The requirement for a CO detector depends mostly on the type of heating in use. If it's any kind of gas heating, yes you really really want one. If it's wood, water, or electric there's not as much reason for it.
I'm so glad you went on intuition and got the detector. CO isn't talked about much here unless there's a power outage in winter. We got hit with that strange "bug" you're talking about a couple years ago. It was so scary!
It was winter and we were out of power and my husband was out of town. So I warmed the basement by making a fire in the woodstove out of twisted newspaper, which was all I had. To capture every bit of the heat, I opened the woodstove doors but kept the the damper wide open. As long as the smoke was going up the chimney, I figured we were fine. But then someone in the bathroom ran the exhaust fan. It never occurred to us that the bathroom fan created such a strong downdraft in the woodstove. I was in the room with the woodstove the most and got violently ill. We opened the all the windows and doors when I finally figure it out. There never was any smoke in the house and the smoke always went up the chimney. But CO must not follow the same principles that smoke does.
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It was winter and we were out of power and my husband was out of town. So I warmed the basement by making a fire in the woodstove out of twisted newspaper, which was all I had. To capture every bit of the heat, I opened the woodstove doors but kept the the damper wide open. As long as the smoke was going up the chimney, I figured we were fine. But then someone in the bathroom ran the exhaust fan. It never occurred to us that the bathroom fan created such a strong downdraft in the woodstove. I was in the room with the woodstove the most and got violently ill. We opened the all the windows and doors when I finally figure it out. There never was any smoke in the house and the smoke always went up the chimney. But CO must not follow the same principles that smoke does.
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