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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many people have gas.  Get CO detectors and check/test them monthly.  I do ours on the 1st of the month so I don’t forget.

Someone checks our furnaces, HVAC, water heaters, and gas stove. The people who check the furnaces and HVAC come 2x a year and the rest usually come once.  I do it through the gas and electric company, but many heating and plumbing companies have this sort of maintenance you can pay for.  It can be pricey so check around.  I think it’s worth it because they also check for CO and any damage that can possible cause an issue.

If you smell gas get out of your house and call the gas company or the fire department.  Will say we had a CO detector go off and my spouse was home and called the fire department.  It ended up being faulty alarm and not a problem, so we bought a new detector (get new detectors every few years should say on box) but the police told us if it happened again and it ended up being faulty we would be fined!  For something you can’t smell or see! I told the cop next time I would call the gas company and he told me
I should call the fire department. 🙄 Luckily we haven’t had that issue again.

If you’re worried you can probably call the gas company and have them look at things (but you’ll be charged unless you smell gas or something).  When we first bought our home the laundry room closet smelled like gas so I called the gas company and they came out, fixed it and checked everything else.  They ended up redoing the entire gas main line and it all was no cost to me. [/quote]

The ignorance about natural gas astounds me.  Did you all fail high school chemistry? Natural Gas is NOT CO. Natural Gas is mainly CH4 which is Methane. I guess this is why grills have warnings not to use them idoors. People are zero awareness of the world around them. :shock: [/quote]

Gas is purposely scented. CO is much more likely to kill you and is odorless [/quote]

There is a general lack of common sense (prevalant in this area). [/quote]

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