Carbon monoxide detectors

Canucklehead

Hi
If you go to the above site and scroll down to 'Common misconceptions.' you will find ......All fossil fuels produce carbon monoxide.

Get a mains or battery smoke alarm type for best safety. Remember you have to be awake to look at a dot on a piece of card!


Corgi Guy.

mehefin

Having had one of these go off at 2 am a few years ago (and probably saving my families lives)I would strongly recommend any one with a heat source in their hones to get one. The cost is minor compared to the cost of a funeral!
Go for a battery one rather than the dot thing. They drive you mad when the battery is dying but at least give you sufficient warning to replace them.

going2die_rich

Is their anything you have to replace in the Carbon Monoxide Alarm's other than the battery? i.e. does it need replacing each year like the paper versions?

ariba10

TommyBoy wrote:

My brother just brought 2 for our house and Im sure he said they were only about a fiver for the pair from Wickes. Theyre the cards that turn black if there is any danger

They are only of use if you look to see if it has turned black.

You would be better off with an alarm.

ariba10

going2die_rich wrote:

Is their anything you have to replace in the Carbon Monoxide Alarm's other than the battery? i.e. does it need replacing each year like the paper versions?

B & Q sell a mains operated one.

ariba10

Poppycat wrote:

I dont mind getting one but I didnt want to waste money given that its real fire and boiler is outside.

As was the one that killed the two children on holiday.

mehefin

going2die_rich wrote:

Is their anything you have to replace in the Carbon Monoxide Alarm's other than the battery? i.e. does it need replacing each year like the paper versions?

The battery ones are usually sealed units - you have to replace the whole thing. However they do last a couple of years at least so think of it as cheap life insurance - same with your smoke alarm.

babyangel10

Just to add that I believe that the card/dot ones are apparently not very reliable - seemingly there is a high chance you'll be dead before the dot has even changed colour.

Maybe one of the Corgi peeps on here can confirm/deny that?

Definitely buying one asap - Woollies seem to always be out of stock at the mo, but hadn't thought about Wickes, so will give them a try too.

Poppycat

Thanks for the advice guys

Minerva69

I was told by a gas engineer that the card ones are useless. They saw one in my kitchen and told me to get rid of it. They said the carbon monoxide has to build up quite a lot before it changes colour, and if you open a door or window or anything then the card will change back to "normal" before you've had chance to check it.