Do you need a carbon monoxide detector if you don’t have any gas running to your home?
our house is 100% electric, so my thought is that you do not need a carbon monoxide detector because this poisionous gas comes from malfunctioning gas equipment. we live in Arizona and all the houses around us have no gas lines either, so do we need a co detector?
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I would not purchase one if heat was electric.
do you want to be safe or are you just wasting our time
It is not only from malfunctioning gas equipment but from any scource of combustion,such as a BBQ or open fire or even a charcol grill,even such devices outside in front of an open window could cause problems inside the house. Care should always be taken with there portable devices.
Probably not, if you have no gas appliances of any kind in the home you can’t have carbon monoxide unless you park your car inside the house or something is wrong with the way your fireplace is venting. Make sure the damper on your fireplace is open when you use it. If you have a newer tighter house and you run alot of exhaust vents there is the possibility of insufficient oxygen for the fire and the production of carbon monoxide. Your smoke detectors would almost certainly be going off before this happens. Don’t leave your fire burning overnight unsupervised. Always have a smoke detector in every bedroom and in the hallways that service the bedrooms.