Question on gas alarm

magicbus wrote:
Interesting question. From an article on gas alarms:

“If you buy a residential gas detector system, make sure you get the right one, O'Shea said. Natural gas customers should purchase a detector that can sense methane gas, while propane customers should purchase a propane detector.”

So it would appear that a propane detector such as we have in our RVs would not detect methane, which is a component of sewer gas.

Dave

That may be dated information. It’s hard to even find a unit that doesn’t claim to detect both propane and methane. My suspicion is that they can only label them with a particular gas if it was tested by a standards organization for that gas but that most of them in general detect flammable gases and vapors regardless of the label.