Jane Reviews: Safety

Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Do you have any gas appliances in your home? Then you need one of these. Don't wait for a problem.

We had a problem with our waterheater. We didn't know it at first. Looking back there were tons of signs. The first of which was that the cat was sick. Cats are effected by carbon monoxide poisening first. Lucky for me my birds were on the second floor or they would have been dead. Of course the next to expire would have been us.

Once we were not getting hot water we thought there may be a problem. At this point we were not overly concerened.

I went out and bought several of these Nighthawk Carbon Monoxide Detector at the urging of my brother. He had several friends die on a boat where they were taking a nap as the a/c ran. Carbon monoxide built up and they never woke up. As soon as I plugged it in on the first floor it read 30! When I took it out to the garage it shot up past 100!

This Nighthawk unit has a really easy to read level indicator. It will sound an alarm if the levels rise. They have a 9v battery in case of power failure but they plug into a wall socket.

We had the water heater cleaned of soot, put a detector on every floor and are back in business. Don't skimp on these, if you have gas appliances. Put one in every area where you have the appliances.

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