Why was a hard wired CO1 detector a bad idea? I have three wired together on three levels of this home and intend to add a fourth. I am certain I wouldn't hear the basement one sounding from the upstairs bedroom in the night.
Mine are combined smoke & CO1 but that is not likely necessary, CO1 is relatively heavy so mounting one near appliances likely to leak carbon monoxide should be sufficient. One near a gas kitchen range for example or a gas or oil fire place and of course the furnace. We are required to have a smoke detector at each level and it seemed to me prudent to set up a system which would give warning throughout the dwelling. I believe you are correct, some carbon monoxide detectors do expire, some total readings so you get a total over time and they eventually saturate. I don't think all suffer that though. ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Stephan To: List, blindhandyman Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 4:32 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Carbon Monoxide detecters about four years ago I bought a carbon monoxide detector that runs on house current. This was a bad idea and I have no idea what I was thinking about at the time. Anyway, the service tech that did some work on our furnace yesterday suggested to my wife that we should have these detectors on all three levels of the house. I got no problem with that, but wondered if anyone had opinions as to whether it would be better to buy stand alone carbon monoxide detectors or combination carbon monoxide and smoke detectors. Also, my wife said the tech said that these carbon monoxide detectors are only good for about three years. Anybody know if that's true? thanks. all: Bill Stephan, Kansas City MO Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (816)803-2469 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
