Are carbon monoxide detectors required if your stove is electric & you use Radiant Heat from a boiler?
There is a new law concerning CO detectors. This may be a dumb question, but are these required if you do not utilize gas for anything? My lights, and cooking are electric, and I use radiant heat, where the floor baseboards are heated from a boiler in a large apartment building.Thanks.
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you probably don’t need one, but it would be a good idea to have a CO detector anyway because you live in an apartment. someone else in your apartment building may have a fire or something and because CO is invisible and has no scent, you wouldn’t even realize you were breathing in the poisonous fumes.
its a gray area the problem is is the heater and hot water tank heated by gas?are they vented thru a chimminy?if not then no you don’t need a co detector
If you don’t have any gas in your home then you aren’t making any carbon monoxide. What you need to find out is if the vent stack from the apartment boiler is in anyway connected with your apartment ventillation system. If the answer is no, then the only carbon monoxide that might be generated in your apartment is if you smoke cigarettes.