Fred
Hey everyone
I'm moving to a new apartment in Montgomery County (Maryland) and I want to get a new smoke/carbon monoxide detector. I never bought one before and I have no idea which brand is good or anything...
My new house already has a wired smoke detector and I kind of want to upgrade it. It's a one story three-bedroom condo (1000 square feet) and it uses electricity except for the water heater which uses natural gas.
I read a lot of reviews and I know I want to have both smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector. I also want to use hard wire devices with backup battery. I want a smoke detector with dual sensor (Ionization + Photoelectric).
I looked at amazon.com and I found out that all the combo devices (smoke/carbon) only uses Ionization sensors and there isn't any combo device that uses dual sensors for the smoke.
So, in your experience, should I buy two separate detectors (1 dual-sensor smoke + 1 carbon monoxide) or should I only buy a combo detector (smoke/carbon) with a regular Ionization sensor and just forget the Photoelectric sensor?
Also, can you suggest a brand that you know is good?
I don't really care about the price and my main concern is safety.
I really appreciate your helps and suggestions
Answer
"kidde" brand is good..they make a combo smoke / c.o. detecter that just runs on a battery so it can located anywhere,as opposed to having it at an outlet and occupy that outlet.[ that can be inconvenient ]....it has 2 seperate sounds for smoke and c.o. ...it also has a voice that tells you which one its sounding an alarm for.... available at home depot and similar stores........
"kidde" brand is good..they make a combo smoke / c.o. detecter that just runs on a battery so it can located anywhere,as opposed to having it at an outlet and occupy that outlet.[ that can be inconvenient ]....it has 2 seperate sounds for smoke and c.o. ...it also has a voice that tells you which one its sounding an alarm for.... available at home depot and similar stores........
Faulty Carbon Monoxide Dectector?
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Ive had this old carbon monoxide dectector that we found in a house that we have recently bought and i decided to install it in our daughters room because it is a remodled basement that unfortunatly has the furnace in the corder of the room. Its been working for a couple of months and the readings have always been at zero or close to it but recently it has been showing readings of 400-800 and its been making my wife a little nervouse. The problem is that when I go down into the basement their isnt any noticable smell of any gas leakage and the furnace seems to be running properly and our daughter doesnt show any weird symptoms or anything besides being allitle light headed but the school nurse said thats just because of her animia she has had scense birth. so im thinking that I may need to go get a new detector. Me and my wife are just worried because our daughter is such a heavy sleeper that she may not wake up in time if anything were to happen and we cant take a risk by having a faulty reader.
And yes you can smell carbon monoxide, in our old house we had a detector and if we left our car running with a door open the readings would go up and the place would smell like it, Dont tell people that they cant smell it because thats dangerouse and misleading.
Answer
You should replace it. Most CO detectors use a tiny amount of radioactive material which decays over time. This causes the detectors to become less effective over time. Home Depot or Lowes carries a variety of CO detectors. Iâd go for a mid priced model as the cheaper ones are prone to give false signals and the more expensive ones just look more high tech but arenât any more effective than the mid range models.
30 yrs hvac exp
Added 1/30/12: JJJJ; There seems to be a consensus among all us answering, although some may be fuzzily rude or confused about different forms. The fact is there is only one form of carbon monoxide (CO) consisting of one atom of carbon (C) and one atom of oxygen (O) or formally (C1 O1) regardless of how it is produced. Faulty gas or oil burning appliances; fireplaces; car, motorcycle, lawn mower or any combustion engine exhaust etc⦠It is a FACT that pure CO is odorless however, the smell people associate with CO can be strong or subtle, can mask itself in many forms such as sewer gas, dirty socks, smoke and many other variances to individual noses. The smell is real caused by the byproducts of incomplete combustion of fuel. By the time you âsmellâ the problem you can count yourself lucky to be alive to argue about it. CO is an insidious killer of hundreds of people every winter in the US alone simply because they were unaware of the importance of a CO detector, or may have smelled something but didnât know what it was. There is nothing here to disagree about. Iâve spelled out the proven scientific facts above. The only remaining question is how much of a chance do you want to take. I believe you need to buy a new CO detector, if not 2 or 3, and spend about $40-$50 for a quality unit that wonât cause false alarms like the cheap ones do. You can spend more but it would only buy you more bells and whistles in a prettier package than the mid priced models.
Or you can rely on your nose and an old detector. Youâll probably be fine⦠or you and your family can become another job for a coroner, annoyed at being forced out of his warm office to tag and bag another houseful of stiff, cold bodies to be added to the sadly preventable statistics of those mostly innocent souls who pass quietly in the night. Best of luck to you jjj.
You should replace it. Most CO detectors use a tiny amount of radioactive material which decays over time. This causes the detectors to become less effective over time. Home Depot or Lowes carries a variety of CO detectors. Iâd go for a mid priced model as the cheaper ones are prone to give false signals and the more expensive ones just look more high tech but arenât any more effective than the mid range models.
30 yrs hvac exp
Added 1/30/12: JJJJ; There seems to be a consensus among all us answering, although some may be fuzzily rude or confused about different forms. The fact is there is only one form of carbon monoxide (CO) consisting of one atom of carbon (C) and one atom of oxygen (O) or formally (C1 O1) regardless of how it is produced. Faulty gas or oil burning appliances; fireplaces; car, motorcycle, lawn mower or any combustion engine exhaust etc⦠It is a FACT that pure CO is odorless however, the smell people associate with CO can be strong or subtle, can mask itself in many forms such as sewer gas, dirty socks, smoke and many other variances to individual noses. The smell is real caused by the byproducts of incomplete combustion of fuel. By the time you âsmellâ the problem you can count yourself lucky to be alive to argue about it. CO is an insidious killer of hundreds of people every winter in the US alone simply because they were unaware of the importance of a CO detector, or may have smelled something but didnât know what it was. There is nothing here to disagree about. Iâve spelled out the proven scientific facts above. The only remaining question is how much of a chance do you want to take. I believe you need to buy a new CO detector, if not 2 or 3, and spend about $40-$50 for a quality unit that wonât cause false alarms like the cheap ones do. You can spend more but it would only buy you more bells and whistles in a prettier package than the mid priced models.
Or you can rely on your nose and an old detector. Youâll probably be fine⦠or you and your family can become another job for a coroner, annoyed at being forced out of his warm office to tag and bag another houseful of stiff, cold bodies to be added to the sadly preventable statistics of those mostly innocent souls who pass quietly in the night. Best of luck to you jjj.
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