Cigarette Smoke Detectors

[spartan]

Hi all,

I have a concern in one of the office building I work in regarding smoke leaching in through seals in the windows from an outside smoking deck.

What I'm looking for is a source of a battery operated cigarette smoke detector.....

Anyone know where I can get one - I don't want to pinch one from Qantas....

[echnidna]

buy a fan

[spartan]

wish it was that simple....

employees...including me say we can smell smoke....Company says no you can't!

[munruben]

What I'm looking for is a source of a battery operated cigarette smoke detector.....

Anyone know where I can get one - I don't want to pinch one from Qantas....

Option 1. short trip on Virgin Blue. Don't know how you are going to smuggle a screw driver on board though.

Option 2. Seal the windows.
Option 3. Change jobs.
Option 4. Take up smoking.

Maybe someone will come up with a better idea. Good luck.

[DJ’s Timber]

Give these guys a try, they are smoke detection specialists and should have something that is suitable

[patty]

Mate never heard of a smoke setector just or ciggies but you can get two types of domestic smoke detectors now I'm talking about the 240v type here first type is Inoisation where the Detector has an ionisation chamber inside where by it keeps air levels (Whatever the levels are) at a Balance when the smoke gets trapped inside this chamber this activates the alarm
the second type is a photo-elect type where ...I think it actually looks for the smoke through some type of lens once the smoke passes the lens the alarm is activated but( I could be wrong with the operation on this one) but if you take a normal battery operated smoke detector and try it and it does not work I dont know what else you could try

[rrich]

Perhaps you could ask the local government agency that enforces the smoke free laws where to get one. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they responded with a puffed up chest saying. "That's our job! How can we help you?"

[Iain]

Re patty's post, Aldi had both types in stock a while ago, I bought the photo dretcor model for a hallway near our kitchen which goes off every time the oven door is opened, I couldn't see the smoke but it could.
The new one works a treat and doesn't trigger.

[Ashore]

If your working with people who smoke then you will smell cigaretts the smell is on their clother in their persperation, getting a smoke detector and trying to detect a smell ? for that you don't need a smoke/particle detector you need something you already have a nose .
If you are offended by the smell of your work mates you must have real problems when you step out on the street with all those cars busses etc , perhaps some of munruban's options are the answer

[echnidna]

what is the smoke detector actually gunna do?

[ptc]

Open the widow.
Smoker.

[m2c1Iw]

If your working with people who smoke then you will smell cigaretts the smell is on their clother in their persperation, getting a smoke detector and trying to detect a smell ? for that you don't need a smoke/particle detector you need something you already have a nose .
If you are offended by the smell of your work mates you must have real problems when you step out on the street with all those cars busses etc , perhaps some of munruban's options are the answer

Yeah, leave the poor smokers alone we have been discriminated against, banned, looked down upon and generally abused not to mention exiled to outdoors. I say its time to stand up and be counted what is proposed here is harrassment and not to be condoned but condemned.
Rant over

[spartan]

The OH&S people when they initially investigated said you are smelling smoke on smokers who have come inside...

Well no one in that area smokes at all. We have had people totally unaware of the issue come to the area and complain of smoke smells.

We are talking about a smoking area that gas about 20 people in it at times, its when this area fills that smoke is smelt inside the building.

[patty]

Are there any outside vents on the deck external wall that is adjacent to your work area? If not get some petty cash and go and buy an Airwick plug in smeller as a smoke detector is not going to do a thing here.. I think if anything to get an absolute satisfation you would have to get an Indoor air quality meter or a co2 meter they are about $1200 bucks through a company called Farnell

[echnidna]

or burn some incense so you can't smell anything else