Appex Combination Carbon Monoxide Detector and Smoke Detector Battery Operated with Photoelectric Sensor Alarm
Yes, carbon monoxide inside the home is certainly a danger, and that's the best reason to get rid of unvented gas space heaters. It's just never a good idea to burn a fuel inside your home without having a vent for the combustion gases.
Carbon monoxide results from incomplete combustion of natural gas. During complete combustion, natural gas, which is mostly methane (CH4), combines with oxygen (O2) from the air and produces carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor (H2O). When the combustion process isn't complete, you get more carbon monoxide (CO) and less carbon dioxide.
The often unrecognized problem with these heaters, though, is the huge amount of water vapor that they put in your home's air. In my grandparents' home, I think the gas space heaters worked well most of the time and didn't produce much CO. They did produce a lot of water vapor, however.
Appex Combination Carbon Monoxide Detector and Smoke Detector Battery Operated with Photoelectric Sensor Alarm
Hi
I am using a heater.I heard that carbon monoxide gas can be a silent killer for gas heater users. Then what are the precautions for using a heater?
HMmmmmm ? I have one in my hallway.
I wonder if the battery is still good.
Yep !! You may have just saved a life!!
when i built my house, i pulled wire to them, and installed the kind with out batteries.
But, ...for the less fortunate that do not have the luxury of a generator, the alarm(s) should have battery backup.
What if you had a circuit failure or an electrical fire on that circuit (they are on a dedicated circuit, right)?
what if what if what if
cause I hate that damn CHIRP CHIRP of batteries
3 separate dedicated circuits.
not fancy, lazy, it was easier to pull home runs than to daisy chain
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