Sunday, January 25, 2009

Carbon Monoxide Awarness

Please see the article below about carbon monoxide under my Safety Tip You Should Know. Please make sure that you have strategically place CO detectots throughout your house; it needs to be done!!!
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9 comments:

  1. Bill GehrkeJanuary 25, 2009 at 9:02 PM

    I was reading in my local paper about radon gas and there was a website were you can get free radon tests. I went there and my radon test came on Saturday. Unfortunatly they only had 10,000 free test and have since run out.
    I set it up per the instructions and in three days all I have to do is seal it up and send it in for the results. My house has a passive radon reduction system, but from what I read it is something you don't want to mess around with. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer.

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  2. Mr CleanJanuary 26, 2009 at 4:42 PM

    Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

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  3. Patrick L. H.January 28, 2009 at 10:00 AM

    While doing work on one of my homes, someone possibly moi, jarred the hot water heater stack. Before I discovered this I realized that I was getting headaches frequently when I was working in the basement. I rarely get headaches. Sure enough it was carbon monoxide escaping into the basement rather than up the flue. I count myself a lucky and have had a carbon monoxide alarm ever since.

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  4. Blog_BossJanuary 28, 2009 at 6:03 PM

    Having carbon monoxide detectors in your home went into law last year didn't they?

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  5. Mr CleanJanuary 28, 2009 at 6:58 PM

    Blog Boss - Rental property only. It is still not a law to have them in residential houses.

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  6. DragonflyJanuary 30, 2009 at 10:47 AM

    This was interesting as I did not know all of the causes for carbon monoxide poisoning. I have had a carbon monoxide detector in my home for about 12 years. I change the batteries every time we do a time change. I change the smoke detector batteries at the same time. When I purchased my current home about 7 years ago, the carbon monoxide detector in the lower family room kept beeping. I realized that the furnace was causing it. The contractor came out and found that there was a gas leak between the unit and the hose. The parts were replaced with new and no more beeping. I also supply these units to my rental property.

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  7. Mr CleanJanuary 31, 2009 at 9:55 AM

    Dragonfly - If everyone addresses carbon monoxide awareness in the same fashion you do, there would be many lives saved. Nice approach!!!

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  8. MaryJanuary 31, 2009 at 12:57 PM

    I too thought that it was a law that all Illinois dwellings must have carbon monoxide detectors installed. I did some checking and Public Act Ph-074 went into effect on January 1, 2007. Click the following for complete text. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=094-0741

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  9. Blog_BossFebruary 3, 2009 at 5:25 PM

    I remember seeing a show once I think it was "Believe it ot not" where a family bought a new home and moved in and the mother/wife started getting a very bad headache (symptom of CO2 poisoning) and her husband took her to the hospital leaving the kids at home. Well while she was there in the fresh air she started to recover and saw a special on CO2 poisoning on the TV in the waiting room and thought that sounds just like me now and panicked about the kids being at home in it. At the end of the show they said it was true.

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