[DangeloInspections]

It is my opinion that even in a total electric home one should have one combo Carbon Monoxide / Smoke detector. This could be a battery only one if you like, installed in a place where one could get to it in a safe manner.

In my many years with the Fire Dept I have gone to countless CO calls. Most of course were from furnaces or gas water heaters with bad flue pipes, backdrafting, or cracked heat exchangers.

I did have come calls where a Senior Citizen forgot to turn off their car after pulling into the garage and closing the door. I've seen gas grills blowing into the house. I remember a family almost dying because the power went out and the owner was running a generator that the exhaust was getting into the home.

I know it is kind of off topic, but folks should know that Carbon Monoxide is odorless, colorless and tasteless......and potentially deadly. That being said, One's chances of having Carbon Monoxide in your home is "almost" zero in a total electric home.

I am just posting some info on the subject......not trying to "alarm" anyone. Basically, if you have a CO/Smoke combo detector in your home now it is wise to keep it that way.

Frank D'Angelo, ACI