EN
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Do not:
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IGNORE ANY WARNING FROM YOUR CO
DETECTOR!
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Burn charcoal inside your home, caravan,
tent or cabin.
•
Install, convert or service fuel-burning
appliances without proper knowledge, skill
and expertise.
•
Use a gas cooker for heating a room.
•
Operate unvented gas burning appliances
using paraffin or natural gas in closed
rooms.
•
Operate petrol-powered engines indoors or
in confined areas.
•
Barbecue indoors, or in an attached
garage.
•
Ignore a safety device when it shuts an
appliance off.
Always:
•
Buy appliances accepted by a recognised
testing laboratory.
•
Install appliances according to the
manufacturer’s instructions.
•
Have appliance installations carried out by
professionals (for gas appliances engineers
should be registered on the Gas Safe
register).
•
Have your appliances checked regularly by
a qualified service engineer.
•
Have your chimneys and flues cleaned
professionally every year.
•
Make regular visual inspections of all fuel-
burning appliances.
•
Open windows when a fireplace or oil/solid
fuel cooker is in use.
•
Only install CO detectors that meet the
requirements of EN 50291-1: 2010 and EN
50291-2: 2010 in your home
•
Be aware of CO poisoning symptoms.
•
Educate yourself and your family on the
sources and symptoms of CO poisoning and
how to use your carbon monoxide detector.
WHERE TO INSTALL
YOUR ALARM
This CO alarm is
suitable for use in
domestic premises
(caravan holiday homes), caravans, motor
caravans and boats.
The following advice is applicable to all
intended applications, there are special
instructions at the end of this section relating
to positioning in caravan holiday homes,
caravans, motor caravans and boats.
WARNING:
This detector will only indicate
the presence of carbon monoxide gas at
the sensor. Carbon monoxide gas may be
present in other areas.
In which room should the detector be
installed?
Ideally, an alarm should be installed in every
room containing a fuel-burning appliance.
Additional alarms may be installed to ensure
that adequate warning is given for occupants
in other rooms, by locating alarms in:
•
Remote rooms in which the occupant(s)
spend considerable time whilst awake and
from which they may not be able to hear an
alarm from devices in another part of the
premises, and;
•
Every sleeping room.
However, if there is a fuel-burning appliance
in more than one room and the number of
alarms is limited, the following points should
be considered when deciding where best to
put the alarm:
•
Locate the alarm in a room containing a
flueless or open-flued appliance, and;
•
Locate alarms in a room where the
occupant(s) spend most time.
•
If the domestic premises is a bedsit (a
single room serving as both sitting and
bedroom) then the alarm should be put as
far from the cooking appliances as possible
but near to where the person sleeps.
• If the appliance is in a room not normally
used (for example a boiler room), the alarm
should be put just outside the room so
