Quick CO monitor query

"Move the CO alarm and place in another location prior to performing any of the following:

staining or stripping wood floors or furniture

painting

wall papering

using adhesives

Storing the unit in a plastic bag during the above projects will protect the sensor from permanent damage."

So it is possible to just bork the sensor.

I wonder how many people read and remember this.

Cheers

Dave R

The original CO detectors were extremely prone to damage and rarely lasted longer than a year in house with typical usage of household chemicals. They have got a lot better, but are still very prone to being killed by solvent vapours, airosol contents, etc.

They don't half give you a start when they go off ...

I guess that although the alarm might only have sensed 40ppm (or whatever trigger level they use), it's possible that a different room may be at a higher concentration and the occupants already somewhere around crossing the boundary between sleeping and coma.

Certainly not foreign decorators who painted a friend of mines smoke alarm the same colour as the ceiling. Brian

On reflection this also begs the question - what do you do with a mains CO alarm when you are decorating?

Cheers

Dave R

If it's like our mains smoke-and-heat alarm set - you press the button on the side and slide it out of its mount.

I also hung on to one of the shower hat things they supplied as new to keep them clean in new houses. We had a total rewire, and it was messy.

Andy