On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 6:11:32 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:00:52 -0000, "James Wilkinson
Sword" wrote:

On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 02:32:42 -0000, mike wrote:

On 1/2/2017 10:56 AM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:33:03 -0000, Thomas wrote:

On Sunday, January 1, 2017 at 7:55:11 PM UTC-5, James Wilkinson Sword
wrote:
If CO, oh for goodness sake, boilers exhaust the gases into the
outside world, not into the house. You don't need a CO alarm.


That is a scary opinion.

Is your boiler exhaust inside the house? Only really old fires did that.

If the CO alarm goes off, the answer might well be yes.
Things don't always work the way they should. We call that BROKEN.
Your advice turns broken into DEAD.

Your boiler cannot break that badly.

A) Why do you assume everyone has a boiler? Do you not know about
forced air heat?

B) I don't at all believe you that a boiler can't break that badly. A
boiler is like other furnaces except that it uses the heat to heat
water.

I gave the idiot a link to a UK news story of a millionaire's
daughter that died of CO poisoning in a new home with a boiler,
the boiler was inspected just 2 years prior. I also gave him links
to health authorities in UK outlining that CO poisoning from
malfunctioning heat sources is a real problem that sends hundreds
to the ER and kills each year.




I don't have a boiler but like all furnaces, my furnace vents outside.
That didn't stop the CO from reaching poisonous levels when the flue was
partly clogged. The CO alarm went off and it protected me. Like
Thomas says, things can break. Don't tell anyone else who uses fire to
heat their house that they don't need a CO detector. You're going to
kill someone.

+1