Is it safe to run a portable generator on an open, screened porch?

I wouldn't try it. To much risk involved if it's not vented entirely.

If it's an entirely open porch, you could face the exhaust out. The issue is Carbon Monoxide mixes pretty evenly with air and it will find it's way in through any opening.

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If it's an entirely open porch, you could face the exhaust out. The issue is Carbon Monoxide mixes pretty evenly with air and it will find it's way in through any opening.

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If you had to, for a few hours, probably. You could also turn a fan on the generator to help dissipate exhaust fumes, though it will still stink up things and probably find a way into the house.

 

It's really just a lawnmower; if you wouldn't run a lawnmower there, don't run a generator there.

A simple solution for ANYONE running a generator near there home.....Get a good CO detector that runns on batteries. There have been deaths around me from people and generators.

If the porch is all screen it is probably OK as long as there is NO open doors or windows and the porch is not in a corner where it has no airflow.

Be safe

Ken

remove his muffler from the generator. Make an adapter some how that used the existing bolt holes and use black gas pipe. Run up the side of ur house above your roof pine and you sjould be ok. Just an idea