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Carbon Monoxide Alarm Puzzle

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

 

  • Thanks for that info.

    The Ei208 10-year battery model with Audiolink for £26.00 at Screwfix & Toolstation, both just down the road from me looks a likely choice.

    Clive

  • mapj1: 
     

    The BSI limits on concentration and activation time for domestic alarms to be sold are reproduced in the carbon monoxide section of  this HSE report It is not clear cut, as the real problem is carboxy-haemoglobin in the blood, and that is not a convenient parameter to be  measured directly, so certain assumptions are made about the rate of build up in the blood over time at different gas concentrations.  Some folk will in reality be more or less susceptible. 

    And we do not want false alarms from normal background levels that may be 10ppm or more indoors when everything is working normally, with short bursts of a lot more when cooking and similar, and outdoor background levels in a town may be 4 or  5ppm , approaching twice that near busy roads at some times of day.

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    from that report

     

    Mike

    Be that as it may, but I am still dead.

    Z.