Speaking off the cuff here, I have seen situations where a contractor has come in to work on the fireplace and didn’t do something correctly with the exhaust or venting of the fireplace or the gas stove. Carbon monoxide`can built up and get the entire household unless someone catches it.
Had a friend wake up and go to the bathroom and noticed as he looked in the mirror that his skin was green and that started things rolling. He woke up the family and saved everyone’s life. Everyone had bad headaches for a day or two. Stove had been worked on that morning and wasn’t venting properly.
Please forgive me for being ignorant, aside from carbon monoxide detectors -— is there someone or something that can be held accountable for things like this? Should there be?
bttt
Several years ago, out CO detector went off. Nobody had any apparent symptoms so we weren’t sure if it was some sort of malfunction as the detector was fairly old. But we did vent the house and made a call to 911. It turned out that there was indeed abnormal levels of CO, coming from the stove.
We had a mat that was meant to be used on the bottom oven rack to catch drippings from a pizza, for example. What happened was that after cleaning, that mat was mistakenly placed directly on the bottom of the oven instead of the lower rack, thereby causing improper combustion.
That CO detector may very well have saved our family, and now we have a CO detector in the master bedroom (the original location), one down the hall, and a CO/Propane detector in the basement.