Husband thinks we don't need a carbon monoxide detector aibu?

[Jasmine29]

It's just part of a long list of things we don't agree on. I'm the sensible (boring!) practical one and he's the immature doesn't think things through one. He seems reluctant to spend any money on the house but will happily spend it on himself. We both work full time and I don't have a problem with him treating himself but whenever I suggest buying things for the house it always ends in an argument. We've lived together for 8 years and I'm fed up of this always being an issue. The carbon monoxide detector has just pushed be over the edge! I'll end up getting one myself (and fitting it, that's another thing, he doesn't do diy) but I feel so resentful 😐

I'm so sorry to hear about those who have been effected with carbon monoxide.

I've been on amazon and ordered 2. My gut was saying to just go for it.

Pinkyredrose you're not wrong. Cleaning duties are horrible chores that I make him suffer every week. It took me years to get him to learn to drive and I was his chauffeur (he now thanks me for it as he loves the freedom driving gives him). But he doesn't look after his car properly.

Maybe I'm a bit OCD with things, I certainly come across this way when put against him! They say opposites attract 😕

Just buy one and conceal it on top of a cupboard OP

Oh strangerhoes are you ok?

Freestanding ones are super cheap and last about ten years - I think mine was about £12 on amazon. Definitely definitely get one - people regularly die from this. And if you get a freestanding one you can take it on holiday too.

It's really a silent killer, you have no idea often even if you're awake, and even a well maintained boiler can turn on you. I don't mean to scare monger, but it's such a simple thing to buy one and be protected.

I'd say it's very important to have one. My midwife was telling me a non smoking patient tested very high on the co2 monitor, asked to test partner aswell. Turned out the boiler was leaking and it was quickly condemned.

My mum nearly died from an dodgy gas fire, she was an alcoholic so many of the symptoms would have been masked by her usual behaviour.

Absolute non negotiable along with smoke alarms.

strangerhoes why?

Cherrycokewinning I don’t have one btw- unless I had reason to think I had a requirement (rental for example) I wouldn’t particularly go out of my way to have one- it’s not essential or anything.
Do you have the same cavilier attitude to other aspects of you and your families safety. Lots of safety things are not essential until you discover, to late, that you needed one.

strangerhoes

OP is sorted. Do you want to chat?

I wouldn't even have discussed this, just got one.

Anyone who has gas or something that burns (log burner) needs a detector. I have my boiler serviced annually, I still have an alarm. A year is a long time.

Anyway, thanks for this thread, it's reminded me that I'd been meaning to switch energy suppliers and now I have!

Like what sirgawin? It’s none of your business how I look after my family BTW.

I don’t have one btw- unless I had reason to think I had a requirement (rental for example) I wouldn’t particularly go out of my way to have one- it’s not essential or anything

I always wondered why they put seatbelts in a car. Not really planning on having an accident or anything

Strangerhoes sorry you're feeling that way

We changed our (open) gas fire because our detector showed a low but abnormal CO2 reading. I never begrudge money spent on appropriate safety measures.

To anyone considering buying one please buy an alarm one. If you are sleeping and there is a leak you will not see the coloured disc change, you need the alarm to wake you.

Having been slightly carbon monoxide poisoned in a dodgy student rental property about 25 years ago I can tell you that it is terrifying to think we could have been killed. We just felt unwell and visitors to our flat felt unwell.

I was lucky that I wasn't that badly affected, my boyfriend was hospitalised.

Please, everyone, if you have a gas appliance, even regularly serviced ones, buy an alarmed detector.

Stop being such a drama queen peppa

I don't have one I get my boiler serviced annually

So do I. I didn’t notice when a group of little fucks pulled out my boiler flue. The boiler dude was white when he told me and put my boiler out of action until it was fixed.

Stupid reason not to have a detector!

I suspect @strangerhoes may be referring to the earlier post where a PP incorrectly referred to carbon monoxide as CO2 which is in fact carbon dioxide...

strangerhoes

I know you aren't alright, I hope you have some support.
As MrsTP say's OP is sorted now, if talking will help.

Or I may be completely off mark there  Apologies if I am and hope you're ok @strangerhoes

Not getting one could mean never waking up again

CO2 is carbon dioxide, we breathe it out , breathing oxygen in.

CO is carbon monoxide. Its poisonous, it binds onto haemoglobin instead of oxygen.
CO can be produced by incomplete combustion of any fossil fuel, so if you have
a gas boiler,
gas cooker,
gas hob
coal fire,
wood burner,
bbq,
calor gas fire,
propane cooker ,
paraffin stove
Camping stove
And even an external oil boiler
etc
you need a CO monitor.
It can seep through gaps in walls etc
A blocked chimney, clogged flue, bringing a bbq into a tent can cause fatal build up of CO

Please get one you cannot see or smell it and it is so deadly. Maybe trade in your dh for the co2 monitor..just saying.

Yes sorry for my fail on the CO2 name! It's because my dad interchangeably calls it many things (as he does with most things) but fact remains they still nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning due to building works error.