Please Read - Important PSA!!!

[wencit]

Oh my goodness! Thank you for the reminder. I'm so glad that everything turned out OK for you.

[DietCokeLover]

Sorry for your experience, but thank you for that important reminder.

[Mommy_Mea]

Scary! Glad everything turned out okay!

[jenfromnj]

Glad everyone is OK--how scary!

[liz]

We recently had all of our smoke and co2 detectors changed because we were having problems with our alarm system. We found out that you should have them changed every 7-10 years because they could malfunction. Ours were so old (10 years) that we didn't know that they now TALK to you. We now have at least 1 smoke/carbon detector per floor, in addition to the other smoke detectors.

OP, I am so glad to hear you and DC are all right!!

[mommylamb]

Wow, I wonder if it has been leaking before and if that's why you've been having the health problems you've reported in other threads. Glad everyone was ok.

[mackmama]

Oh how scary! I'm so glad you all are ok, and thank you for this reminder. We have a CO monitor and, just yesterday, when an alarm went off in our house I ran to it first thing. (It turned out to be a nearby faulty smoke detector instead.) I feel safer knowing the CO monitor is in our home.

[NancyJ_redo]

Wow, how scary! Glad to hear you're all ok.

And thank you for the PSA. The carbon monoxide detectors have been on my list for a while, I even bought some a few years ago but have yet to install them. I'll now make it a priority.

Also, as a PP said, smoke detectors are supposed to be replaced every 10 years (I thought it was 10, PP said 7-10 years, I'm not sure which is correct). That's on my list also!

[longtallsally05]

So glad everything turned out okay! I had a CO scare a few years ago after my house was re-roofed. During the process, the pipe around my hot water heater became dislodged and I didn't discover it until later. Thank goodness I had a CO detector to alert me. Those things are worth the $ for sure.

[blue]

Very glad to hear that you and DC are alright-how scary. Very important PSA too!

I made SO by a combo smoke/CO2 detector for our trailer, we have a gas stove and furnace and I wasn't convinced that the smoke detector in the trailer worked even with battery changes. As liz a few posts above brought up, it is import to make sure the detectors you have don't need to be replaced (the one in our trailer says it should have been replaced in 2008- landlord didn't do that, no wonder it does not work )