Carbon monoxide Detector Placement

mollsnan

2 storey house, gas boiler on back wall of hot press cupboard in bathroom. Old monitor sat on ledge about 12” away on side wall as placed by installer. New monitor instructions confusing don’t place in cupboard. Hubby and I disagreeing here I think place outside bathroom door on landing, he still says in cupboard. Now at stake is a gin and tonic for me tonight. So good folks any suggestions I’m sick looking at this device staring at me from table.

Risteard

Siting instructions should come with the detector. Certainly I would not site it in the hot press but in the room outside if there is a combustion appliance there. Electrical equipment in a hot press is best limited to necessary parts of the heating system and connection to the immersion heater.

gardner1

Outside on landing so all bedrooms are covered

stator

Don't place it in the cupboard, no-one lives in the cupboard (I hope).


You need the detector to tell you if there are dangerous levels of CO in the living areas of your house.

Ideally you have one alarm in the room with the boiler, plus one in any room that has other fires, plus one in every room that somebody sleeps in.


If it was in the cupboard, it wouldn't detect any CO leaking into your house through any other means than the boiler leaking it from it's case.
What if the fumes escaped into the wall cavity and exited the cavity in another room?

FreeBear

One to three metres away from the appliance and out of the way of any draughts. Fix to the wall around shoulder height. Installing an alarm inside a cupboard would only serve to muffle the sound should it ever go off.

If you can afford it, install a CO alarm in each bedroom, lounge, & dining room along with a smoke alarm in the kitchen, hallway, and landing.

Risteard

FreeBear wrote: »

One to three metres away from the appliance and out of the way of any draughts. Fix to the wall around shoulder height. Installing an alarm inside a cupboard would only serve to muffle the sound should it ever go off.

If you can afford it, install a CO alarm in each bedroom, lounge, & dining room along with a smoke alarm in the kitchen, hallway, and landing.

It is not always the case that a CO detector should be at breathing height. Generally they should be on the ceiling (at least in the opinion of Ei Electronics/Aico) - with the exception being the likes of a bedroom where for those sleeping breathing height might be more appropriate.

gardner1

You only really need 2 in an average 3 bed house....1 on landing so it covers all bedrooms and 1 downstairs in hallway area
Throw in smoke alarm on each floor and that should do you

Risteard

gardner1 wrote: »

You only really need 2 in an average 2 bed house....1 one landing so it covers all bedrooms and 1 downstairs in hallway area
Throw in smoke alarm on each floor and that should do you

We do a minimum of LD2 systems - not the poor LD3 nonsense that England has. So a smoke alarm on each floor simply doesn't cut it.

mollsnan

Thank you all. Outside bathroom it is then, plus another ordered for downstairs! No other gas appliances in house. Gin and tonic for me then. Cheers!

FreeBear

mollsnan wrote: »

No other gas appliances in house.

Any open fires or wood/multifuel stoves ?
If there are, you should really have one in each of those rooms.


P.S. Sis tells me the M&S oak aged gin is a nice little tipple, but that is her opinion, not mine.

mollsnan

Freebear your sister’s choice of gin sounds interesting I’ll be in m&s today, a bottle may just accidentally fall into my trolley. And yes we have an open fire, rarely used, but never thought about monitor in there. Must get that sorted.