Weiss, Effikal's director of engineering, had attended a carbon monoxide (CO) panel discussion in late 2004 at the ISH North America convention in Boston. He remembered hearing one of the panelists, Jim Davis of the National Comfort Institute (NCI), speak on the problems of incomplete combustion and its direct impact on raised levels of indoor CO.
"I was aware that Liz was having issues with her boiler installation," he said. "I became the initiator, sharing the information I got from the panel discussion."