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02-03-2015, 06:10 AM | #1 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Do You Have a Carbon Monoxide Detector? Just thought I'd post a reminder for everyone to get one of these. One of my neighbors recently had an incident w/ their water heater (10 yr old home) where it was releasing carbon monoxide....thank God they had a detector or the whole family could've died! If you don't have one, get one!
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02-03-2015, 06:49 AM | #2 |
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| Good reminder Ann. Yep, 3 of them one at each end of the house one in living room. Change battery when we do the time change. Smoke detectors also.
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02-03-2015, 07:13 AM | #3 |
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| Yep I sure do. I have 5 of them through out the house. Carbon Monoxide is one thing that scares the crap out of me.
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02-03-2015, 07:51 AM | #4 |
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| Yes, for sure. I lost my mom and her friend to carbon monoxide poisoning and I went right out and bought three of them for my house after that. We make sure they are in good working order. I just wish my mom had had them.
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02-03-2015, 07:59 AM | #5 |
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| We do not have any. We keep saying we're going to get one (or two) but we keep putting it off. We also want to get one for radon gas.
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02-03-2015, 08:01 AM | #6 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Am working on my third one now. For years I had two monitoring at once and both were several years old when one went off one Sunday so I got Jilly out back, opened windows and called the fire department from the car, where we waited for them to come. They came and ran the test all over the house - normal. Said that particular model of CMD's had a high rate of false positives so I got a new one.
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02-03-2015, 08:05 AM | #7 | |
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02-03-2015, 08:22 AM | #8 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I think it was a First Alert but I don't remember the model number. It used a 9 volt battery, had the apparatus that you screw onto the wall and then place the smoke alert onto it with a twisting motion and click it into place, just like so many of them. It was at least 12 or more years ago that I bought it so I'm sure they've fixed that model or changed it by now, especially if fire departments complained of false alarms. And it did work well for several years before it misfired and the other one - the same model - never did before I finally disposed of it. I replaced it with a Kidde.
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02-03-2015, 12:26 PM | #9 | |
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02-03-2015, 01:38 PM | #10 |
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| And on every level, including the basement.
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02-03-2015, 02:35 PM | #11 |
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| Thanks for posting that. We have one but it's like 4ft up. It was installed by some group that helps senior citizens (my grandmom). They also didn't put one down the basement where the heater is. |
02-03-2015, 03:50 PM | #13 | |
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When I bought my lil house, i still had my big house that I lived at. I would go over and work on projects at the little house, and I was exhausted....always tired. I didn't think much of it, as I was working full-time and then working at the lil house at nights and weekends..it made sense I'd be tired. Then one evening, I fell asleep there. After repeatedly not answering my phone, my mum came over to the lil house to check on me. She was worried I'd fallen off a ladder or something. She woke me up and knew something was wrong, and took me to the emergency clinic, thinking I had a bad case of the flu. The nurse upon hearing my mum 's account about me being so tired working at the lil house, knew right away what it was and tested my blood oxygen level. The local energy company assumed it was the furnace, but it was the water-heater! It was improperly vented, with dryer vent flex pipe. At sometime prior, the water heater had been moved, and the water pipes extended with red& blue flex pipe, and the vent extended with dryer vent flexible tubing. I got a new water heater, and all is good. Mum bought a carbon monoxide detector that week, and I've had one ever since. I recommend everyone have at least one in there home.
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02-03-2015, 05:21 PM | #14 | |
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02-03-2015, 06:10 PM | #15 |
and Khloe Mae's too! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Eastern Washington
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| We have one that is on the stairs to the basement. Sounds like we need to get a couple more! Scary...
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