The Mystery of the Black Spots!

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The Mystery of the Black Spots!

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For some time now we've had these small black, tar like spots appearing on the back of our house. They seem to be increasing in number and frequency now. I've emailed our local Environmental Health Dept to see if they have any other reports of it, but just wondered if anyone else has seen, or been affected by, airborne particulates like this?

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Re: The Mystery of the Black Spots!

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Spider shit? But that's usually lighter. It's that time of year.
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Dirty bastards starting to burn coke in their fireplaces now the weather is turning nippy, fireplaces and chimneys which haven't been cleaned or serviced since the house was built.
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Ian wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 1:43 pm Spider shit? But that's usually lighter. It's that time of year.
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We'd have to have an infestation of any bugs for it to be poo as the whole of the back of the house is smothered and its blown down the drive onto teh front of my camper as well. Its on the back of my single storey extension and there's nothing above it other than sky?
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MrLongbeard wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 1:58 pm Dirty bastards starting to burn coke in their fireplaces now the weather is turning nippy, fireplaces and chimneys which haven't been cleaned or serviced since the house was built.
Its definitely escalated recently, btu we;ve had it throughout the summer too. Originally I did think it was down to a woodburner a couple of doors down but the people there and the woodburner has gone now.

The spots are like tar when you've been through road surfacing?
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Neighbours have any?
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Have you upset a lot of very small pirates recently?
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Horse wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 2:32 pm Neighbours have any?
Yes, but to a much lesser amount?
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If it cleans off with water, it's unlikely to be any tar/oil based deposit. Like dissolves like and all that.

Could be fungal, as suggested, but I'd check out any local industry or small business units to see if they're emitting any nasties in the air. Metal oxides are good at leaving spots on surfaces.

Odd though.
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So the first indication (in the west) that something was afoot in Chernobyl was when Swedish (IIRC) specialists started detecting unexpected weird contamination.

Just sayin'
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Was your house built on an ancient Indian burial ground?
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Re: The Mystery of the Black Spots!

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Skub wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 3:03 pm Artillery fungus?
https://www.thespruce.com/artillery-fun ... on-5185963
Just been googling that, every day's a school day.
It really does look like that.

Better nuke the garden from orbit :thumbup:
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What's it taste like??
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Ian wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 5:31 pm
Skub wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 3:03 pm Artillery fungus?
https://www.thespruce.com/artillery-fun ... on-5185963
Just been googling that, every day's a school day.
It really does look like that.

Better nuke the garden from orbit :thumbup:
Usually followed by a Shoggoth infestation.

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Makes you wonder what goes on behind that double fence the neighbours erected, just saying.
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Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 4:40 pm So the first indication (in the west) that something was afoot in Chernobyl was when Swedish (IIRC) specialists started detecting unexpected weird contamination.

Just sayin'
Aye, bloke coming INTO work at a nuke plant set off the detectors apparently.
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Bigjawa wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 9:10 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 4:40 pm So the first indication (in the west) that something was afoot in Chernobyl was when Swedish (IIRC) specialists started detecting unexpected weird contamination.

Just sayin'
Aye, bloke coming INTO work at a nuke plant set off the detectors apparently.
Hadn't heard that.

Google finds:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/e ... l-disaster

Forsmark: how Sweden alerted the world about the danger of the Chernobyl disaster

The alarm sounded at Forsmark, Sweden's second largest nuclear power plant, when one of the employees passed one of the radiation monitors on his way back from the restroom. When it showed high levels of radiation coming from his shoes, staff at first worried an accident had taken place at the power plant. However, a thorough scan discovered that the real source of the radiation was some 1,100 kilometres away in the Ukrainian town of Chernobyl.
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