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10 Comments on Carbon Monoxide Detectors now Required in New Construction Homes in GA
It is a good idea to have CO detectors even if not required by law.
Jen--Once it becomes required in new construction, the requirements for existing homes won't be far behind. With CO detectors, it is a matter of life and death.
Gita and Teri, I agree, CO detectors are so important. I put one in my home. It was the plug in kind. It was so easy, no thinking about hard wiring required! :) I gave some as Christmas gifts last year too. Thanks for your comments.
Several years ago I inspected a home that had significant furnace issues. The buyer took my recommendation to have a licensed HVAC contractor address the issues but he also added CO detectors. Unfortunately the HVAC contractor did not properly address the problem with the furnace but because my client added the CO detectors, he is alive today.
Jen being on the mortgage side of things and not a Realtor, I was not aware that Connecticut required this test.
Hi Jen,
In California we have to have smoke detectors, but not CO detectors - at least not that I've heard. But it actually sounds like a pretty good idea. Especially if they can be a combined unit for the two functions. Thanks for sharing.
CO is so deadly, that I'm surprised that we haven't seen this trend earlier. Thank you for sharing this information. We should all really have them in our homes anyway. I think that they should be on equal footing with smoke detectors.
Why the various building codes and/or government codes don't require carbon monoxide alarms is beyond me. Carbon monoxide is much more dangerous than fire and smoke. Fire and smoke you can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel. Not so with carbon monoxide. Put them in your homes, folks, regardless of whether or not they are required by codes or law. Life is too precious to lose them to something that is so easily detectable by a little $40 device.
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