Skip of course is correct. Thay are required here when you have a home with an attached garage. Even in an all electric home, why would you not have one.....
As a former career firefighter, I went on calls where older folks would pull in their garages and not realize they forgot to turn their car off. Some almost died.
Other folks all needed to be rushed to a hospital because the homeowner thought it was a good idea to run a gas powered generator inside his garage during an outage.
I have seen many folks here in The Villages convert their electric range to propane gas.
Having a CO detector in the home is just common sense.
Carbon Monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that has a specific gravity of .9657, so it is slightly lighter than air. ALL the major CO detector companies do not specifically tell you where they should be installed simply because plug in ones need a receptacle, and battery powered ones do not. It is NOT true that they should be low to the floor....ideally they should be roughly 2 feet below the ceiling, but even on the ceiling is fine ACCORDING to the MANUFACTURER. If all you have is a plug in type, plug it into a receptacle and having it is much better than not having one at all.
On a related topic, smoke detectors have come a long way. There are many good articles debating the merits of ionization vs. Photoelectric detectors. NFPA states that all detectors should be replaced every ten years. The cost of replacement is small compared to the important job they do.
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