not to have a carbon monoxide detector?

[wolfhound]

There's a lot of stuff in the news about these at the moment. I don't have one. Maybe I should. Do you? Which one do you have?

We have 2 one in the kitchen/living room as the boiler is in the utility cupboard off there.
The other is in my room as we have an open coal fire

Will get one to be on the safe side then, thanks.

wolf really glad you posted this thread - bizarrely, I was actually about to start this exact same topic the other day after DP bought a CM monitor and I sneered at him for buying useless rubbish.

Looks like he was right - not that I intend to admit as much to him

I'm surprised at a the idea that a combi boiler doesn't need a CO monitor, it was the engineer that serviced ours that suggested we get an audible one.
She said ANY appliance that burns fuel should have an alarm near as a blocked vent, or chimney in the case of a coal fire, could cause a build up of CO

It was my own daft fault. Ex had left an industrial carbon monoxide tester in the living room as he thought something was wrong and nicked one from work. We broke up two days later and he moved out. I found something beeping behind the settee so flung it in the garden thinking it was more junk.

the reason you shouldn't need a CO detector with a combi, or any other modern boiler, is that it is room-sealed, and both the incoming air, and the outgoing fumes, are supposed to be vented only to the outside of the house.

However, boilers can go wrong, flues can be damaged or go rusty, fumes can blow in round ill-fitting windows or poor brickwork. Gas fires are more likely to be dangerous, especially flueless fires.

So, like a fire alarm, you only need it in case something goes wrong....

Thanks Piglet for the info.

Signet - I would probably have done the same. So many alerting devices and things to check and alarms going off, it is hard to keep on top of everything especially during emotional turmoil!

Brigadier - thanks!

He had neglected to tell me what it was so I just assumed it was junk!

When he heard he said "well why didnt the cm tester go off?" then when he came round it was in the garden "ohhh thats why!"

I can imagine doing that too. I am now a bit paranoid that we will have a CO leak before the man comes on Tues to fit the alarm...

get one has soon has you can i have one its a silient killer i know someone who died but not because they dident have a carbonmonixide dector because next door dident have one and it creeped in there house get one better to be safe than sorry.

We have one and I'm strongly recommending having one . In our last home that was a flat we actually had it once go off when there was a problem with the boiler . I was home luckily and it was daytime . I had a heart attac though and panicked. Shut off the boiler and called some special number that you call if you'd had a gas leak and they came and declaired the boiler unsafe . Then had a repairman fix it. Couldn't help thinking afterwards what if we'd not had one and had been asleep we could all be dead...

I have a friend who was nearly killed by CMP - definitely worth getting one. Builders blocked her flue, and she didn't know. Started feeling really sick and unwell. We've got one, I persuaded DH bu showing him the symptoms, which are not easily distinguished from the 'flu.

Two CO alarms installed today. Feel relieved. Thanks for all the prodding.