Quote Originally Posted by niftyshaving View Post
Congratulations... on the "all-clear from the doctor"!!!!!!
Thanks!

How old is the first child? ... I ask because it may be
well past time to childproof the shave den and kitchen.
My kitchen knives would worry me with small children.
Also child-improve the smoking den. Tobacco smoke is
not something that you want your children to be breathing.
At least not to the degree I was subjected to growing up.
She's 7 and has been pretty good about the shave den and the kitchen. The shave den is well out of reach for a young kid. As for the smoking den, it's the balcony of our apartment, so no smoking happens indoors. I won't do that. If/when we eventually move into a bigger place or buy a house, I would have a dedicated "Man Cave" where I would look into very good ventilation/filtration of the smoke. My smoking is only an occasional thing, at most one bowl per day, but I often skip days.

Do check out some of the radon vent solutions. A heat recovery ventilator,
or HRV, also called an air-to-air heat exchanger is a good thing for a lot of
reasons and smoking could be one. Ontario is in the worst of the
radon risk belt so this may be easy hardware to find.
I will look into this.

And yep I have seen too many friends suffer cancer and/or COPD after
decades of smoking or second hand smoke so I do have a bias. I am
also an X-smoker and can look back and say WTF was I thinking.

Again... Congratulations... on the "all-clear from the doctor"!!!!!!
Thanks! I used to smoke cigarettes, but I haven't done that for many years. Pipe smoking is not something I will do all the time, but rather as a sometimes thing.

I appreciate the advice and the well wishes.