Comment on My CO2 / Smoke Detector Scared a Year off my life today, and I have questions. Long.
Drusas@kbin.social 8 months ago
So it's the smoke detector, not the CO detector? These are separate devices. A smoke detector will typically be on the ceiling and a CO detector will typically be close to the floor.
I've had smoke detectors which are set off by steam, such as from a hot shower. You can replace it with a style of detector which operates differently, not using photoelectricity to be triggered. Keeping batteries fresh is also supposed to help, but I don't know if it really does.
That said, you may want an alarm for humidity because 82% is quite high and may cause damage to the home.
Atom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If you’re referring to Carbon Monoxide detectors [I recognize the OP made an error calling them CO2] commonly referred to as “smoke/CO”, then, in the US at least, smoke and Carbon Monoxide detectors are usually combined units. I’ve never found one to be separated like that. A common example is below. Carbon Monoxide is similar, if not lighter than common air density, so putting one on the floor wouldn’t make any real difference.
firstalert.com/…/prc710-10-year-battery-combinati…
Drusas@kbin.social 8 months ago
Huh. I'm in the US, and have always had these as separate units because smoke detectors function best on the ceiling and carbon monoxide detectors function best by the floor.
Atom@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How weird, I’ve never seen that configuration. Today I learned. I just wanted to add that in case anyone read that and thought their living space was unsafe with a combination detector. The EPA says to put them, if they are CO specific, to put them about eye level from the floor, or on the ceiling.
www.adt.com/…/carbon-monoxide-detector-placement#….