Before I explain recommended CO alarm locations and show you where to install Carbon Monoxide alarm in your home, let me list a few areas where CO alarms are not required.
Where to install a smoke detector and its positioning are as important as having this life saving device installed at all. Placing a smoke detector in a wrong location might delay its response to smoke or even prevent it from sounding an alarm at all.
Do you have a balcony and small children running around the house? If so, before you start reading about the balcony railing safety code, make sure that they are not playing alone. My children are already older and I don’t have to worry about them fitting in between the balcony railings. However, every time I [...]
One of the first questions asked during my inspections is: “where did you get this telescopic ladder?”. So, to make my life easier and yours happier, I’ll tell you about that famous piece of equipment … actually two manufacturers and 3 telescopic ladders. Telescopic ladders are made out of aluminum, which makes them significantly light. [...]
Incandescent closet light fixture fire hazard is very often ignored by the home owner. Is your closet light safe? Would you please go and check you closet light fixture right now… We rarely pay attention to our closet light, for as long as it works. Stacking cardboard boxes and plastic bags filled with old clothing [...]
With stair handrails and guardrails safety, it is the same concept as with many other requirements guiding our daily commute – we often believe these rules are created for others only, until we suddenly realize that there’s nothing to hold on to when gravity’s force pulls our body down the stairs with an increasing speed. [...]
Is your clothes dryer vent discharging air from the appliance? Is your dryer vent clean? Does it take long to dry your clothes? Have you checked your clothes dryer pipe in the attic or crawlspace? There are still many home owners that fail to comply with current building code requirements concerning their clothes dryer vents. [...]
Carbon Monoxide Detectors should be replaced every 2-6 years / based on the particular model manufacturer recommendation. Mechanically operating device - warning sound when you push the button, does not mean that its CO sensor is still functional.
Maybe because I’m a home inspector, or maybe because I have my own children, I over-react sometimes (mentally – my personal imagination just takes off) in situations where common sense and a little imagination is required. I always prefer taking extra safety precautions; it makes sense for me to go that one extra inch just [...]
Smoke detector is a very inexpensive and extremely important type of a life saving device, but one of those we tend to forget about, or sometimes disconnect when they start chirping / calling for a new battery. Smoke detectors began their journey into our lives in 1890 (as a fire alarm), and evolved into residential, [...]
