Carbon Monoxide Monitors

[Horsemad]

Our boiler is situated outside in a recess with a door on it; kind of like a coal shed sort of thing. Should we have a carbon monoxide monitor for it? It is oil fired if that makes any difference...

yes. any boiler/stove/oven that has a fire requires one.

Right, better get one sorted tomorrow, thank you!

Cripes, I would have thought the risk of asphyxiation would be minimal in that location!

carbon monoxide can get in through the tiniest of gaps...

Read this: www.fireservice.co.uk/safety/carbon-monoxide

Thank you - scary but essential reading.

Yeah, makes me wonder if we should have one. We are in a rented house, but it's only 6 years old and obviously has had it's annual gas safety check.

Well I'm definitely getting one, my oh sp clever DH says we don't need one - this is the man who said we didn't need smoke detectors 'cause 'we don't smoke'

I wouldn't mind but he's an engineer, so he's not bloody stupid.

AND... the flippin' boiler has never been serviced

Everyone should have one unless they have nothing at all that could possibly produce CO. Oneofmyturns your boiler might have an annual check but how would you know if it went wrong the week after the check? Or the month before it is due? It doesn't have a neon sign saying "I'm producing CO now".

I bought a CO detector and placed it on a high shelf in the hallway near my bedroom door. I then read that because CO is heavier than air they should be positioned low. I asked the British Gas engineer when he came to do the service and he said its position on the shelf was fine because they're so sensitive.

Even if you don't have any appliances which could emit, unless you live in a detached house you should have one. Many people have been affected from leaks from neighbours properties for example as like someone said it can get through the tiniest of gaps