1_Patriotic_Guy wrote:
Not trying to be rude, but yes carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide, and
where can I buy a sensor?

As a veteran confined to my home, I have time to think and act only in my
small corner of the world. Since I am in my home almost 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, I would like to maximize the health I have. I exercise and get
fresh air outside my back door, but as it gets cold, I spend much more time
inside. So the subject line is my question and how do I monitor it.

I ask because this month when the furnace 1st kicked on I had to have a
repair person deal with a carbon monoxide issue, so now I have 3 carbon
monoxide detectors, 1 in the furnace roon, 1 in my bedroom and one in the
main room of the house.

Thanks in Advance!
Andy



You are way too paranoid. So you deal with the carbon monoxide from
the furnace. Now that it is fixed where are you going to get CO, so
why do you have 3 detectors? Did you have a detector before the
furnace was fixed? if not why didn't you die? The fact is that
deaths due to CO are relatively rare in homes and mostly confined to
people doing very stupid things and the small remainder are due to
extremely poor maintenance of fuel burning furnaces.

OTOH, deaths due to high carbon dioxide levels, is not only rare, it
is essentially non-existent. It is probably impossible to have high
levels of carbon dioxide in any house that has windows and doors that
open. Most houses leak a minimum of 10 percent volume per day, which
avoids any CO2 build up.

Manufactures of CO detectors jumped on the bandwagon and make a lot of
money hyping CO hysteria and selling a product that is virtually
useless to the average person. In contrast to some other
commenters, there are CO2 detectors available at a cost no much
greater than a CO detector. And of course, you could have just bought
one CO detector and waited and go a CO and a CO2 combined detector for
less than the cost of the other two CO detector you bought. These are
becoming more and more common in the big box stores and are always
available at RV stores (trailers and motorhomes) the danger level is
several factors greater than in a home.

Good luck.