all about the north end of my kitchen

Today we fiddled with the house pressurizer and the nearby closet that currently houses the dryer and has room for the washing machine. Thus we learned that:

• The shelf supports we left in the closet when we took out some shelves are leaking formaldehyde something fierce.
• I've developed a sensitivity to redwood, so we had to wrap the box under the house pressurizer with Tu Tuff.
• The pressurizer box looks all color coordinated with the new door to the dryer closet.

• This is key: the plastic across the dryer closet opening is blown tight because we failed to account for the fact that dryer vents are never actually closed: air goes in the back of the machine, into the drum, down through the lint trap, and out into the great outdoors.
• Once we sealed off the dryer closet, besides not having trouble with formaldehyde anymore, when we turned on the house pressurizer, it made my ears pop.

All we need to do now is take care of the formaldehyde-y wall parts and build fairly airtight boxes for the dryer and washer, which will then be allowed inside. Then we can continue our attempts to park the car in the attached garage without gassing anybody, and stay tuned because this kind of thing is likely to involve an airlock, and I can't wait to see how that turns out.

Also, researchers have extended the five-second rule to 30 or 60 seconds, depending on the goopiness of the food you dropped, but they only measured bacteria levels, not disinfectant chemicals, so yuck anyway.