Carbon monoxide alarms
Discussion
Um...so it did it's job? I.E detected some CO?
Like smoke alarms, they're there to save your life. Hence shouldn't be turned off?!
The only other thing you might want to consider, if you think it was a false alarm, is to get a CO alarm with a display.
Mine has one, a digital display which will show how many PPM of CO it has detected should it go off.
Nice to walk past it and see it on '00' all the time
Like smoke alarms, they're there to save your life. Hence shouldn't be turned off?!
The only other thing you might want to consider, if you think it was a false alarm, is to get a CO alarm with a display.
Mine has one, a digital display which will show how many PPM of CO it has detected should it go off.
Nice to walk past it and see it on '00' all the time
Ray Luxury-Yacht said:
Um...so it did it's job? I.E detected some CO?
Like smoke alarms, they're there to save your life. Hence shouldn't be turned off?!
The only other thing you might want to consider, if you think it was a false alarm, is to get a CO alarm with a display.
Mine has one, a digital display which will show how many PPM of CO it has detected should it go off.
Nice to walk past it and see it on '00' all the time
If it's reading "00" all the time bin it and buy a new one.Like smoke alarms, they're there to save your life. Hence shouldn't be turned off?!
The only other thing you might want to consider, if you think it was a false alarm, is to get a CO alarm with a display.
Mine has one, a digital display which will show how many PPM of CO it has detected should it go off.
Nice to walk past it and see it on '00' all the time
SPR2 said:
It was reading 15 so they checked all round and disconnected my gas. When they left the readings had dropped to 7. I felt a bit guilty when 2 appliances arrived but they assured me I had done the correct thing.
That's worrying - did you find out what it was?For anyone else you can get a CO spray on ebay for test purposes
Simpo Two said:
BFG TERRANO said:
If it's reading "00" all the time bin it and buy a new one.
Mine does.The only exception was once when I left the grill on with the over door shut and to my slight shock it went up to 35.
OP, 15PPM isn't high enough to set the alarm off. Either it was faulty or the levels were much higher than that when it went off.
Did you have any fossil fuel burning appliances running when it went off?
saaby93 said:
That's worrying - did you find out what it was?
For anyone else you can get a CO spray on ebay for test purposes
Not really but I only have a gas boiler and gas fire and the fire had not been on.The boiler is on a setting to come on twice a day for water only which had gone off at 8.30 pm.For anyone else you can get a CO spray on ebay for test purposes
Anyway tomorrow the boiler is being serviced and smoke tested, the fire serviced too then my gas can be reconnected hopefully.
I have two. One is a bit iffy in that once it goes off it goes mental and you cant shut it up, eg if you press the test button. Might be some kind of safety thing ie you can't shut it up. I have two (different makes) to be sure. But why did yours go off have you got the heating on??? Its not very cold yet I thought.
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