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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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That my DP is going to kill us off.

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FedUpOfLighteningCrotch · 16/02/2022 11:47

We’re moving house and I’m 8 months pregnant so he’s been doing the majority of the work; but he’s gone and hoovered something up he shouldn’t have as when he turned the hoover on this morning a really strong chemical smell came out that start burning my nose and throat. I did ask him what he’s hoovered and he said nothing unusual! But now my chest hurts (could be me overthinking it though) and he’s opened the windows in the house.. and he was sheepishly washing the filter in hot soapy water 5 minutes after I asked him what the smells was and that it was burning my nose/throat.. he still denies hoovering anything that could have created the smell, but he was scrubbing the bathroom yesterday with all sorts of cleaners despite me telling him not to mix them and to use them sparingly as the whole house spelt of bleach at one point I thought it was going to spontaneously combust at one point
I’m very grateful for him doing all the heavy/dirty work however.

AIBU to not want him to make headlines for accidentally killing off the whole family with a mixture of chemicals?

Ps. I am never moving house again.

OP posts:

Penvelopey · 16/02/2022 12:07

Seriously be careful with the chemicals

FiftyStoriesHigh · 16/02/2022 12:09

Sounds like he could’ve created chlorine gas. I did it once, think I was using baking powder and bleach or something. It’s really poisonous.

TheDangerOfIgnorance · 16/02/2022 12:11

years ago my ex dh did the same - lethal to let them near home chemistry aparatus

ElvisPresleyHadABaby · 16/02/2022 12:11

That does not sound good.

SeaToSki · 16/02/2022 12:29

If you are 8 months pregnant and may have breathed in a chemical that makes your chest burn, I would be checking with your midwife and/or a poison advisory place (I dont know if there is a central helpline in the UK like there is in the US)

HopefulProcrastinator · 16/02/2022 12:31

@FiftyStoriesHigh

Sounds like he could’ve created chlorine gas. I did it once, think I was using baking powder and bleach or something. It’s really poisonous.

I agree. Chlorine gas is scarily easy to create using bleach and other household cleaners.

Ask him if there's even a tiny chance if he mixed bleach with something else when cleaning because if he has you need to check with the midwife just in case - especially as your throat and chest felt like they were burning.

doublemonkey · 16/02/2022 12:37

What a knob for not telling you what he'd hoovered up.

No pun intended but he needs to come clean!

Handsoffmy · 16/02/2022 12:39

Ammonia mixed with bleach makes chlorine gas which is deadly. You can easily mix the two without realising

Frlrlrubert · 16/02/2022 12:40

You need to have the 'I promise not to be mad, but you need to tell the truth' conversation.

SIL ended up in A&E mixing chemicals to clean her bathroom last time she moved house.

Penvelopey · 16/02/2022 12:40

I'd speak to the midwife

godmum56 · 16/02/2022 12:45

@Frlrlrubert

You need to have the 'I promise not to be mad, but you need to tell the truth' conversation.

SIL ended up in A&E mixing chemicals to clean her bathroom last time she moved house.

this

TatianaBis · 16/02/2022 12:48

This isn't funny it's just negligent.

A friend of my mum's ended up in hospital after her DH mixed chemical cleaners.

Ponoka7 · 16/02/2022 12:52

I agree with what's been said. He also needs to understand how fragile newborns are, so he doesn't do it with a child under 3 in the house.

Bergamotte · 16/02/2022 12:52

Good that he has cleaned the filter, but do try to speak to your midwife just to be safe.

He might not have exactly mixed the chemicals- might have just hoovered up something with bleach residue on it, then separately hoovered up a different cleaner, and they've mixed together inside the hoover.
Or he has hoovered up just one type of cleaner but the air going through the hoover sort of vapourises it so that it can really bother your throat / lungs!

saleorbouy · 16/02/2022 12:54

Had a friend do this at work with soda crystals and then putting drain unblocker down some time later. Great special effects from the drain system with cloud of misty gas but we had to leave the building for a few hours.
Took a while for him to live that on down with the jokes that ensued.
I would find out what he mixed and possibly contact the HV.

Aquamarine1029 · 16/02/2022 12:56

Your idiot dp needs to tell the truth right now about what he's done. He could have poisoned you and you're pregnant FFS. I'd be calling your midwife ASAP.

dworky · 16/02/2022 13:04

Unless there was something caught in the hoover brush which then burned through the rubber belt. That smells strongly chemical.

FelicityPike · 16/02/2022 13:09

I would also speak to a midwife too. Just to be on the safe side. DH needs to tell you which chemicals/ products though.

Winday · 16/02/2022 13:12

I've accidentally mixed cleaners before, it's bloody dangerous. Clearly it was an accident he made, but he needs to stop ignoring you now, and tell you what he mixed. That's the part that would annoy me, that he won't tell you.

Mollysocks · 16/02/2022 13:13

Please be careful with chemicals. I stupidly cleaned a bathroom with flash bleach cleaner and viakal once and think I made some some sort of chlorine gas, as I couldn’t breathe and felt awful for ages after. I had to evacuate the bathroom and keep fan on rest of the day before I could go back in.
That burnt my nose and throat.

formalineadeline · 16/02/2022 13:14

Well he actually could kill you all doing that so I'm not sure where the funny part is.

CustardySergeant · 16/02/2022 13:17

@formalineadeline

Well he actually could kill you all doing that so I'm not sure where the funny part is.

Exactly. People need to educate themselves on the potential dangers of mixing chemicals. It can be fatal.

BringBackCoffeeCreams · 16/02/2022 13:17

Vinegar makes chlorine gas when mixed with bleach. As does cola. It's very easy to make by accident and very deadly. You need to get checked out OP.

BuddhaForMary · 16/02/2022 13:20

@dworky

Unless there was something caught in the hoover brush which then burned through the rubber belt. That smells strongly chemical.

I was thinking this too. I burnt my Hoover belt and the smell was awful, eyes and throat burning.

But I'm with everyone else, get this checked out with the midwife and yeah he needs to have a proper honest conversation about what he actually did.

Frlrlrubert · 16/02/2022 13:20

Also, if he has managed to make chlorine gas and it's damaged your airways it's not a temporary thing, you won't be 'better' in a couple of hours, though you might feel ok, if you go into labour anytime soon and need medical intervention it might be something they need to know?

Probably overkill, but the COSHH risk assessments for using chemicals that produce chlorine gas involve fume cupboards and immediate medical intervention if inhaled whether or not you 'feel ill'.

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