Derek Cole and a guest discuss carbon monoxide risks in homes with gas appliances. They explain where to place CO detectors (floor-level in living and sleeping spaces) and warn about cracked furnace heat exchangers, a serious hazard most homeowners don't know about.
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If you have a gas appliance in the home at all, stove, furnace, anything in the home running off of gas, you should have a carbon monoxide detector in the home. A lot of clients we go to have a combination smoke and carbon monoxide detector in the house. The problem is with the CO part of it or the carbon monoxide part is that when it's up high on the ceiling, the that's not doing you any good whatsoever because carbon monoxide is heavy. So the best thing to do is put it on floor level with the outlets on the floor on the wall. That is where it needs to go. If it's up there high in the ceiling on top of the wall, it's good for a smoke alarm, but it's not good for a CO alarm. So if you don't have one, you need one. It's recommended you have one in all living spaces. If you have multiple levels to the house, you have one on each level. Even if you have a single story house but multi or you have a bedroom on one side, bedrooms on the other side, then you should have one on that side and this side. Basically so it can go off. If you have any kind of carbon dioxide which is odorless, you can't smell it, you can't feel it, you can't sense it. So the alarm sets it off. And most cases people get in trouble because it's usually at nighttime when they're asleep. When it starts to bother them, it's something you can't feel going on. So you need that alarm in the living space or in the sleeping space to alarm you when that hazard is there. And as soon as you have a CO alarm go off, you need to have it checked out. And if you have the biggest thing with a gas furnace is when you have a cracked heat exchanger. When you have a cracked heat exchanger, that co it's possible that CO can now come into the home, come into the living space. And that is very, very dangerous. So whenever we see a cracked heat exchanger, we turn it off for that reason. It's a safety hazard. Not saying it's a 100% chance they're going to come in, but you don't even want the possibility of it coming in. So we're going to shut it off and kill it so it doesn't affect you and your family.
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