09-28-2024, 09:11 PM
(09-28-2024, 04:56 PM)Highpower Wrote: A couple of weeks ago my entire family came close to dying in our sleep. No joke.
And YES - we have smoke / carbon monoxide detectors on every level of the house. Not ONE of them set off an alarm.
Thats way more scary than those quotes!!!
Had a similar experience once too. Got up at 3am to go to work one morning and felt like crap. We had a huge snow dump overnight so I decided I'll just call in, and went back to bed. Several hours later was awakened by the CO detector going off.
Turned out the heat ex-changer in the furnace had started rusting and a few pinholes broke thru.
But, same as you, if it was bad enough to get me sick, why didnt the detector go off till so much later?
The detector was in the same room as the furnace, and the bedroom is on the opposite end of the house.
Retired old guy finally living the dream and enjoying life to the fullest!!!