Comment on My CO2 / Smoke Detector Scared a Year off my life today, and I have questions. Long.
Atom@lemmy.world 8 months agoIf 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.
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#….