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Originally Posted by Topspinmo
Great information! Thanks! Makes sense CM lighter than air it would rise to the ceiling and fill the room from the ceiling down? So, in theory if you mount it lower than bed level you're getting gassed before the dectector goes off?
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Thank you for the kind words. To answer your last question, that is hard for me to say, and a bit beyond my scope. The Villages installs a combination Smoke/CO detector outside each bedroom, and since they are hard wired together, when one goes off they all go off. Generally, By code a smoke detector should be in every bedroom, and outside the bedrooms.
I would think that because the specific gravity of CO is so close to air, you would not have a distinct stratification of the CO to that extreme. The CO detectors typically go off well before a person would succumb from it's effects. It is beyond my expertise to say for sure. ANY working detector is better than no detector.
In an all electric home this risk is minimal. Now that they are building homes in Fenney, etc, with gas again, it becomes more of an issue. Keeping your gas dryer vent secure and cleaned out is important. In a neighboring community (not The Villages...except for a few very rare cases) I am finding a good amount of clogged dryer vents that can be both a CO and lint fire hazard.
CO poison is much more prevalent up north, where you have old rusted out flues, furnaces in basements, cracked heat exchangers, gas water heaters in basements, etc, etc...