Carbon Monoxide Detectors: 2014-05-11

Sabtu, 17 Mei 2014

How do I check 4 carbon monoxide?

Ash

Recently, every time the gas logs come on in my house, me, my brother, sister, and mom start getting headaches. My brother is the worst, also having nausea. Ithink it's because he sleeps near the heater.

Answer
They sell monitors that you can either plug in to a wall socket or use with batteries: You can find them at most large department stores like Walmart, Target, Sears, Home Depot, or Lowes.

They are kind of like smoke detectors.

where can you find a good and not to expensive carbon monoxide detectors in beverly hills?

Jessica l

name the places

Answer
I have no idea what type of retail stores you have in B.H.,
but you can get one at any Home Depot, Lowes, Target,
K-Mart, or probably any hardware store.

Have we got carbon monoxide?

Anon

We have had a carbon monoxide alarm for years and it has never been used, recently had a family friend pass away due to carbon monoxide poisoning. So I'm really worried. I don't think my mum is well mentally and now is saying oh ill sort it etc etc and doesnt understand people DIE from this, so I'm having to take things on myself and try look after us both. I put some new batteries in the alarm and it started beeping really loud straight away right in my ear so I took it out, I am going to get our local council or something to look at it this week but I just want peace of mind for now, is it just beeping in general or have we got carbon monoxide? (I only put the last battery in for a second it beeped really loud then I took it out). Because we are aren't able to support ourselves financially heating etc she uses the gas burners to heat the house (around 4-7 years) but I put a stop to it about a month ago, but yesterday the gas went back on!!

Answer
I'd buy a new alarm . . . . . . carbon monoxide is produced by combustion: a car engine in attached garage, a clogged chimney - or Yes, burning the gas burners continually. "Not well mentally" is scary, whether it's the result of age - or breathing carbon monoxide. Sounds like you should buy her a small electric heater for the area she normally sits . . . so she won't turn on the gas.

My carbon monoxide detector keep going off?

kevin

So this morning I woke up and it started to beep. I tried to switch batteries and now it beeps once every twelve or so seconds.

Answer
Periodic beeping or chirping, rather than a continuous alarm, is indicative of a problem with the detector itself rather than a carbon monoxide problem. Assuming the battery you put in was good and properly connected, then it could be the detector has reached its end of life (they're only good for 5-7 years, depending on make and model).

Jumat, 16 Mei 2014

Fireplace question........................?

Answers

We've bought our house for more than 6 years and have only
turned on the fireplace once. My dad decided to turn it on
tonight, he turned it off a few hours ago but there's still a
small blue flame going. Should I be worried about carbon
monoxide poisoning?

Answer
No, this is the pilot light. It stays on. the exhaust gas is going up the chimney, so you are safe.

carbon monoxide occurs when the gas burns with too little oxygen. You will see a yellow flame and an accumulation of black soot. blue is good, gold is not good.

Suggest to your father that he invest in a carbon monoxide detector. They are on sale at Costco for under $30.

Why won't my oven fire up?

Michelle

My furnace went out and I'd been using my oven for heat for over a month. :-( The ignitor glow bar lights up and stays lit as it should, I can smell gas, but the burner does not ignite; the flames don't come up. What could I need? I'm kinda handy, but I have no idea about stoves. Thanks.

Answer
Your ignitor has probably gotten weak from overuse & now can't open the gas valve enough to ignite the burner. Is it glowing red or orangey-yellow? Red means replace. And stop using it as a heat source immediately. It creates the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning. Unless you have a CO detector, you won't know you have a problem until someone gets very sick or dies There is no odor & all you'll likely feel is sleepy. Then you won't wake up.

Carbon Monoxide Detectors?

Daniel D

I just moved into a new home that is all electirc. In my previous home I had natural gas, so I had a carbon mononoxide dectector. I just unpacked my old detector and plugged it in for the heck of it. It had a high reading of carbon monoxide. Is that possible or is it defective. Can I have carbon monoxide without having natural gas.

Answer
If there is no gas or fireplace in your home, I would look into the box that you moved it in. There are many chemicals that the fumes will mess with the sensor.
Take outside if possible and turn on, let set for a half hour to fresh air the sensor.
Also with the cold weather many people use fireplaces, if the humidity was high and no wind, many times the smoke or smoke by products i.e. CO will stay low to the ground and enter your home.

Can you you get Carbon Monoxide poisoning from heating your house with a gas powered ovens?

cvo

Answer
Carbon Monoxide is a product of incomplete combustion. Many people will use a cook stove to heat their house if the power goes out. If you have natural gas in your house you should have a CO detector anyway so you'll be covered. many heaters are designed to be ventless so they are safe to operate. If your stove is not operating properly and has a lot of yellow flame, which can be an indication of incomplete combustion, then there is a risk. If you have a nice even blue flame then you should be good to go.

Kamis, 15 Mei 2014

What do you do to save money?

circa 1980

I'm inspired to ask this from an episode of Oprah today. Supposedly one lady saved $200/month on her electric bill, simply by unplugging EVERYTHING not in use!
What are some things you do? At home? Grocery shopping? Saving on gas...etc?

Answer
I use a Kill-A-Watt meter to measure how much each electricity plugged-in device in my home uses. This meter measures watts of power used at a given moment, as well as kilowatt hours used over time. I found out that my coffee maker uses 2 watts constantly just because it's plugged in, my cable modem and router each use 15 watts constantly, my printer another 40 watts, and so on. All told I think I found around 300 watts worth of electricity that was being burned 24x7, which over the course of a month, assuming you're paying $0.10 per kilowatt hour (which was my rate at the time), adds up to $21.60 per month. I switched a plug-in carbon monoxide detector to a battery-powered one; lowered the brightness on a clock radio to its minimum setting; unplugged the DVD player and television, and only plug them in when in use (which in our house is only about twice a week for a couple of hours); and put the computer equipment on a second power bar, so I can have just the desktop computer on (one power bar), or just the router, modem, and printer on (other power bar) to access from my laptop, or both.

I also measured fridge and freezer power consumption with the Kill A Watt meter and then measured the temperature inside the fridge and freezer to make sure they weren't too cold. Turns out my kids had accidentally turned the fridge freezer setting down to about -20F, way too cold! So I adjusted that as well.

All told we were able to lower our electricity consumption by perhaps 4 kilowatt hours a day, to an extremely low 8-9 kwh, which is about a quarter to a fifth of what the average family uses in my area (province of Ontario Canada). We never paid anywhere near $200 a month for electricity, so we couldn't possibly save that much, but I would guess that someone paying over $200 in electricity could probably save three quarters of it by understanding where their energy is being used and by saving as much as possible.

I've tried to share some of my insights about saving energy with a little website I've developed, links to relevant articles provided below. Also a link to a site covering the kill-a-watt meter. Hope you find them useful.

Question about carbon monoxide detector ?

GAB X P

In California, it is the law to install carbon monoxide detectors in addition to smoke detectors in a rental single family unit.
Do I have to replace the smoke detectors I have hard-wired and battery back-up with the new kind which is a combination of smoke-and-carbon monoxide ? Or, can I leave the smoke detectors there and just install the battery operated carbon monoxide ? The big reason is that I saw the new kind--combination carbon monoxide--and--smoke detectors at Home Depot, and they are $ 55.00 each. They are very expensive, therefore,can I just put the cheap kind battery operated ? Thanks

Answer
You are still required to have regular smoke detector, the carbon detector is not a replacement for the regular fire and smoke detectors whichever may apply Commercial properties are required to have all 3 vs residential properties are only smoke, and now carbon detector.

And its really not because you have a risk of carbon poisoning , unless its due to your own negligence
Like bringing your grill indoors to keep warm.Apparently in this day and age no one has learned history
of others doing stupid things and "Hey y''all" watch this was born. So because 9 people across multi states didn't have enough common sense {Its no longer taught" The federal Government made it a law which means every home in the USA rental,commercial, or otherwise, is now required to also have a carbon detector. Just so the few get a little device that says carbon detector on its case is beeping.And they can take their tiny little brain and say that was stupid and run outside call the fire department because they are ignorant . Hence the reason why your now required to have both.

And a whole bunch of new companies and even some that make regular detectors are making billions of tax free dollars on everyone else that have common sense but that's the whole gospel truth of the matter

So do not dis connect the regular fire system you have, add the carbon detector to the current system, that is the new federal rules for everyone one including home owners which are the ones that spurred the creation of the law

hope that helps
Lr

carbon monoxide detector, California apartment law?

Jessica!

Do i have to buy the carbon monoxide detector for my apartment or does my land lord?

Answer
HI
I recommende you but carbon monoxide detector by yourself, because you can transfer it for another
apartment .
best regard
diyaco

on a nighthawk detector what numbers are considered unsafe?

Nay

We have a Nighthawk carbon monoxide detector in our home. The number 8 just recently appeared on the screen. Should we be concerned? No alarm has gone off.

Answer
I just installed one of those the other day and I would have sworn that 8 was an error code that I got and that you just have to unplug the detector and plug it back in. But I just looked at the manual online and there is no mention of 8 being an error code. It does display "888" for a few seconds when you fist plug it in.

If it is steadily displaying an 8 then that is the level of carbon monoxide that it has detected since last reset. On the one hand that is a very low level and is safe - some references put the maximum continuous exposure level at 35 ppm and some say 50 ppm. Either way, 8 ppm is very low.

But then you have to wonder where the 8 ppm came from and if it is from a leak than may get worse over time. Having a CO detector is a good thing, it will make plenty of noise if the levels ever get to the point that you need to take action.

You could call Kidde at 800-880-6788 and talk to them if you want some reassurance.

Rabu, 14 Mei 2014

Where is carbon monoxide found besides the car exhaust?

lala878787

Answer
Carbon monoxide can be found in coal mines where it is very dangerous to coal miners since it is odorless and colorless. In the old days, miners would take canaries down inside the mine in little cages, if the canary died, they knew the air wasn't safe to breathe and they better get back up to ground. Now they have chemical detectors for the same thing.

Carbon monoxide is also found in cigarette smoke.

Although it's always poisonous, carbon monoxide does have a very important use: inside a blast furnace, carbon monoxide combines with iron ore to extract the oxygen in the ore and make pure iron. WIthout carbon monoxide, we wouldn't have any steel!

I have carbon monoxide poisoning?

embraer178

So I tried to commit suicide in my car with the exhaust gas and once I started to feel dizzy, lose some of my hearing, and my vision got messed up (within about 1 minute), I freaked out and got of of the car, and turned it off. I went for a walk outside and I can't walk straight, my hearing is still partially gone, and I have a pounding head ache with some nausea. Will I be okay in a few hours or a day or can I still die? Because that was terrifying and I don't want to die.

Answer
Carbon monoxide poisoning occurs after enough inhalation of carbon monoxide (CO). Carbon monoxide is a toxic gas, but, being
colorless, odorless, tasteless, and non-
irritating, it is very difficult for people to detect.
Carbon monoxide is a product of incomplete combustion of organic matter with insufficient oxygen supply to enable complete oxidation to carbon dioxide (CO2) and is often produced in domestic or industrial settings by older motor
vehicles and other gasoline-powered tools,
heaters, and cooking equipment. Exposures at
100 ppm or greater can be dangerous to human health.[1] Symptoms of mild acute poisoning include headaches, vertigo, and flu-like effects; larger exposures can lead to significant toxicity of the central nervous system and heart, and even death. Following acute poisoning, long-term sequelae often occur. Carbon monoxide can also have severe effects on the fetus of a pregnant woman. Chronic exposure to low
levels of carbon monoxide can lead to depression, confusion, and memory loss. Carbon monoxide mainly causes adverse
effects in humans by combining with hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) in the blood. This prevents oxygen
binding to hemoglobin, reducing the oxygen-
carrying capacity of the blood, leading to hypoxia. Additionally, myoglobin and mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase are thought to be adversely affected. Carboxyhemoglobin
can revert to hemoglobin, but the recovery
takes time because the HbCO complex is fairly
stable. Treatment of poisoning largely consists of
administering 100% oxygen or providing hyperbaric oxygen therapy, although the optimum treatment remains controversial.[2] Oxygen works as an antidote as it increases the removal of carbon monoxide from
hemoglobin, in turn providing the body with
normal levels of oxygen. The prevention of
poisoning is a significant public health issue.
Domestic carbon monoxide poisoning can be
prevented by early detection with the use of household carbon monoxide detectors. Carbon monoxide poisoning is the most common type of fatal poisoning in many countries.[3] Historically, it was also commonly used as a
method to commit suicide, usually by deliberately inhaling the exhaust fumes of a
running car engine. Modern cars with
electronically controlled combustion and
catalytic converters produce so little carbon
monoxide that this is much less viable. Carbon
monoxide poisoning has also been implicated as the cause of apparent haunted houses.
Symptoms such as delirium and hallucinations
have led people suffering poisoning to think
they have seen ghosts or to believe their house is haunted.

HELP PLEASE!!!!Carbon Menoxide Detector wont stop beeping?

Cici

im dog sitting for my neighbors and thier dogs got sprayed by a skunk last night so i took intimidate action and kept them outside and washed them. They dont smell anymore (except for one dogs ear) but the smell came into the house so i used TONS of Glade and Febreeze spray and order eliminator for the carpets and furniture. About 1 hr late the Carbon Monoxide Detector went off and has not stopped so im wondering if from the sprays? is this possible and what should i do. I have the windows open, doors open and fans on. I plugged the detector back in and about 10 15 min later it went off again. Should i just wait it out alittle longer?

Answer
wow..you sprayed the crap out of their house! hahah.
I don't see how the sprays would produce carbon monoxide. Carbon monoxide usually is produced by leaving your car on, lawn mowers, charcoal, kerosene etc.
So I'm going to play it safe and say to air out the house and hope that its the febreeze etc that you had used and should un plug the detector and wait until the house is aired out some more.

My carbon monoxide detector beeps. It runs on ac so it's not a battery issue. It is 7 1/2 years old.?

Should I buy a new one or call the fire dept.?

Answer
open the detector take a can of air and blow out the dust

Selasa, 13 Mei 2014

furnace thermostat set off carbon monoxide detector?

smileyfish

Can a defective wall furnace thermostat set off a carbon monoxide detector? The batteries went dead in the thermostat, we replaced them immediately. Scared us to death!!!

Answer
A wall thermostat is an electrical switch ( or a set of switches) so no a faulty t-stat will not trip your CO detector. DO NOT HORSE AROUND, if the CO detector is going off you need to assume the worse and call the fire dept, or a furnace contractor and get the furnace and hot water heater checked for a CO leak. CO can kill you , and is tasteless, oderless and invisible.

Carbon monoxide detectors?

Ash1227

My carbon monoxide detector chirps once every min or so, the light will flash red once in awhile which means battery power is getting to it. Will it still detect carbon monoxide until my husband gets home tonight to replace the pack that goes in it, or should i be concerned?
I know there isn't a carbon monoxide leak because this has been doing it for a week when I turn it on. The instructions say it is a normal noise for when the battery is dieing, I want to know if it will still work while it is cherping.

Answer
Mine continues to operate while it is chirping to tell you that the battery is low. It is when it stops chirping that the unit will not and cannot detect carbon monoxide. At least that is what the instruction manual that came with mine says.

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