Comments on: Can you get carbon monoxide poisoning from an electric heater or only gas?

By: Blue Eyes

Blue Eyes — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:37:07 +0000

Carbon Monoxide is only produced by gas. Not electric. Do you have a gas line some where else in your house. Like a stove, fire place, water heater. If so, they can produce Carbon Monoxide. If your house is all electric, you don't have anything to worry about unless you park your car in the garage with the garage door shut and the car running. lol

By: Diane S

Diane S — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:37:07 +0000

Gas only

By: Ben D

Ben D — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:37:07 +0000

Only a problem with gas

By: YDoncha_Blowme

YDoncha_Blowme — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:37:07 +0000

LOL. Of course not. Electric heaters dont expel waste gases out of a tailpipe… The only thing you might get is the smell of burning dust when you first turn it on after a long summer…

By: spaceman

spaceman — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:37:07 +0000

……………….. GAS……………….. but there are other precautions to be taken with ele. heater …………….. its always fire hazard……………

By: Jonathan R

Jonathan R — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:37:07 +0000

Carbon monoxide is a byproduct of combustion (burning), which is how gas heaters produce heat. Electric heaters pass large amounts of electricity through wires, causing them to get hot (like a clothes iron, if you opened it up). Because of how they work, electric heaters do not produce carbon monoxide if they are operating normally. If anything goes wrong that would produce carbon monoxide in an electric heater, it would also produce smoke and make it obvious something was wrong. What would be a far greater danger with the electric heaters is if water spilled on them. Because of the large amounts of electricity they use, they could become a shock hazard (but most likely the fuses or circuit breakers would trip and shut it off). The biggest problem with them during normal operation is that because of how they are usually designed, they are not as efficient as gas units and therefore more costly to operate. This is also usually true of things like gas and electric stoves, clothes driers, water heaters, etc. If you are concerned about carbon monoxide, anything that uses combustion to create heat or other useful energy can produce carbon monoxide. I hope this helps.