Bargain alert! CO alarms...

[Masood]

Costco selling Kidde CO alarms with 10-year sensor guarantee for £6.99+VAT.

I offer one at every service and LSC, £30 supply and fit and people are snapping them up.

Found out yesterday these retail at £29.99 so I reckon there's a bigger margin to be made...

 

[smtplumbing]

bargain thats whay i bought 5 lol

 

[mutley racers]

Are they battery powered?

 

[Masood]

Are they battery powered?

Yes the are. A set of Duracells are included...

 

[julesverne]

bloomin eck i thought they cheap at 9.99 + vat 6.99 thats even better. i feel a trip coming with a hot dog and pizza at the end of it.

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[Masood]

bargain thats whay i bought 5 lol

5?????

I bought 20 last time they had this deal, and sold them within 6 weeks. This time there's also a limit of 10 per customer so I've got 10 on my card and 10 on wife's. They are such an easy sell, it's money for old rope!

 

[mutley racers]

What do you need to be able to shop at costco? And do you guys shop there regularly for plumbing tings?

 

[mutley racers]

Can you wire these into a boiler though so if it senses ought it will shut boiler down

 

[Leo21]

Are they battery powered?

No, the generator you need is an extra £800!

 

[Masood]

Can you wire these into a boiler though so if it senses ought it will shut boiler down

I'm sure with a knowledge of electronics you could rig something up. These don't have that function as standard though.

To join Costco you just need proof of being self-employed. I took a statement from my business account and another letter and that was it. Costs about £25 a year.

 

[mutley racers]

I'm sure with a knowledge of electronics you could rig something up. These don't have that function as standard though.

To join Costco you just need proof of being self-employed. I took a statement from my business account and another letter and that was it. Costs about £25 a year.

Great, I shall have a gander and see what it's like

 

[Leo21]

Can you wire these into a boiler though so if it senses ought it will shut boiler down

No no and no. It would have to approved by the regulatory authorities and would be deemed an illegal modification.
Phew that was serious for me!

 

[Ermintrude]

Can you wire these into a boiler though so if it senses ought it will shut boiler down

No, had the idea but didn't go Any further, my thought was to have a gas shut off as this would work with O/F, F/L, R/S but CO false alarms waste hours of my life already...... Have to take your time before u say its ok!!

 

[Ermintrude]

No no and no. It would have to approved by the regulatory authorities and would be deemed an illegal modification.
Phew that was serious for me!

100% correct. This would be very silly to do . It would need to have cert before u use it . Some interlink co / heat detectors have a 240 or 12v signal, this could be used external to boiler with a normally closed 240v relay but I wouldn't!

 

[mutley racers]

I need to learn all these relays and transistors and capacitors and diodes and all this stuff. But from where

 

[Ermintrude]

Playing with them and an old electronics book or Nelson and Parker A level physics 5th or 6th Ed . Threw one out from recently was fro 88!

 

[Ermintrude]

Or google he's good too!

 

[mutley racers]

So more studying to be done then. 88, yikes

 

[tamz]

I'm sure someone will make one that has an interlock on it, probably linked to a solenoid.
If there is one it won't be cheap.

 

[Mike Jackson]

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[AWheating]

as mike has posted, you can get them now. you can use them for flues in voids situations from what i remember in the mag i read.