Who's got CO detectors

[Photon440]

I had to look it up.

Is CO2 Heavier Than oxygen?
Yes, when compared at the same temperature and pressure pure carbon dioxide is heavier than pure oxygen

This is a thread about CO, not CO2.

 

[QuickBpBp]

This is a thread about CO, not CO2.

I know that and CO2 was brought up by others BEFORE me I simply replied to them.

 

[64BEL]

You don't want to mount a CO detector high by the ceiling. A thermal barrier can form up high that may keep the CO from reaching the detector. I have mine mounted about eye level.

 

[Sahara]

We have them in our house; I won’t go to sleep if we don’t have a working unit. Up here in cold country deaths by C0 poisoning are fairly common. Less so, now that detectors are widely available.
I once worked in a house lived in by an educated, wealthy family. They actually had their detector go off every day, sometimes a few times a day. It had to do with how their wood burning stove vented. They would open windows and let the wood burning stove go out; then start all over again. I could not have slept in that house; what if you slept through the alarm or if it didn’t go off for some reason? They ultimately fixed the problem and lived happily ever after but I thought that they were freaking nuts for playing Russian Roulette like that.

 

[QuickBpBp]

We have them in our house; I won’t go to sleep if we don’t have a working unit. Up here in cold country deaths by C0 poisoning are fairly common. Less so, now that detectors are widely available.
I once worked in a house lived in by an educated, wealthy family. They actually had their detector go off every day, sometimes a few times a day. It had to do with how their wood burning stove vented. They would open windows and let the wood burning stove go out; then start all over again. I could not have slept in that house; what if you slept through the alarm or if it didn’t go off for some reason? They ultimately fixed the problem and lived happily ever after but I thought that they were freaking nuts for playing Russian Roulette like that.

Just on my homepage here in Pa... Could have been prevented with a couple bucks spent on Detectors/alarms.

Actress and model Dayle Haddon dies from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at actor Marc Blucas' home​

MSN

 

[Hey-O]

I agree with their importance. And for the few that don’t know , they have combo smoke/CO detectors so no need to add an electric box for the 110volt type

X2
All of mine are the combos and one by my furnace and water heater. Sad and a reminder for all of us. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Sixpactogo]

I have had two of the battery powered combo units with the 10 year batteries for a number of years now. One in the basement staircase and one in the hallway near the bedrooms. Here in Wisconsin they are required on every level of a single family home. New construction requires hard wired with battery back-up. I am on my second set of the 10 year units. When the battery gets weak, they start beeping and need to be replaced.
Another concern in my area is Radon Gas. High levels cause cancer and other breathing issues. No requirements but strongly suggested to do the testing.

 

[mrhemi]

I have the "Building Code" combos on all three floors of our home, as well as two plug in CO detectors. One in the bedroom and one in the boiler room. Being a past victim (survivor?) of a mass CO poisoning a few years back, I take them very seriously. The incident I was involved in put 20-30 people in the hospital, including a few air ambulance rides to Torontostan to go in the Hyperbaric chamber. Fortunately, in this instance there were no fatalities

 

[padam]

We have them.
There are 3 incidents that bother me:
1. Where we used to fish in Quebec, about 30 years ago a party was poisoned by a propane refridgerator. I'm not exactly sure what happened, the camp owner told us there were coats piled on top of the fridge, blocking the vent. I think 3 or 4 died. The camp has never recovered financially to this day.
2. A few years later, a guy I worked with (volunteer firefighter mind you), and his whole family nearly died. They had a very well insulated home. They were burning a wood fireplace. His theory was that the wood fire used up the oxygen in the house and started drawing air in from the gas furnace chimney bringing in CO. They all recovered.
3. Around the same time period I was deer hunting by myself. I was staying in a tent and got very cold and wet during the day. I foolishly zipped up the tent and heated it up with a Coleman stove. Luckily I realized that I was getting sick and went home before I went to bed for the night.
CO is no joke.

 

[JDmac72chrgr]

About 15 years ago, widow who lived across the street from me was having heater trouble; went over to took at it, dust on themostat, cleaned it for her; as I looked at heater, no CO detectors: got her 1, put it by flues for hot water heater & heater : 2 into 1 ducts: about 6 months later, she came over it wouldn't stop chirping, BIG OLE HOLE IN FLUE: opened window, fan in window; she had contract with SJ Gas for heater service, they fixed it for free. Poor lady had 3 gas line leaks at various times too, turned her manicured zoyza grass brown; 1961 gas main in street leaked each time.

 

[padam]

I don't have any experience with them or have a need that I know of offhand. I just remember they came up in my searches and that they made them because I just replaced all of the Alarms/Detectors in my house the last few weeks since I heat my home with a wood fireplace insert and an oil burner for my hot water....

I believe CO is generated by any combustion, wood, gas, oil.

This is a real danger with an old furnace. If the heat exchanger develops cracks, CO can get into the warm air circulation. I'm going by my very foggy memory (lost brain cells to more than CO.)

IIRC there are some HVAC guys on here that really know the facts.