Where to Put Your Carbon Monoxide Alarm | HouseSmarts Radio

There are many things that are crucial to Lou Manfredini and the HouseSmarts team, but nothing more so than home safety. One of the most basic areas of home safety is making sure you have carbon monoxide and smoke alarms in your house. It is important that your smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors are positioned properly. Recently on HouseSmarts Radio on WABC in New York, this caller was wondering where she should place her carbon monoxide detector in her two-story home. home.
If you are like this caller and only have one alarm to place in your home, you should place your carbon monoxide detector in the hallway right outside of your bedroom. With the chemical makeup of carbon monoxide, it does not matter whether you place the detector higher up or lower on the wall. Lou strongly recommends having multiple carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors placed on various levels and rooms of your home to have all bases covered. Home safety alarms are an inexpensive purchase that can quite literally save your life! And while we are on the topic of home alarms, regularly check your alarms to make sure they are working properly and update the batteries. Stay safe everyone!
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[@JeffersonMills]

Carbon monoxide is not CO2 as your onscreen text says; it’s CO.

[@doctorcochraine1816]

monoxide is one O and dioxide is O2

[@ckelly5141]

Great advice!

[@2slofouru]

Carbon monoxide is a little lighter than air, so it will actually rise. That means you can place CO detectors anywhere from a few feet off thr floor, up to the ceiling.

[@mannya9700]

Great video. Has the exact information I was looking for! 👍

[@emilyharvey2904]

Thank you

[@Bababin1986]

A firefighter told me that carbon monoxide detector should go at the bottom of the wall, because by the time it reaches higher up on the wall, we would all be dead already. I’m so confused.

If Im the only person in my home shouldnt I put my detector in my bedroom? Where in the bedroom?

[@glenboid]

Nice concise explanation!

[@darwinawardrecipient955]

Its not the same chemical weight as the, "Air we breathe", air is 78% nitrogen, which in air stably bonds to N2(28.02g/mol) versus CO which is (28.04g/mol). I dont really care, its negligable, but in a lab test if I wanted to detect small changes... Id place it lower down. You do you!

[@GShar-vu5vn]

Can i use it for TV travel trailer?

[@sammyday3341]

Perfect and to-the-point advice.

[@scottcalkins3775]

Need to fix heading that references CO2 vs. CO

[@estrellacasias]

What does it mean of its a single beep that never stops

[@AndyC2_]

Either the battery is low charge - or alternatively it might mean that the detector itself is at its end of useful life which is usually 7-10 yrs old dependant on the manufacturer

[@estrellacasias]

@@AndyC2_ it's two years old

[@AndyC2_]

@@estrellacasias Ah okay gotcha, then I would swap the battery and if that doesn’t work, then perhaps the unit is faulty. Definitely try new batteries first as it’s the simplest and cheapest option and hopefully it will resolve the issue 🤞🏼

[@spicypiscessInVR]

I have that alarm

[@ClawMachinePrize]

DON’T PAINT IT

[@coltonphillips1]

ADT scammers tried to tell me it needed to be near the floor.

[@mikefahey5270]

the guy just said it doesn't matter, high or low, so how is them telling you to mount it low scamming you ??

[@UnDefinedLegacy]

You only want low if you have pets or little kids with low floor beds.

[@cyrildaniel3283]

CO2 is heavier than air.

[@doribi05]

CO2 is carbon Dioxide, "Di" meaning two oxygen atoms...different than CO which is carbon Monoxide. Mono means one. Carbon Monoxide is slightly lighter than air. You are correct that dioxide is heavier but that's not what the detector is for.

[@bcoldwell1]

Adjacent.

[@deficator750]

whats the point of making a video?

[@LinkRocks]

To put it on youtube, numb nuts.

[@natalieboillot]

So people don’t die. Next question.

[@mt_gox]

@@natalieboillot no one has died since this video was posted

[@natalieboillot]

@@mt_gox "Every year, at least 420 people die in the U.S. from accidental CO poisoning. More than 100,000 people in the U.S. visit the emergency department each year due to accidental CO poisoning."

[@mt_gox]

@@natalieboillot what's the point of making a video?