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Where to put a generator, and why the distance matters
Outside is not enough. Exhaust comes back in through doors and windows — so the planner measures how far.
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A generator indoors is the finding no imported planner will ever give a Nigerian home. Urcrib gives it, and a second one that matters as much: a generator outside but close to an open window is putting its exhaust back into the room it was moved out of.
Outside, and far enough
Place a generator and the planner puts it outside. It then measures from the generator to the nearest opening that leads indoors — the front door, a window — and compares it with the guidance: 6.1 metres.
Where that number comes from
It is the twenty-foot figure published by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and by most generator makers. We found no Nigerian guidance, and we say so rather than invent some. The figure is held in the planner's settings, so it can change without anybody reinstalling anything.
When no spot is far enough
A typical front compound is two or three metres deep. When no position on your ground reaches the distance, the planner does not keep warning about every place you try. It tells you once, about the home: stand it as far out as you can, point the exhaust away, and keep the windows on that side shut while it runs.