Yikes! Carbon monoxide in my apartment

[Lavender Brown]

So I'm in my apartment, making lunch and trying to decide if I should brave the blizzard that's starting outside when the carbon monoxide detector starts beeping ominously. We called the landlord and the fire department and they're doing readings.

Now I'm sitting in a cafe reading DU while god knows how many inches of snow come into my apartment through all the open windows. Still don't know if there's an actual leak or if the detector is just broken (it was just installed a few months ago).

:scared: :scared:

[Bunny]

1. Better safe than sorry.

I hope they get it figured out and fixed. In the meantime, thank God for the detector!

[Lavender Brown]

3. We had at least 5 fireman in our apartment

They said their meter wasn't picking anything up, and that it was probably our detector. So they changed the batteries... and then it started going off again. :wtf:

[madison2000]

5. Thank God you had a detector and it worked

When I was in grade school one of my girlfriends and her father died of carbon monoxide poisoning while they slept. Her older sister came home and found the family overcome by it- two survived, two died. I've always had a healthy fear of it.

[BattyDem]

2. It may just be your stove

We had a faulty igniter in our gas oven and it caused the carbon monoxide detector to go off. The gas company came immediately (it's considered an emergency whenever one of those detectors goes off, so they come ASAP) and the tech replaced the igniter. All was well after that. :-)

On edit: Forgot to mention ... the tech told us that the levels of carbon monoxide when using the stove were not dangerous, but the detector is designed to go off at low levels. In other words, even though it was detected, we weren't going to die while cooking.

[Bobweigh]

4. Carbon monoxide is dangerous

I have one of those detectors. Sometimes I will scream at it to see if my mouth has too much carbon monoxide. I am safe so far. :wow: