landed a flat in Berlin. it’s wonderful. but, it has coal heating. gonna burn 2000kg coal over the winter in 3 ovens. there’s a lot of yellow dust going everywhere when I empty the ceramic ovens from the 1800, and unfortunately I breathe some of the dust myself. anyone else going through this? how bad is it? any measures to take? all advice welcome. I’d change home if I could and I know it can’t be exactly healthy. still wondering tho.



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  4. That depends.. If the oven is in good shape and has good air circulation then there is zero risk for your health. If the chimney is not working properly, you might actually kill yourself. But that would pretty much makes you a contender for the Darwin award.

  5. Get yourself a FFP2 mask and see it changing the colour over time…

  6. Get a luftreiniger and a atemschutzmaske. Also, keep windows closed during opening of furnace, open them afterwards, so the wind don’t blow up the dust
    Also, if your Hoover is suited for sucking in this fine type of dust, use it, otherwise try to find one to clean the oven every couple of refillings

  7. Depends, if the oven and chimney work as intended, no worries.

    But additionally to the smoke detector, please get a carbon monoxide detector!

  8. My mom’s often commenting that she had many lung diseases growing up in eastern Germany. Croup, bronchitis all the time. That stopped when the wall fell and people stopped using coal stoves. Now people are getting their cozy wood burning stoves and the airs starting to stink again.

  10. I’d wear a dust mask when emptying the ovens, and invest in a domestic air purifier. And probably a carbon monoxide detector too.

  11. I still have a furnace, but since I got a heat pump, it hasn’t been running. I wouldn’t have thought that there are still apartments for rent that don’t have a heating system.

  12. Get an air purifier with HEPA and carbon filters.
    I recommend some product from the philips 4000series.
    Double the air volume of your apartment to evaluate the filter performance needed.

  13. How is this Legal? Coal heating is outlawed in most countries

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