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Ok, I've searched through some old threads about these with people saying they were oing to get them etc... I just wanted to know ow many of you actually carry them?
 
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They are really expensive mate. I've just got a normal one in my toolbox that you'd use in your home.

I don't see the point in the personal ones that can upwards of a tonne.
 
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So you do actually carry one just not a personal one...
 
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£44 thats 25p per day for a 3 year life time . no brainer to me think i said that in another post i started about a year ago
 
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BOD said:
£44 thats 25p per day for a 3 year life time . no brainer to me think i said that in another post i started about a year ago
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Yea, I've been doing his for 11 years now with no problems with co, but that's the problem isn't it, it only takes one.
 
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I got one after reading the post on here. Mine was 50 bucks of ebay. I just think it is better to be safe than sorry. The post was about a 21yr old bg installer whose mum was worried he didn't come home and so called bg. They went to the place he was working and found him too late. I think he was installing a cooker and didn't know about a boiler in the back. A very sad story. So Iwear mine now
 
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CO alarms are the sort of things that are always on the list of things to do but we never quite get round to.
My DH does not carry one.
Be interested to hear if any of you who do - have you been alerted to CO because you had your alarm with you?
 
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Just bought that one from corgi direct £55 all in. All I need now is an alarm to remind me to wear that alarm....
 
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A colleague of mine uses a co2 detector. He says co2 is as bad if not worse than co.
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co blocks your haemaglobin permanently from absorbing oxygen hence why you die, co2 works to activate you body to breathe and absorb o2, to much co2 and you breathe harder in order to get rid of it, no co2 and you dont bother to suck in air and faint all controlled by the medulla oblongata found at the base of your brain. so co2 isnt a problem as far as we are concerned but co most definately is. (old biology knowledge fm school when we were allowed to mask up a popular classmate!! and first increase their co2 intake and watch them pant away then using a quicklime co2 absorber, watch them pass out as there was no co2 present and they faint, but breathe air again and they come round nice and quick:) however they do look daft falling over! Dont think schools are allowed to do this now for fear of prosecution, times are changing for the worse imho

your mate might want to review wearing a co detector to prevent an early death.
 
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Thanks for that info, definitely good to know. Wouldn't have liked to be popular in your school though!!
I was confused tbh when he said to someone it's co2 that's a problem now more than co!! He's been in the trade all his life and due to retire so i didn't question it too much thought he might have known something I didn't.
 
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Thanks for that info, definitely good to know. Wouldn't have liked to be popular in your school though!!
I was confused tbh when he said to someone it's co2 that's a problem now more than co!! He's been in the trade all his life and due to retire so i didn't question it too much thought he might have known something I didn't.
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damm being popular in my old school, its when you were unpopular that life could be hard!!!!!!!!, I just kept the old head down for a few years, and left being neither loved or loathed, prepared for life on a site:)
 
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Bought a crowcon T3 gas personal alarm from eBay few weeks ago first job I took it to went off found over Co over 40ppm in upstairs bedroom coming from downstairs back boiler ... Was beeping like mad and lights flashing. Worth having as you don't really take your analyser everywhere with you.
 
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I use one and its important not to consider a standard CO alarm as a personal alarm. Personal alarms are designed to react immediately to increased levels of CO where as standard alarms calculate the measurement on a time weighted average. You could therefore be in levels higher than 30ppm for 90 minutes without knowing it for example!!

Only advice i will give on which one is get one without a readout as they generally need calibrating. I use a crowcon.
 
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