Watching all the commercials for CO2 detectors are driving me crazy and scaring people for absolutely no reason. My brother and I went on a service call yesterday to a really nice old lady. She has Electric utilities and swears she NEVER BBQ's in the house yet wanted us to install 5 CO2 detectors that Home Depot sold here. We told her to take them back and get her money back as they would do nothing at all in her house except beep when the battery gets old. Why is it not mentioned in any of the Scare Commercials that they are only needed if you have gas or some other source of CO2???They will sell Millions of these things to people that have absolutely no need of them out of Fear and Ignorance. WoW, so the biggest source some claim is breathing????? Give me a break, unless you live in a sealed aquarium...then this...
"Other nonliving sources of the gas may include space heaters, clothes dryers, stoves, or any other unvented gas-burning appliance. The gas may also infiltrate the home from an outdoor source, in which case the cause is most likely to be a large industrial area or any processes which involve the burning of fossil fuels."
This is really a scare tactic to sell a bunch of useless detectors, maybe the Government should do something that will actually help someone...
Mythbusters already busted the myth of someone farting to much....

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Watching all the commercials for CO2 detectors are driving me crazy and scaring people for absolutely no reason. My brother and I went on a service call yesterday to a really nice old lady. She has Electric utilities and swears she NEVER BBQ's in the house yet wanted us to install 5 CO2 detectors that Home Depot sold here. We told her to take them back and get her money back as they would do nothing at all in her house except beep when the battery gets old. Why is it not mentioned in any of the Scare Commercials that they are only needed if you have gas or some other source of CO2???They will sell Millions of these things to people that have absolutely no need of them out of Fear and Ignorance. WoW, so the biggest source some claim is breathing????? Give me a break, unless you live in a sealed aquarium...then this...
"Other nonliving sources of the gas may include space heaters, clothes dryers, stoves, or any other unvented gas-burning appliance. The gas may also infiltrate the home from an outdoor source, in which case the cause is most likely to be a large industrial area or any processes which involve the burning of fossil fuels."
This is really a scare tactic to sell a bunch of useless detectors, maybe the Government should do something that will actually help someone...
Mythbusters already busted the myth of someone farting to much....

And they passed a law in California requiring them in every house.

Expletive nanny state.

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I presume you are talking about CO detectors--ie carbon mon-oxide. This gas is deadly as oposed to CO-2 carbon dioxide which is harmless in the concentrations that we are likely to experience.

If you have an attached garage they might be a good idea. Also if you have gas or oil heat or hotwater they couldn't hurt either. You can buy the kind that plugs in so the battery only works when the power is out.

CO wants to be CO-2 hence it steals the other Oxygen from the Hemoglobin in your blood which suffocates you fairly quickly.

Carbon Monoxide poisoning is a rare even usually relegated to northern states or where old and/or defective Furnaces are used. I've been in the Medical field for 20+ years and have only seen it 2 times. ONce in the ER at Parkland Hospital in Dallas and once up north. Both were caused by improperly maintained furnaces.

Perhaps we'd be better off if they required your furnace to be checked each year as opposed to wasting money on CO detectors.

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I believe CO detectors, like smoke detectors, are a very smart albeit small investment.
CO can come from many sources, some of which are not commonly considered, such leaving a car running in a garage.

I happen to have a very old oil burning furnace, and although I maintain it every year, I have a CO detector 'just in case' due to it's old age.

Can't be too safe for the kitties.

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I have been house hunting in arizona and most of the houses I looked at had low batteries in ether the CO detecter or the fire alarm. The house I am getting also has both detectors and at least one of them has low batteries and I can only hope they run down before I move in. I don't want to make replacing the batteries my first priority when moving as they are over 9 feet up and I will need to get a ladder to service them. It is a little strange to me because the house is all electric and has no gas connected to it. I have a CO detector now had it has picked up auto exhaust but it has never reached dangerous levels.
If you pay attention to it, one or two properly placed detectors would do the job and 5 would be overkill.

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Every winter you will read of people dying of improperly vented kerosine heaters, and by using charcoal to stay warm indoors. You could also have a senior citizen who forgot to turn his car off when he put it in the garage.

I did lose two high-school classmates to CO-2. Even though it was a suicide I am sensitive to keeping an "eye" out and am careful to check my furnace, fireplace and hot water heater vents for obstructions and have found bird nests occasionally blocking them partially. Now make sure I have a mesh over these outlets.

Those are probably smoke detectors and are also a good idea. Fires could start anywhere especially in the kitchen and garage area. I change my batteries once a year and have to use a short ladder which I schlep around the house. They go off when I burn something in the kitchen in the frying pan. My wife almost burned our porch down once using the grill to roast a chicken which ignited the grease dripping off and was fueled by the grease catch pan also being fairly full.

The grill is now off the porch and down on a concrete deck. Detectors won't hurt you financially and could save your bacon as well as your belongings.

The point being...We don't need a law to require Carbon Monoxide detectors unless you live in a house that has a high probability or at least some kind of source. The commercials are scare tactics like the US always uses and just like the boy that cried Wolf, the tactics will eventually quit working...You can only scare the Sheeple so long before they become complacent.

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