Check that CO detector.

[MuskieJunkie]

Do you have a CO detector in your house? You should.

Here's my story, sitting around on a typical Saturday night (this happened about 30 minutes ago), my son is asleep, my wife is out, I'm watching TV. Out of no where I hear an alarm going off, long story short I had lit a fire in the fireplace earlier today and some how, some way through the course of the fire the flu closed by itself. The fire was smoldering for who knows how long with the flu closed.

Don't ask me how, our house isn't that old and we've used the fireplace 100 times before with no issues. If I hadn't had that CO detector there is a possibilty you'd be reading about my son and I in the morning newspaper.

Learn from my mistake, check that CO detector right now. "I don't have one" you say? GO BUY ONE!

[ac777]

Wow,that had to be a little scary, Also it's good to check them in the fish houses also.

[giddyup99]

Another good thing to remember is that the CO sensor inside the alarm lasts only around 5 years. Any detector over 5 yrs old should be replaced. The test button on the unit does not test the CO sensor of it.

[IFallsRon]

Minnesota requires CO detectors.

[wplatehunter]

Good Info I'll have to check how old ours is. Thanks.

[waterwolff]

Had a similar experience 2 years ago I have a older 2 story house with masonry wood burning fireplaces. We were burning a fire one evening when the basement co detector went off so I removed it and replaced it with one from the main living level and in minutes time it also went off. I than opened the side door to my house to vent and the level started going down imideatly. What had happened earlier in the day I had replaced the threshold to that side door and it had made the door airtight creating a negative air pressure in the house. The main culprit was there was no combustion air vent to the furnace. The next day I got a 6" core drill and installed a vent problem solved. We have co detectors installed on every floor and the wheel house also cheap insurance in my book.

Mike