007-07-22 23:31:04 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
There are two problems with burning the manufactured board. One is the fumes which can be wicked and cause some serious health issues to anyone who is sensitive if burned outside and to anyone at all if burned inside. The other problem is excessive heat; I had a friend of mine throw some into a wood burning stove once to get rid of it and it almost melted the stove and bubbled the paint on the walls around it. Apparently the glue makes a hotter fire than regular wood. As for the dump, they don't generally burn things but just bury them to decompose. Some dumps recycle wood products so that they can be used again to make more press or particle board, or so I've heard anyway.
2007-07-23 00:50:40 · answer #1 · answered by wolfatrest2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My friends say that is OK to burn particle board, at least if its in a red hot fire like inside a wood stove. It burns down to ashes like everything else. It burns very hot. When something burns red hot, all the molecules are broken down into nothing. Why be a bunch of bawl babies who can t handle the concept of something getting burnt to a cinder. A woodstove keeps your house warm on scrap wood, without burning up more valuable resources like natural gas. Worry more about treated wood, because it contains copper-containing chemicals that are said to outlive the fire. See if you live near a waste-to-energy garbage incinerator. Take all your trash there, and then you are saving the environment. There is one in Salem Oregon. There should be one in every single USA city.
If that guy s daughter would not breathe in smoke from the open fire, she would not go into cardiac arrest.
2016-12-14 05:57:00 · answer #2 · answered by Norm 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My daughter is an asthmatic, she walked through smoke from a burning fire and, they were burning building material, including particle board from a floor.
She went into arrest from the smoke. Had to be rushed to the nearest hospital. The building materials contained things like glue, stabilizers and waterproofing materials. All of it was unsafe to breathe.
In the first place it's against the law to burn materials like this, most towns and cities have "dry dumps" for this. The EPA has been warning people for years about global warming and here you are burning all this stuff, for better words.
How about the people that are allergic to smoke from all this? it goes a long way, maybe the next town, and I wonder why I have to rush my daughter to a hospital and hope she's going to make it.
Does all this answer your question?
2007-07-22 23:48:59 · answer #3 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I am sure that it has been burnt before, but there are chemicals and the glue that are not safe to be inhaled. Some shelving manufacturers use formaldehyde to make them. They just get buried at the dump, they don't burn anything out there. I don't think that it would kill you to do it one time, but it is definitely bad for you, whether it is new or not.
2007-07-22 23:46:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋