carbon monoxide detectors ??
My old trailer has a not-so-old suburban furnace, i forget the model, it looks pretty fresh and it is all electronic. Wife is concerned about carbon monoxide. Never worried before because we never...
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Our neighbors son is an EMT. He's been to way to many CO poisoning episodes, and almost got hit by one himself during a rescue and barely made it out even knowing the symptoms.
suffice it to say if CO hits you while your sleeping chances of you waking up again are virtually ZERO. Even awake, often you won't realize the symptoms till to late.
While furnaces rarely result in CO related failures, it can and does happen and in a small enclosed area it can be deadly very quickly.
personally I will NEVER EVER be inside a TT when the furnace, WH or stove/oven is expected to be running without a working CO detector, period. The risk isn't worth it.
unlike smoke detectors, they rarely false alarm. Ours has a CO readout. It has alarmed, with a readout showing a problem. The cause.... another camper next to us running a generator upwind from us with the exhaust pointed at our open bedroom window.
We couldn't smell exhaust fumes, but it was putting out enough CO to alarm. Once relocated, CO levels dropped to near 0. Glad I had a working detector.
suffice it to say if CO hits you while your sleeping chances of you waking up again are virtually ZERO. Even awake, often you won't realize the symptoms till to late.
While furnaces rarely result in CO related failures, it can and does happen and in a small enclosed area it can be deadly very quickly.
personally I will NEVER EVER be inside a TT when the furnace, WH or stove/oven is expected to be running without a working CO detector, period. The risk isn't worth it.
unlike smoke detectors, they rarely false alarm. Ours has a CO readout. It has alarmed, with a readout showing a problem. The cause.... another camper next to us running a generator upwind from us with the exhaust pointed at our open bedroom window.
We couldn't smell exhaust fumes, but it was putting out enough CO to alarm. Once relocated, CO levels dropped to near 0. Glad I had a working detector.
