How many CO monitors do you have?

[pacificrules]

In honor of our carbon monoxide alarm waking us up at 1:45 the last two nights (not 'going off', but beeping because apparently it's dying), I'm curious....

[aurora]

I think the recommendation is still one per household, right?

[pacificrules]

Jan 3, 2014 12:58:05 GMT -5 aurora said:

I think the recommendation is still one per household, right?

I have heard one per house, but have also heard one per floor. Just curious what others had.

[pacificrules]

Jan 3, 2014 12:59:05 GMT -5 RockNVoll said:

Both of our just died recently too...and the beeping was freaking LOUD.

So we have two, one on each floor.

Uh...yeah! Not a fun way to wake up TWO nights in a row. 

[dbsk8dance]

One in the kids room.

[7costanza]

We have one in each bedroom, the living room and basement. It sounds excessive, but when we bought smoke detectors we just got the dual smoke/CO ones. When we bought our house it only had one smoke detector.

[dr.girlfriend]

One per floor (but not basement)

[Deleted]

We have 5.

[Susie]

1, in the foyer.

The two most likely sources of CO are in the garage and the basement. The CO monitor is near both. That makes more sense to me than positioning them near bedrooms since you wouldn't smell it if you were awake anyway.

[raangoli]

We have one per floor.

[Willis Jackson]

One per floor. So, two.

[Deleted]

One above the bottom of the basement stairs and one on our main floor.

[mainelyfoolish]

We have one on each floor above ground. If we had a CO leak from the furnace in the basement, the first floor detector should go off first, but we have another detector upstairs near the bedrooms as backup or in cases we don't hear the downstairs one.

[magdala]

We have one per floor including the basement (granite basement)

[ladyk]

Code here is one per floor. I have one downstairs and one upstairs.

[rubytue]

Zero. My house is all electric (and my bill will hate the next few days), with no attached garage. The fireplace is the only possible source of CO, and we rarely use it.

We had 3 in our last house. One outside the bedrooms, one outside the garage, and one (plug in) near the pellet stove. That was an older house with attached garage a oil heat.

[MixedBerryJam]

One in the basement next to the furnace, one in the bedroom area.

[mlvmd]

We have two, one per floor we actually use. We should probably get another for the basement even though we don't really use it.

[pinkroses]

I have one for each floor (basement, first floor, second floor) plus an extra that I bought that tells you the highest reading for the last 24 hours, which is also on the first floor.  I freaked out and bought that one when one of ours started dying so it would do the warning beeps, and I was getting headaches all the time, so I was paranoid that I was getting a low-level CO exposure.  I like it though and am glad I have it.

[demelza]

Two, one on each floor. None in the basement, I would buy one for the basement if I had more money. They say it is more important to have where you sleep anyways though.

[dragonfly08]

None.

We have no gas service to the house; it's all electric. There is an attached garage but we rarely idle the car in there, and we don't use the fireplace much (plus we keep it well maintained, so we know the chimney is clear and the flue works properly).

[megstoo]

None. we have all electric and no fireplace.

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2014 13:43:28 GMT -5 dragonfly08 said:

None.

We have no gas service to the house; it's all electric. There is an attached garage but we rarely idle the car in there, and we don't use the fireplace much (plus we keep it well maintained, so we know the chimney is clear and the flue works properly).

I'm sorry, but you're an idiot if you think that a well-maintained chimney is foolproof. Or if it is impossible for the garage not to be a source - people have turned their car on, forgot something, ran back inside, got distracted & had carbon monoxide in their house. It may not kill an adult at that dose, but it could seriously harm or kill a child or pet.

Carbon monoxide is colourless and odourless. You have no way of knowing if your chimney is leaking CO2 or not.

Buy a damn detector.

[Deleted]

A bunch, our smoke detectors are all combo units for CO and smoke.

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2014 13:41:21 GMT -5 pinkroses said:

I have one for each floor (basement, first floor, second floor) plus an extra that I bought that tells you the highest reading for the last 24 hours, which is also on the first floor.  I freaked out and bought that one when one of ours started dying so it would do the warning beeps, and I was getting headaches all the time, so I was paranoid that I was getting a low-level CO exposure.  I like it though and am glad I have it.

I have one of these too and I love it. It was registering a low reading once, and it turns out we were getting a bit of "release" from the fireplace so we had it serviced. It wasn't enough to make anyone sick, but over time it could have.

We have two built-in on the ceiling that are with the smoke detectors,  but given that carbon monoxide actually sinks, we also have an additional two that are closer to the ground (one per level of the home).

[Deleted]

Jan 3, 2014 13:04:16 GMT -5 Susie said:

1, in the foyer.

The two most likely sources of CO are in the garage and the basement. The CO monitor is near both. That makes more sense to me than positioning them near bedrooms since you wouldn't smell it if you were awake anyway.

You can't smell carbon monoxide. FYI. This is why it is so dangerous & deadly - the alarm is your only way of knowing you have a problem, particularly when sleeping. During the daytime it is possible you would get the headache & vomiting & figure out what is wrong, but most people wouldn't automatically equate that with carbon monoxide. They would think flu, or stomach virus, etc.

[sh10]

We have one in the basement and one on the second floor near the bedrooms. My family would have died when I was about 12 if we didn't have one, so I am a huge advocate for detectors. The detectors do eventually die, we just replaced one that was about six years old.

[countthestars]

4, per code. We have one on our main floor, one in the bonus room over the garage and two near the bedrooms (code here says that they need to be within X feet of bedrooms and ours are too far apart for one detector to cover all of the rooms). They are all combination smoke/CO detectors.

[ddi741]

We have one on the first floor, one in the basement and one in each bedroom.

[ewall]

Two. One is newer, the other one came with the house so no idea how old it is. New one is on main floor directly above our gas utilities in the basement. Old one is upstairs near the heat pump/electric furnace so I'm not too concerned with it.

We had a natural gas detector, but it was too damn sensitive so we ditched it. Ironically, the one time we had a gas leak was when we didn't have it plugged in. But the smell alone made it pretty clear that we had a gas leak.