If you have a fuel burning appliance in your home (wood, propane, etc) you need a Carbon Monoxide alarm.
CO detectors will alert for both long exposures to low concentrations and short exposures to high concentrations. There are several deaths and many more hospitalizations yearly in BC due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The Fire Chiefs Assoc. of BC is lobbying the Province to make CO alarms mandatory in every structure with a CO exposure (garages, dwellings etc). If you don't have a CO alarm now, you soon will be required to have one.
But if you already have a carbon monoxide detector did you know that the gas sensors in CO alarms have a limited and indeterminable life span, typically two to five years. The test button on a CO alarm only tests the battery and circuitry, not the sensor. CO alarms should be tested with an external source of calibrated test gas, as recommended by the latest version of NFPA 720. Or replace your existing CO monitor with the newer technology CO alarms and put a date on it for renewal.
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