Fireplace catastrophie
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 12:29 pm
last night, just as we were putting the last two logs on the fire (finally warm after a day of 8 degree F weather), the smoke stopped going up the chimney. It came in the house. We were in the living room wathcing TV and it got worse and worse. we've had the problem sometimes when the wind blows hard, but there was no wind.
The birds are in the room. We quickly moved Camo in his cage to the spare bedroom with the door closed. I got Fats' travel cage and got him into the room too. He did very well with getting into his travel cage.
We worked to put out the fire in the fireplace and openned the doors (BRRRRRR) and ran fans and fanned towels and finally got hte smoke cleared out. We moved the birds back to the normal locations--they were freaked out!
But now the house smells very very bad. Of course, then my boyfriend goes and gets Oust from the bathroom and starts spraying it in the living room... I yelled "Stop!!!!!" He didn't know it was bad for the birds. so after that I'm freaked out that the birds are going to get sick and die from the spray.
I am looking for ways to get the smoke smell out of the house, since openning the place up and airing it out is not an option when it's 19 degrees outside. (Saturday it'll be in the 50's so I might do it then)
I'm going to wash all the fabrics--take the cover off the IKEA couch and wash it, all the sheets in our bedroom are smoky (makes it very hard to sleep). I have to wash all the clothes that were out in the bedroom. I'm going to put out little bowls of vinegar all over the house to absorb odor. I'm going to get some fresh newspapers and scatter them around the house. But the other thing I can do is use baking soda. Is baking soda safe for birds? I can put out dishes of it, but what kind of want to do is sprinkle it on the carpet and vacuum. How do we feel about that strategy?
Fats has a habitf climbing down his cage and wlaking across the floor scavenging the food he's dropped and walking over to us on the couch. If I put baking soda on the floor, is that going to be bad for him or potentially harmful?
The birds are in the room. We quickly moved Camo in his cage to the spare bedroom with the door closed. I got Fats' travel cage and got him into the room too. He did very well with getting into his travel cage.
We worked to put out the fire in the fireplace and openned the doors (BRRRRRR) and ran fans and fanned towels and finally got hte smoke cleared out. We moved the birds back to the normal locations--they were freaked out!
But now the house smells very very bad. Of course, then my boyfriend goes and gets Oust from the bathroom and starts spraying it in the living room... I yelled "Stop!!!!!" He didn't know it was bad for the birds. so after that I'm freaked out that the birds are going to get sick and die from the spray.
I am looking for ways to get the smoke smell out of the house, since openning the place up and airing it out is not an option when it's 19 degrees outside. (Saturday it'll be in the 50's so I might do it then)
I'm going to wash all the fabrics--take the cover off the IKEA couch and wash it, all the sheets in our bedroom are smoky (makes it very hard to sleep). I have to wash all the clothes that were out in the bedroom. I'm going to put out little bowls of vinegar all over the house to absorb odor. I'm going to get some fresh newspapers and scatter them around the house. But the other thing I can do is use baking soda. Is baking soda safe for birds? I can put out dishes of it, but what kind of want to do is sprinkle it on the carpet and vacuum. How do we feel about that strategy?
Fats has a habitf climbing down his cage and wlaking across the floor scavenging the food he's dropped and walking over to us on the couch. If I put baking soda on the floor, is that going to be bad for him or potentially harmful?