Don't move into a home without a monitored Carbon Monoxide Detection System.
Carbon Monoxide Basics
This is Ron Larson in regard to modern carbon monoxide detection for your home.
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, carbon monoxide poisoning is the leading cause of accidental poisoning deaths in America.
What is Carbon Monoxide?
Quite simply, carbon monoxide is a gas given off by your natural gas heater as it burns natural gas. It is oderless, tastless and can kill you.
Why is Carbon Monoxide Dangerous?
Overall, it interferes with you bodies ability to process oxygen in your blood stream. It essentially chokes you from the inside.
A monitored Wichita Carbon Monoxide Detection System, ie, one that will report to a dispatch center vs. just have a beeping alarm go off is much more of an asset in regard to your famlies overall safety planning.
At times people are so asleep they will literally sleep through a battery smoke detector or other eighteen dollar carbon monoxide detector, but they won't sleep through a fire squad pulling into you front yard with your entire home alarm system going off due to the carbon monoxide detector going off
What Do I Do if the Alarm Sounds?
Many professionals advise you to ventalate the house and call your gas service or 911 for a fire squad with a gas sniffer to come out.
What you do is a personal decision that you have to make. Personally, I would have my family exit the house and wait in the car (yes, it may be a big pain in the you know what), but it is better than a ER visit for 6.