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Carbon Monoxide Detectors

NickNack — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:03:33 GMT

I have a friend who had just gotten in bed the other night when her carbon monixide detector went off. She took her dog and went outside and called 911. The fire department came and turned off her gas and kept measuring the carbon monoxide levels in her house until it was safe for her to go back in. Fortunately it was a warm night and she did spend the night in her house with the windows open.

The next day she found out the gas leak was in her fireplace. It was about 20 years old. The carbon monoxide detector really saved her life. I just wanted to remind everyone that if you have gas you should have at least one detector on each floor of your house and also in your bedroom.

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WORKING GAL — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:09:15 GMT

We have two of them on the first floor and one upstairs in a very small hallway that the three bedrooms share. They are smoke/carbon monoxide combos. Invaluable.

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Annabellethecat66 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:19:37 GMT

I have one upstairs but I also have one connected to ADT, so I'm covered.

I park my car inside the garage (in the house).

Cars these days are so quiet, sometimes it's easy to leave them on and not realize it.

I keep the radio on so that helps to remind me also to turn off the car.

My car is the kind where you don't use a key to start it, but the key needs to be somewhere in the vacinity.

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ccassaday — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:26:49 GMT

We had one in our old house. Our new one has one on the main level and one in the basement.

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NickNack — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:45:05 GMT

@Annabellethecat66wrote:
I have one upstairs but I also have one connected to ADT, so I'm covered.

I park my car inside the garage (in the house).

Cars these days are so quiet, sometimes it's easy to leave them on and not realize it.

I keep the radio on so that helps to remind me also to turn off the car.

My car is the kind where you don't use a key to start it, but the key needs to be somewhere in the vacinity.

I park my car in the garage, too, but don't think I would ever leave it running. I always take my purse with me in the house, and the keys are in my purse. My car would beep if I got out of the car with the keys and it was still running. Also, like you, I always have the radio on in the car.

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SilleeMee — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:46:21 GMT

I have the kind with 10-year batteries so I never need to worry about them.

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Its Me LuLuBelle2 — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 23:54:08 GMT

Many years ago when my daughter and SIlL bought their first home I was shocked there were no smoke or carbon monoxide detectors in the house. I would have thought banks lending money would have insisted upon them. Anyway, hubby and I bought two of each good ones and gave them to them as a housewarming gift (and my husband installed them). Not sexy, but definitely practical and it gave US peace of mind. It always breaks my heart when I read a family has died due to carbon monoxide poisoning as it's so needless.

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Annabellethecat66 — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:24:31 GMT

@NickNack If there's one thing I've learned is that I never say never.

I never thought I'd live to be 71, but I'm still here.

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SXMGirl — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 02:16:59 GMT

We have one on every floor. I am also reading that you should take them on vacation, not so much for hotels, but for rental homes. This came to light after that family died in Mexico last week. I never thought about taking one with me, but I now have one already packed in my bag.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:16:46 GMT

@SXMGirlwrote:
We have one on every floor. I am also reading that you should take them on vacation, not so much for hotels, but for rental homes. This came to light after that family died in Mexico last week. I never thought about taking one with me, but I now have one already packed in my bag.

I heard that suggestion last week and wondered how many people would go to that much trouble, and of the few that did, how many would remember to bring it back home?

I sleep with my window open 365 nights a year, even when it got down to -14° so don't worry about it much.

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SXMGirl — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 11:54:14 GMT

@Kachina624, Like you, I heard it and since I stay in B&B's quite often, I thought it might be a good idea to pack one, just in case. I hope that I remember to bring it back; but, if not, then someone else will be able to use it. Luckily, they are quite inexpensive for such a life-saving item.

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FranandZoe — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:52:45 GMT

I just bought two - one for each floor - combo carbon mono/explosive gas.

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Lipstickdiva — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:32:14 GMT

@Kachina624wrote:

@SXMGirlwrote:
We have one on every floor. I am also reading that you should take them on vacation, not so much for hotels, but for rental homes. This came to light after that family died in Mexico last week. I never thought about taking one with me, but I now have one already packed in my bag.

I heard that suggestion last week and wondered how many people would go to that much trouble, and of the few that did, how many would remember to bring it back home?

I sleep with my window open 365 nights a year, even when it got down to -14° so don't worry about it much.

Just because you sleep with a window open doesn't mean you cannot get carbon minoxide poisoning. The gas can linger in your bedroom, it doesn't necessarily go to the window and out. Plus that open bedroom window won't do much for the rest of your house.

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Lipstickdiva — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:33:36 GMT

@SXMGirlwrote:
@Kachina624, Like you, I heard it and since I stay in B&B's quite often, I thought it might be a good idea to pack one, just in case. I hope that I remember to bring it back; but, if not, then someone else will be able to use it. Luckily, they are quite inexpensive for such a life-saving item.

@SXMGirl, I would never have thought about that until l heard the suggestion after that Mexico incident.

And while I think it's a good idea, I'm skeptical about what really happened with that family. There are so many problems in Mexico now, even in tourist areas, I have my doubts.

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Eileen in Virginia — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:35:07 GMT

@Kachina624wrote:

@SXMGirlwrote:
We have one on every floor. I am also reading that you should take them on vacation, not so much for hotels, but for rental homes. This came to light after that family died in Mexico last week. I never thought about taking one with me, but I now have one already packed in my bag.

I heard that suggestion last week and wondered how many people would go to that much trouble, and of the few that did, how many would remember to bring it back home?

I sleep with my window open 365 nights a year, even when it got down to -14° so don't worry about it much.

We take 2 with us when we rent a house at the Outer Banks. It’s really no trouble, since my husband bought them specifically for vacation. He has a bag of items like this that he keeps packed for our vacation, so he just grabs that bag when we’re packing the car. At the rental house, we keep them on a table or counter, so they’re easy to see when we’re packing to go home. If we missed them, they aren’t that expensive, so we’d just get another one.

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viva923 — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:31:23 GMT

have 3 carbon detectors in my house and tested weekly when I clean

have smoke detectors in every room of the house and checked every week when I clean that room.

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kivah — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:19:36 GMT

@Annabellethecat66

I'm also still here - and I'm shocked. I'm 77 yrs old - and a 12 yr cancer survivor. My mom died of the same cancer in 1982 when she was only 65 yrs old.

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kivah — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 03:24:47 GMT

A family of 4 - parents and 2 young children from Iowa ---- died a couple of weeks ago vacationing in a condo in Mexico of carbon monoxide poisoning.

I bought my house brand new in 2001 and I have smoke alarms --- and realized that my previous homes didn't have smoke alarms. Never occurred to me.

1-1/2 yrs ago, around 6AM, I was in my house - sleeping with my little dog - and my smoke alarms went off - it was blasting. I called the Fire Dept. and they removed a few batteries and stopped the alarms. The smoke alarms were 15 yrs old - and they told me to change them every 10 yrs - didn't know that.

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NickNack — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 11:06:24 GMT

@kivah wrote:
A family of 4 - parents and 2 young children from Iowa ---- died a couple of weeks ago vacationing in a condo in Mexico of carbon monoxide poisoning.
I bought my house brand new in 2001 and I have smoke alarms --- and realized that my previous homes didn't have smoke alarms. Never occurred to me.
1-1/2 yrs ago, around 6AM, I was in my house - sleeping with my little dog - and my smoke alarms went off - it was blasting. I called the Fire Dept. and they removed a few batteries and stopped the alarms. The smoke alarms were 15 yrs old - and they told me to change them every 10 yrs - didn't know that.

@kivah You must have 10 year fire alarms. Many of them are not. They say to change your smoke detector batteries once a year unless you have the 10 year type.

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patbz — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 01:01:05 GMT

I had a co worker who lost her sister (and sisters family) to carbon monoxide poisoning. Once I was sleepy by wood burning fireplace (but doused it); at the time I thought it could be carbon monoxide (room wasn't well ventilated); point is you need to be vigilant!