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Carbon monoxide alarm
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Scrumpyram
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Thanks. I am always a tad nervous when the grand kids are around!! We are a bit precious, it's taken along time to own one of these beautiesReally nice inside of the van....unfortunately we had to go for dark colours with two kids!
Scrumpyram
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Rarely cook inside tbh
The leaflet with my carbon monoxide alarm said to mount it about face height in van, I mounted it at sitting face height as thats where we usually are when either diesel heater is on or we are using stove etc.
How To Install And Test Carbon Monoxide Detectors - Which?
Fit your alarm high-up in the same room as the potential source of carbon monoxide, around 15cm from the ceiling and at least one metre away from boilers, cookers and fires. But make sure it's not directly above a source
Fit your alarm high-up in the same room as the potential source of carbon monoxide, around 15cm from the ceiling and at least one metre away from boilers, cookers and fires. But make sure it's not directly above a source
Ours is wired in and is always on. It is quite low though as you can see from the photo. To the left is where the diesel heater is. It has a test so I know it works, as in it makes a noise, but will I ever know if it detects CO. I am also tempted to get a normal one. Not that I am paranoid but one of my daughters friends at aged 14 died from CO when camping and I know someone else (him and his family) who came very close (rescued just in time) due to CO poisoning when camping. I have 3 in my house!
@Nige_g. You're right to be cautious as there are just too many horror stories out there to ignore it. My personal view is that during my working life, I came very close to meeting my maker on a number of occasions and reckon that I've been very lucky to get this far so I'm buggered if I'll succumb to poisoning from an invisible gas while I'm trying to have a quite kip in the van now that I'm a gentleman of leisure.
I know a fair bit about co poisoning. And I also know a bit about co detectors. In short cheap is not always good. People do not position them right and then have a cheap detector. Witch did a survey some time back and said the cheap ones were pretty much pointless. So spend £30 on one and be safe. As for the deadly co itself the body will gladly accept it and slight headache then tiredness then potentially game over. I have seen so many people skimp on these with none and no awareness of co poisoning. Remember wood coal gas all give off co. That’s my view anyway.
Is there a simple and safe way to check if the CO detector will activate in the presence of CO? As I say, I can press the button and it sounds. Great, the siren works, but does it work when I need it to?
Scrumpyram
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Wow. If that's not a compelling reason to fit an Alarm then I don't know what is.
I am afraid there is no surefire way. The trouble with hardwired ones is there is no shelf life and everything has a shelf life. 6yrs for a co alarm. With a date of replacement on them. I work for BG and I can get hold of some of there is an appetite for them. They are £30 but I am sure I can get them a bit cheaper and post out.
