carbon monoxide test yourself

[green thing]

Thought I would share this with you.
This is the second one I've found this year


The photo shows the underside of bedroom room floorboards around the chimney
A half brick has fallen out between the ceiling and floorboards the into the chimney allowing
the flue gasses to escape between the floor joists
Then into the bedroom.

The bedroom floor was covered with hardboard with a rubber backed carpet on top

Any smoke test if carried out would not have shown up

For £15.00 you can buy a carbon monoxide alarm
Battery powered which can be carried from room to room

FIREANGEL CO-9B CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM CO DETECTOR BNIB EASY TO INSTALL 85DB | eBay

The other one was a customer who said see could smell perfume in her bedroom and cooking smells
It turn out to be her neighbours open gas fire chimney leaking into her bedroom through party wall
the neighbour very rarely use the gas fire !

Do not rely on a gas safe certificate

[green thing]

photo


Second go at photo

[Potstubsdustbins]

That depends on just who issued the home owners/landlords safety record.

The biggest problem in these hard times is folk who for monetary reasons don't have their appliances checked annually.

Potty

[Verinda]

We got a carbon monoxide detector after a family friends teenage son died and his daughter nearly died from carbon monoxide poisoning. The boiler had been serviced but it's an old house and there was a leak. It's scary because there's no obvious smell.

Just wanted to add that their dad has been campaigning ever since, trying to encourage more people to have them installed.

[salome2001]

ebay/amazon has twin packs of detectors for about £20

[alldigging]

Ring your local fire brigade and see if they do a home visit where they'll fit one for free..
Not on the 999 though!

[veggiechicken]

My fire brigade fitted 2 smoke detectors - but not carbon monoxide ones. It was exciting though because they arrived in a fire engine and I got to look inside it

[Sheneval]

So tell us what does the inside of a smoke detector look like apart from a battery and a couple of wires?

[veggiechicken]

^^^^ that made I chortle
The gallant lads also told me to call them when the battery needed replacing as they didn't think I should stand on a ladder (at my age)

[Mikey]

Why do we become big kids around a fire engine?

I never get the same feeling about an ambulance or a police car, but a fire engine......cool.

[veggiechicken]

I nearly bought one once, at a car auction...........I waved to friends across the room..........I'd never been to an auction before...............

[Mikey]

Now that I would have loved to see..

I wonder if its all the shiny bits and bobs. really we are just all magpies.