Need Help to Choose a Smoke/Carbon Monoxide Detector?

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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

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"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........

Mother selling house "AS IS"?

robby_road

It's under lawyer review, but then came the inspectors and said the lack of railing near basement steps is a violation, needed more smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, electrical wiring needed to be fixed in one room, etc. The house is being sold at a low price in consideration of these defects. Now the buyer's agent, inspector, and my mom's agent is saying these problems have to be fixed. I thought "as is" means "as is."

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This sounds like things the buyers lender wants, not anything legally required. The detector requirements are for tenants, and landlords supply them, not sellers. The other code issues are legal to sell as is. You can sell a burned out shell if you want to.

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