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Most instances of noise-induced hearing loss are due to repeated exposure to moderate levels of sound over several decades, not by some instances of very loud sound.

Other sounds seem muffled when you leave a place where there’s loud noise.

You have trouble talking or hearing other people speak over the noise.

Note: dBA = Decibels, A weighted Preventing Harm to a hearingĪ simple method to know potentially damaging sound would be to focus on warning signals that a sound may be harmful to your hearing loss. Serious damage possible in 8 hr exposureĪverage human pain threshold. Likely damage 8 hr expĨ times as loud as 70 dB. Possible damage in 8 h exposure.Ĥ times as loud as 70 dB. The Upper 70s are annoyingly loud to some people.Ģ times as loud as 70 dB.

A noise level chart showing examples of sounds with dB levels ranging from 0 to 180 decibels.Īs a frame of reference, here are the decibel levels of sounds you may encounter in your everyday life. To express levels of sound meaningfully in numbers that are more manageable, a logarithmic scale is used, rather than a linear one. Some people’s ears are more sensitive to loud sounds, The effects of noise on hearing vary among people. However, if you’ve got a lower efficiency furnace, metal pipes are A-OK because the exhaust is much hotter and the water won’t condense.The ear has the remarkable ability to handle an enormous range of sound levels. If you’ve got metal pipes coming out of your high-efficiency gas furnace, it’s only a matter of time until this happens. This forms a corrosive exhaust that will, given some time, eat holes in your metal venting pipes, as seen in the photo above. The H2O in the exhaust mixes with CO2 in the exhaust and creates Carbonic Acid, H2CO3. There is also a good amount of water vapor in the exhaust. That’s the little PVC pipe coming out of our system in the photos.

During this process, the water vapor condenses and has to be drained out of the furnace. This is good because you don’t like sending warm air out of your house as exhaust. I learned that high efficiency gas furnaces use two heat exchangers to suck as much heat out of the exhaust as is possible and send that heat directly into your home. This causes a nasty situation in your metal exhaust pipes.

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Don’t do this if you just want to wing it.Ĭarbon Dioxide plus Water vapor yields Carbonic Acid.

I also used a power drill/driver and a good amount of thinking and instruction reading. I used PVC, so you’ll need to be able to cut the pipe and use the propert solvents to cement the pipe and joints together.

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This job cost me $85, while a professional gave me an estimate of $585. Having said all that, here’s how I replaced my vent flue after one of those professionals did something stupid in my house, putting my system and my family at risk. As with any profession, there are many things about your system that aren’t exactly self explantory or intuitive. HVAC professionals are, in most cases, the best people to tinker with anything in your HVAC system. The job itself isn’t very complicated, but doing it incorrectly could lead to some serious problems for you, your home, and your family. Disclaimer: If you’re considering doing this type of job yourself, you should be aware of the dangers involved.

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