Carbon Monoxide detectors save lives!
We all know the benefits of hard wired smoke detectors and the lives they save each year but are you aware of the dangers associated with carbon monoxide? Every home using gas, oil, wood or any other type of fossil fuel in their home is in danger of carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide is the result of incomplete combustion of burning any type of fossil fuel. The carbon monoxide produced is odorless and colorless. The CO molecules in the blood adhere better to the hemoglobin than oxygen does in the blood and is the reason death comes silently due to aspyhixiation. CO poisioning sneaks up on you, just to give some reference, a smoker consuming 2 packs per day has approximately 40ppm of CO in their blood at any given time. At 70ppm, the CO will cause headache, at 150ppm drowsiness and between 150ppm and 400ppm the dosage can be lethal causing death!
Here are some stats:
1. 15,200 people were treated for accidental CO exposure from 2001 to 2003
2. leading cause of gas fatalities in the United States
3. more deaths occur due to CO poisoning in December and January than any other month of the year
4. according to the Center for Disease Control, 408 deaths occur each year due to CO poisoning
5. CO is naturally identical to air, the molecular weight of air is 29g/molecule and CO is 28g/molecule
Many states are beginning to realize the importance of CO detectors and they are changing their building codes to require the installation of these detectors. At the present time in NYC, every renovation or new construction project will require combination smoke and carbon monoxide detectors to be installed within ten feet of each bedroom.
I would strongly suggest you contact your licensed electrician and let him/her install Carbon Monoxide detectors in your home.
NFPA 720 has been written to define the proper installation of carbon monoxide detectors in the home. A link to NFPA 720 is http://www.nfpa.org/catalog/product.asp?pid=72012&order%5Fsrc=B484
NFPA does allow combination smoke and CO detectors to be installed in the home, check local codes, manufacturer's specifications and your AHJ for requirements pertaining to installation.
Be Smart and Be Safe install hardwired Smoke Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Detectors in all Homes.
My name is Kevin J. Breen, I have over 40 years in the electrical contracting industry in the NYC area. My career started as an apprentice electrician. Today, I am president of my own licensed electrical contracting business. I am a technical contributor to magazines, an expert witness and assist with electrical accident investigations. I have participated on code making panels contributing to the Nat'l Electrical Code and the Nat'l Fire Alarm Signaling Code. WELCOME!
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Yes, its Thanksgiving
Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving!
I give thanks to live in a country where we are free! Each of us has the ability to become the greatest person we can become based on the principles of freedom and free enterprise. I also give thanks for all those men and women who so bravely defend our country. May God Bless each of you and keep you safe!
Thanksgiving has always been my most favorite time of the year. I have so much to be thankful for!
Even though we are experiencing probably the toughest of economic times my generation has ever seen, I give thanks for my trade and my business. I truly hope you can honestly say that about whatever you do. I have had many people ask, "how can you love what you do so much"? If I may, I would like to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, "Let me count the ways".
10. Tools, yes, Tools and plenty of them
Hey folks, hope you stay safe, work safe and enjoy each and every day!
May God richly bless you and your family!
Happy Thanksgiving.
Kevin
I give thanks to live in a country where we are free! Each of us has the ability to become the greatest person we can become based on the principles of freedom and free enterprise. I also give thanks for all those men and women who so bravely defend our country. May God Bless each of you and keep you safe!
Thanksgiving has always been my most favorite time of the year. I have so much to be thankful for!
Even though we are experiencing probably the toughest of economic times my generation has ever seen, I give thanks for my trade and my business. I truly hope you can honestly say that about whatever you do. I have had many people ask, "how can you love what you do so much"? If I may, I would like to borrow a phrase from Shakespeare, "Let me count the ways".
- Jesus Christ was a carpenter, I would have loved to work with Him on a project.
- I got shocked when I was younger, don't tell OSHA
- I also learned that a toilet bowl is important in one's life , but a plumber, NOT
- Going from job to job, address to address, sort of makes the ADD go away
- "let there be light" that phrase was empowering
- Electricians know everything, right!
- Electrician or Doctor, easier to get a doctor!
- Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the biggest characters in the world are electricians
- you have to work with your brain and your hands
10. Tools, yes, Tools and plenty of them
Hey folks, hope you stay safe, work safe and enjoy each and every day!
May God richly bless you and your family!
Happy Thanksgiving.
Kevin
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Welcome to My Blog
Hey Welcome!
Thanks for checking in at my blog. I will be posting and discussing many of the issues in the electrical contracting business both here in the metropolitan area and around the country. I hope to add plenty of positive information and insight to a trade and a business I have loved for many years. Hope this is as good for you as it will be for me!
WELCOME
KEVIN
Thanks for checking in at my blog. I will be posting and discussing many of the issues in the electrical contracting business both here in the metropolitan area and around the country. I hope to add plenty of positive information and insight to a trade and a business I have loved for many years. Hope this is as good for you as it will be for me!
WELCOME
KEVIN
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