Carbon Monoxide Alarms

[TRADITIONAL LOGGERS]

I am sure most on here that use woodstoves have a smoke alarm (which has batteries and works) but how many have the vital carbon monoxide alarm?

 

There are a large number of people who die from this and a close friend had a scare this week.

 

Alarms should be in each room/building/shed that has a combustion product. Gas Cooker/Gas Boiler/Woodstove/Woodchip Boiler. It's important to site the alarm as on the instructions to work.

 

[born2trot]

Good shout Trad, I played football with a guy that died from this . Very,Very important.

[GardenKit]

We once had a multi fuel stove which we kept in at night with anthracite or similar. We had good double glazing. This was in the living room ( thats 'lounge' to the posh)

 

The kitchen had a powerful extractor fan over the electric stove.

 

One morning, the wife preparing toast in the kitchen, the multifuel stove still banked in, and me outside filling the log basket.

 

I came back in to find the wife and kids slumped in the kitchen, almost unconcious, flung open windows and doors. Everyone eventually made a full recovery

 

The windows in the house were all closed and the extractor fan must have lowered the air pressure in the house and reversed the flow of fire fumes in the flu as it was the only way in for replacement air, filling the house with carbon monoxide.

 

We are lucky to still be here, a CO alarm would have alerted us earlier.

[niftysteve]

I am sure most on here that use woodstoves have a smoke alarm (which has batteries and works) but how many have the vital carbon monoxide alarm?

 

There are a large number of people who die from this and a close friend had a scare this week.

 

Alarms should be in each room/building/shed that has a combustion product. Gas Cooker/Gas Boiler/Woodstove/Woodchip Boiler. It's important to site the alarm as on the instructions to work.

 

 

they are one of the items that i have to install with a stove to be able to sign it off

[likeitorlumpit]

they are one of the items that i have to install with a stove to be able to sign it off

 

It is now but a couple of years ago it wasn't- Maybe a check round of older stoves and site the alarm in the rooms not covered.

The extractor warning is very relevant with a lot of people putting wood stoves in family/kitchen rooms- It's a warning I will spread around my household

CO = silent killer

[GardenKit]

It is now but a couple of years ago it wasn't- Maybe a check round of older stoves and site the alarm in the rooms not covered.

The extractor warning is very relevant with a lot of people putting wood stoves in family/kitchen rooms- It's a warning I will spread around my household

CO = silent killer

Yes, even though we now have oil fired, so no risk of CO, we always open the kitchen window before putting on the extractor. It is so powefull that it will pull doors open if not latched fully just to get replacement air. If the window is opened far enough the fan will pull it shut. Little wonder it pulled air down the flu.

[Tom D]

Interesting, we don't have one, I had always assumed that it would only be really necessary with solid fuel as this would b more likely to release odourless fumes. wood smoke/ fumes stink so you'd probably know about it.

 

I should get one though, why take the chance.....

[djbobbins]

I put a co detector and a smoke detector up in our utility / boiler room when we moved into the house. I never thought much of it until recently, when I had my trooper parked up outside the back door for a few weeks.

 

After about 30 seconds of running the engine, the co detector started going off. It's never sounded before and I was pleased to know it is working. Made me think very carefully about running petrol engines in any area without really good ventilation, and definitely will be adhering to the regs and fitting a co detector when we upgrade the stove this summer.