Check Your Carbon Monoxide Detectors, Bros

Dwight Schrute

Dwight Schrute

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This morning, wife wakes me up at 5:45am because alarms are going off in our house. Within a few seconds I realize it's the CO2 detectors. One in our laundry room and another at the bottom of our stairs (which lead up to our bedrooms).

I could feel thick air, but no smell. Immediately began opening windows and our doors to let in fresh air. I grabbed our kids, put them in the car, and had my wife drive themselves over to my inlaws while I stayed behind to clear it out of the house.

When the alarms wouldn't shut off after trying to dissipate the air, I called 911 and before I could finish my sentence the dispatcher said, "We're sending help to you immediately." Well, immediately was 15 minutes later with lights and sirens on.

Before she left the house, my wife discovered that she had left the stove on with no flame. Since it's been cold for SoCal standards lately, we had all the windows completely closed, causing a nice build-up of CO2 upstairs and downstairs.

I am grateful that our handyman noticed 3 months ago that we had no CO2 detectors and had them installed. I am freaked out thinking about what would have happened had we not had alarms installed.

The dizziness and shortness of breath that accompanied this was not fun, but dying would have been worse. Please get CO2 detectors put outside your bedrooms today.

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I'm glad you're okay, but you should really do what I do.

I frequently lock myself in the garage and turn on the car. I do this to build up my CO2 tolerance. I can now last about 2 hours before I get dizzy. Pretty soon I'll be immune.
 
Damn man. Glad everyone is ok. I bought one of those talking ones a year back. I feel a lot better now.
 
Opening the windows in So Cal isn't really "airing things out".

In all seriousness though, glad to hear everyone is all right. The other thing you should look into is a radon detector. Not many people have them installed, though just like CO2 detectors, they should.
 
CO2 is carbon dioxide. You mean CO. ;)

Leaving a stove on with no flame shouldn't release CO, it should release methane (or propane/butane), which would probably smell because of the mercaptan they put in it... unless there was some combustion going on.

CO is released by incomplete combustion of gas, rather than no combustion. The most typical cause is a furnace or gas fire which isn't venting properly. So.... get all your natural gas appliances checked, because unless the stove was partially burning, the CO is coming from somewhere else.

Anyway, good move on the CO detectors, and glad to hear you got out ok.
 
This morning, wife wakes me up at 5:45am because alarms are going off in our house.
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Glad you're ok, but you need to cut down on the drinking if your wife needs to wake you to tell you there's an alarm going off
 
Got one on every floor...can never be too careful.

Had a tiny leak when I moved into my new house but luckily it was very tiny and just took half a turn to seal the pipe...scary to think that the previous owners had no idea.
 
medicalhumor said:
Glad you're ok, but you need to cut down on the drinking if your wife needs to wake you to tell you there's an alarm going off
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He's not drinking enough if his wife can still wake him up. He should get Jefferys ebook "A Noobs Guide To Drinking".
 
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