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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Can you explain this Beijing phenomenon?
In the winter my windows and patio door are shut tight with the edges taped with duct tape. No vents are open, yet my air purifier (a huge Phillips unit that does 50 cubic feet per minute) gets totally clogged with the Beijing crud every two weeks. How is this crap getting in? I thought it might be under the front door but I sealed that with a thick felt strip. WTF?
Facile, mon cher ami Monsieur M.
There are many ways for exterior air to get into your apartment that you may have not consider yet. For exampple, when you open your front door to get in or go out of your apartment, or maybe jsut to answer the front door bell when it rings, you create a draft of air that will bring outside air into your unit via :
1.- The gas water heater outside vent for fumes
2.- The over the stove exhaust fan vent
3.- The bathroom exhaust fan
4.- The holes drilled on outside walls to allow A/C "hoses" to come inside your place. Some do have items coming thru, others have nothing, it sits there just being a "hole" about 2 " in diameter or so. Seal it with an empty soda plastic bottle.
5.- ETC !
Il sera probablement plus facile pour vous de nettoyer le filtre purificateur d'air sur une base une fois par semaine pour compléter sceller votre appartement et empêcher l'air extérieur à partir totalement à venir dans.
did you ever think about how you wanna breath if "those stuff" doesnt come in? because if that stuff cant come in, then also no air comes in, which results in you dying. anyways, air comes even through the ceiling, the doors, pipes etc.
Englteachted:
He's just trying to ask a dumb question to get attention away from the fact that he is a CFTU troll
What do you think you're breathing if air doesn't come in?
I am glad to live in the South, warm winter, no heavy smog.
CFTU can assistyouwith that
expatlife26:
And to think this guy actually gave us the "Well if you're too childish to accept me than I'll just see myself out!"
We would never be so lucky.
dongbeiren:
Funny how this spammer monsieur is actually hurting his case. He's turning people like me who used to be on the fence against him.
jetfire9000:
@Dongbeiren - because your support and lack of rush to judgment is just so ever important to him. Trolls don't care about their legitimacy.
dongbeiren:
Right but a clever scammer would make himself less obvious
expatlife26:
I think the whole idea is just to make it look legitimate to somebody who doesn't know better.
Like if you're some guy fresh out of school in the US interested in moving to china, you aren't going to know all the background on the CFTU scam. You're going to read "Joey Zhang: Scammer Recruiter!!!!!!" and maybe not do business with that guy.
That's why I think the active CFTU account will always act like each thread exists in it's own universe. He posts a link or says something to "bash and trash" a school or recruiter, somebody says "fuck off CFTU is obviously a scam" and he accuses that person of being the recruiter he's downing.
It's why we'll have the same arguments over and over, monsieur isn't a person with real thoughts or opinion it's just a mouthpiece to say whatever it takes to make it look two-sided in an individual thread
Convincing us isn't the goal...it's convincing somebody who doesn't understand that what they claim to be isn't real.
I've never seen so much dust accumulate so fast than in Beijing,
On a related note, it's usually completely unnecessary to keep windows open for ventilation, because our rooms are never hermetically sealed. Try convincing locals of this: They prefer to risk pneumonia than suffer a largely imaginary risk of suffocation. Too many ailments get blamed on poor ventilation. Respiratory infection, cancer, asthma, rheumatism? It's because you didn't keep the window open!
Even with the smallest of connections to the outside atmosphere, particle diffusion (both oxygen and dust particles) will homogenise the atmosphere. The more people breathe in a room, the faster the diffusion. The cleaner you keep your apartment, the faster dust particles will migrate into your expat bubble.
this reminds me of my first year here when a fool opened the window on the bus when it was minus 15c outside, i asked him why and he said fresh air, i said very politely "where in the hell is fresh air in the coal burning winter in the 8th dirtiest city in the world for air pollution going to come from"? of course the the dumb deer in the headlights was the response. the good news is we moved from number 8 to number 14, slow progress in jinan.