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Carbon Monoxide Alarm Puzzle

AncientMariner

Recently found that the Carbon Monoxide Alarm located in the cellar of our village hall, where the CH gas boiler is located, had failed.

Contacted both the servicing company for the boiler and the company which services the fire alarm and fire extinguishers and both said NO, just buy one from Screwfix etc and fit it yourself.

Since both would likely have been doing their main job at the same time, why the “we don't want the job” attitude?

Originally I had thought of just buying one etc, but thought about the liability aspect since I am not insured. Certainly at sea testing and repairing fire and smoke alarms was within my remit, but was there as an employee, not a contractor.  Are these two companies thinking on similar lines?   (Or as my wife just said, they don't want to go down into the cellar…)

It would be simple enough to purchase a new one and fit it in the same place as the failed one.

Good idea or not?

Clive

 

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    Thanks Mike.

    I found that the existing one had failed when on running my fingers over it, my fingers were wet due leaking batteries. So rather than mess around cleaning contacts etc, thought the best option was replacement. Then H&S and liability came to mind and that's what prompted my post.

    The existing one is mounted on a wooden plinth on which is also mounted a Munsen Ring to support the 35 mm copper gas pipe. It is about 4 foot up the cellar wall, so an easy job to replace with a decent make with long life sealed in batteries.

    I just needed some reassurance that simply doing the common sense thing would not have me locked in the cellar by the authorities!

    (For some reason I thought that there was a reference in the sea shanty to locking the drunken sailor in the chain locker, but I was mistaken…)

    edit to add that in the Fire Angel notes, that BS EN 50292 recommends that an alarm is NOT fitted in an enclosed space.  Seems strange, especially in the proposed location. I see no harm in installing one in the cellar.

    Clive

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    Thanks Mike.

    I found that the existing one had failed when on running my fingers over it, my fingers were wet due leaking batteries. So rather than mess around cleaning contacts etc, thought the best option was replacement. Then H&S and liability came to mind and that's what prompted my post.

    The existing one is mounted on a wooden plinth on which is also mounted a Munsen Ring to support the 35 mm copper gas pipe. It is about 4 foot up the cellar wall, so an easy job to replace with a decent make with long life sealed in batteries.

    I just needed some reassurance that simply doing the common sense thing would not have me locked in the cellar by the authorities!

    (For some reason I thought that there was a reference in the sea shanty to locking the drunken sailor in the chain locker, but I was mistaken…)

    edit to add that in the Fire Angel notes, that BS EN 50292 recommends that an alarm is NOT fitted in an enclosed space.  Seems strange, especially in the proposed location. I see no harm in installing one in the cellar.

    Clive

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