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Where is the best place to put a carbon monoxide detector in my home?


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Updated: 08/23/2016
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Answer: Near any appliance that uses gas, bedroom halls or the rooms themselves and where you have gas exhausts.
South East Contractors of Atlanta LLC
Answer: In the hallway outside the bedrooms and on each level of the home.
WIN Home Inspection
Answer: In same room as fire place and other gas fuel burning equipment
S&B Property Inspections LLC
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Answer: LOWER THIRD SECTION OF THE WALL
Michael J West Dreamkeeper Home Inspections Inc
Answer: Carbon monoxide is lighter than air. It also rises with warm air, so the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommends placing a carbon monoxide detector on a wall about five feet above the floor or about eye level.
Alert360
Answer: If you live in a multi-story home, be sure to place at least one carbon monoxide detector on each level. If your furnace is located in the basement, be sure to place a CO detector there, as well. Likewise, if you have a gas clothes dryer, put an alarm in the laundry room
Pinkerton Inspection Agency LLC
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Answer: I will photograph detectors on request
Harris Business Professionals
Answer: Most manufacturers recommend installing a detector about eye level.
Scheidt Home Inspection
Answer: If you have gas service to appliances in the home, you are required to place a CO detector in the hallway serving sleeping areas and in the bedrooms or sleeping areas. The method is that you will hear the detector outside the sleeping areas before the alarms detect CO in the sleeping areas.
Michael Moffitt, Moffitt Property Inspections & Consulting
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Answer: It is generally accepted to place CO detectors on the ceiling or high on a wall in the area(s) just outside sleeping rooms.
Space City Inspections, LLC
Answer: 5 feet off the ground; near every sleeping area.
Sonitrol of Ft. Lauderdale
Answer: Each level of a multi-level home and 5 feet off the ground where the furnace is located.
Timberline Homes LLC
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Answer: Near gas appliances
Aspire Inspection Services
Answer: Bed rooms,hallways
H&R PROFESSIONAL INSPECTIONS
Answer: In each bedroom.
Surveillance Tech Group
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Answer: On each floor of the home, especially near the bedrooms. Please refer to your local fire department for proper placement of all detectors in the home.
Reality Property Inspections
Answer: There is some controversy on this subject. Because Carbon monoxide is heavier than air it tends to float down but the controversy is because the CO is heated it tends to rise. The answer really is high or low lets hope your CO detector is good enough to alert you when there is danger. Buy a good one you are worth it.
Honest Home Inspections & Milwaukee Mold Inspector
Answer: It depends on the type of detector. Follow the installation instructions provided with the detector.
Superior Inspection Services
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Answer: In the area of a gas furnace and/or gas hot water tank is the most typical.
Heritage Inspectors
Answer: They should be on every floor on a wall about a foot from the ceiling. They should also be close to main sleeping areas.
Moran Property Inspections
Answer: Equipment rooms and bedrooms.
Professional Home Inspections
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Answer: Above a door or stairwell, basement where ever furnace is located, kitchen, room where fireplace is located. Follow instruction of installation.
North State Inspections
Answer: Place it in proximity to the furnace area.
Kairos Home Inspections
Answer: in the area of carbon monoxide flumes, close to sleeping areas
OnSite Home Inspection, LLC
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Answer: On the ceiling
Royalty Home Solutions, Inc
Answer: In order to ensure that your home has maximum protection, it's important to have a CO detector on every floor. Five feet from the ground. Carbon monoxide detectors can get the best reading of your home's air when they are placed five feet from the ground. Near every sleeping area.
Monitoring Alarm Services
Answer: Typically near the floor within three feet of a heat register
Able Home Inspections
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Answer: basement, hall ways,etc
Thomas Property Services llc
Answer: If there is a garage with a door from the garage to the home a carbon monoxide detector should be placed inside the door. If no garage one should be placed outside of bedrooms.
BurCan Dynamics LLC
Answer: It is preferable to place the detector 5' from the ground and near every sleeping quarters.
Slomins Total Security Solutions
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Answer: Living area above furnace
Allied Services Home Inspection
Answer: On each floor and in bedrooms.
Millyard Home Inspection
Answer: either in a hallway or the basement.
Contractors Corp.
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Answer: Near heating vents.
Brewer Contract Consulting
Answer: Low lying area within 10' of bedrooms
Anthony Quarato home inspections
Answer: The best place for carbon monoxide detectors are every floor of your hame, near bedrooms and within ten feet of an attached garage,
Best Choice Inspections
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Answer: Within 8 feet from furnace and hot water heater also in hallway by bedrooms
At Ease Home Inspection
Answer: Basement or near heating and cooling equipment
Look First Homes, LLC
Answer: In the center of the home near the water heater.
JKS Home Inspection
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Answer: low to the ground as possible, preferably near gas type appliances.
Vico Home Inspection
Answer: Near the sleeping area
Vintage Security
Answer: Near any gas using appliance
G M M Property Inspections
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Answer: By utilities, living area, and kitchen.
The Inspection Boys
Answer: In the mechanical area near the furnace and hot water heaters. They are the largest producers of carbon monoxide. The next area should be in a hallway near the sleeping quarters.
Master Building Inspectors
Answer: Proper placement of a carbon monoxide (CO) detector is important. If you are installing only one carbon monoxide detector, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recommends it be located near the sleeping area, where it can wake you if you are asleep. Additional detectors on every level and in every bedroom of a home provides extra protection against carbon monoxide poisoning.
House and Home Inspection Services
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Answer: Near the sleeping area.
Definitive Entertainment
Answer: Follow the instructions from the manufacturer.
Home Inspection Solutions
Answer: Several locations, bedrooms and hallways near the HVAC return air vents.
Ray REI
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Answer: Proximate to the source of the flame ( in this case the fireplace).
Rightway Residential Home Inspections
Answer: In the bedrooms otherwise mechanical room or entry to garage.
Everest Home Inspectors
Answer: Basement and hallways outside of the bedrooms
ABC Home Inspections LLC
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Answer: Basement
CLEAR POINT HOME INSPECTIONS LLC
Answer: According to manufacturers instructions
A Better Choice Home Inspection, Co
Answer: Bedroom
AHI Residential & Commercial Inspections
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Answer: CO mixes with air, so chest to knee height if possible is best in terms of location. In the home itself, for the best coverage, place one in each major area of your house. If that is untenable, the most important areas are sleeping areas/rooms, then places like the garage, by your furnace, laundry room if your dryer is gas operated, and if its multistory, then one on each story.
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