Joking aside, if you have natural gas or propane burning appliances (stove, oven, clothes dryer, grill),furnaces, water heaters or fireplaces and do not have carbon monoxide alarms in your home, you are playing with life.
Ours saved our family when it went off in the middle of the night. The source turned a out to be a cracked heat exchanger in our less than 10- year old furnace.
Our original Carbon Monoxide alarms looked identical to this 20 year old plug-in model/battery backup model. Is it better/equivalent to the battery powered CO Alarms sold by Costco that instead have LCD displays and show the temperature? Those units often go on sale for about $20 each.
Ease of installation is important so you’ll not only buy the CO Alarms but also install them. They don’t save lives sitting in the box in the basement! Battery models can be placed anywhere, even in a hallway outside bedrooms where there might not be wall power.
Note Carbon Monoxide Alarms tend to expire after 10 years. Replacing the battery won’t “fix” them.
Whatever you decide, keep functioning Carbon Monoxide alarms in your home!
Good point and a reminder for me to check ours up at camp where I use this exact model.
But it’s actually 7 years typically. Smoke detectors are 10. Regardless, it’s whatever the date is on the back of the detector.
I see Kidde’s CO detectors made 2013 on are a ten year expiration. Prior to 2013 it was seven.
Got these last time in October. Really easy to setup and haven’t any issues with them other than the one time I bumped one of the buttons and it went through a resetting process that freaked out the dogs. lol