Carbon Monoxide

[FiremanT]

Who are you to say that a device that has passed the relevant tests and been EU marked is going to be faulty. The reason that the cheap ones are cheaper than the dearer ones is probaby because the dearer ones look smarter and are marketed by different companies to Aldi. And the cheap ones look horrible, but it doesn't stop them being effective.

You may have come across ad efective one, or more likely, your "false positive" was an accurate alarm, trigerred by something that may not have been your boiler. Was the alarm still beeping when you arrived?

 

[seashore]

You can get all kinds of alarms some are battery operated, which you can move round the house and others plug in. There is a site, Safelincs, which sell a huge range of them.

Buying an alarm that is faulty is not that probable, and if it were you can get it exchanged. It is the same with any item, it does not put me off buying a toast just because the last one I had was duff.

 

[FiremanT]

Nice bit of self promoting spam there "seashore", but it isn't actually allowed

 

[oilman]

Who are you to say that a device that has passed the relevant tests and been EU marked is going to be faulty.

Ever heard of counterfeit goods? As well as that there are plenty of goods with CE marks that are just CE marked. They have never had any form of approval. It's relatively easy to print labels.

And yes the alarm was going when I was there with my analyser running.
What I was trying to point out, but you missed it, it seems, that having adequate ventilation, though treated as blasphemy nowadays, is an inherently safer option than relying on alarms.

 

[patsmotors]

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