Kiddie Carbon Monoxide Alarm €12.99 - Bricks and Mortar Shop

Gumbo

As someone, whose job it is to promote and enforce compliance with Building Regulations, I always keep an eye on deals in the area.

This is the lowest price I've seen these big brand units for. They were recently €19.99 in Aldi.

KCR Builders Providers,
Ravensdale Drive
Dublin
€12.99

Atlantic Dawn

Great price, every home should have one.

Gumbo

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Great price, every home should have one.

At least one!

In the room with the fire/stove/boiler.
Any room that the flue /chimney of that device passes through.
One on each landing.

That would be my set up and is what's required of all new homes now.

unkel

Great price, I have the slightly fancier one with the digital display and I paid £19.99 for it a few years ago, which was a bargain at the time.

kceire wrote: »

At least one!

In the room with the fire/stove/boiler.
Any room that the flue /chimney of that device passes through.
One on each landing.

That would be my set up and is what's required of all new homes now.

Fair enough in every room where CO is possibly produced. I only have one in the living room where we have a gas fire, I don't have one in the kitchen where our gas boiler is, I will buy one for that room too. But on the landings? I'm surprised that's in the regulations now. We do have 3 smoke alarms in hall, landing first floor and attic landing.

Gumbo

unkel wrote: »

Fair enough in every room where CO is possibly produced. I only have one in the living room where we have a gas fire, I don't have one in the kitchen where our gas boiler is, I will buy one for that room too. But on the landings? I'm surprised that's in the regulations now. We do have 3 smoke alarms in hall, landing first floor and attic landing.

Yeah, it's tightened up recently. Part J of the Building Regulations will control this. In a new house where an appliance is placed, a CO detector has to go into any habitable room or within 5m of the door to that room, so the landings usually cover this. Most developers will put one on the landing rather than one in each bedroom.

In theory, one as close to where you spend most of your time is where the danger is, like the bedroom, but then you could fall asleep in the sitting room some day and the parts per million be enough to kill you there.

If your sitting room is connected to the kitchen, I'd be more inclined to put the detector n the upstairs landing close to the bed spaces.

Redsoxfan

kceire wrote: »

As someone, whose job it is to promote and enforce compliance with Building Regulations, I always keep an eye on deals in the area.

This is the lowest price I've seen these big brand units for. They were recently €19.99 in Aldi.

KCR Builders Providers,
Ravensdale Drive
Dublin
€12.99

The flyer seems to say it was a one day deal only?

unkel

Redsoxfan wrote: »

The flyer seems to say it was a one day deal only?

It was?

Read the flyer again, the one day sale is this coming Saturday

sweetie

are these the ones that last for 7 years?

Redsoxfan

unkel wrote: »

It was?

Read the flyer again, the one day sale is this coming Saturday

Woops, thanks OP, will hopefully pick up a few.

Gumbo

sweetie wrote: »

are these the ones that last for 7 years?

Yes. i use them in my own house.