Did not Fl go through this crap years back ?
Especially in the mobile home industry?
Oops.
It’s been in other materials, too. Simply allow most of it to evaporate out before moving in. ...only takes a few weeks to happen well enough.
Formaldehyde can cause irritation of the skin, eyes, nose, and throat. High levels of exposure may cause some types of cancers.
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I’ve heard there is a push on to discontinue using formaldehyde in embalming as it may cause cancer. (sarc)
We used that stuff in labs all the time. I don’t know about this, probably such a minute amount on joists wouldn’t be a big deal unless maybe they caught fire?
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Formaldehyde doesn’t actually cause cancer, but it does cause death if you come in contact with much of it.
It will make men sterile in a fairly short time.
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I’m not saying that it is a good thing, but just to keep heads calm, as a student nurse in the 1960’s I had my hands and arms up to the elbows in vats of formaldehyde. That is where our cats under routine ‘autopsy’ were stored while we were not actively dissecting them. No such thing as gloves on our hands. Gloves were few and far between...mostly used only in operating rooms. I’m 74 years old now. No ill effects. A long and very healthy life. True, I wouldn’t want it smelling up my house. But heck, we used to play with mercury, too. Rolling it in balls around our school desks. The only thing that scares me is what wimps Americans have become.
We’re all going to die anyway, so why not get a head start on the embalming process?
Sounds like a variation on the urea formaldehyde foam insulation issue of the 1980’s. Spraying the foam into wall cavities often resulted in an incomplete mix of the two-part foam resin and hardener which left behind unreacted formaldehyde. Wonder if this was a manufacturing defect of these engineered joists.
I guess it was made in America crap
I would know just driving in the driveway or entering the front door of a new home if there were formaldehyde fumes...I’d depart pretty darn fast and I sure as heck wouldn’t become one of their buyers!
F~ is the component of wood smoke that irritates one’s eyes.
It is natural chemical that people have been exposed to for millenia.
Take that and smoke it. LOL.
Oh, this is so 80s.
Sounds like pre-fab type houses with the cheapest materials possible .... normally 2 X 8s/2 X 10s are used for floor joists and don’t contain formaldehyde.