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Where To Install Your Detector
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 apparatus should be installed in every room containing a fuel burning appliance. Additional
apparatus may be installed to ensure that adequate warning is given for occupants in other rooms, by
locating apparatus in:
• remote rooms in which the occupant(s) spend considerable time whilst awake and from which they may
not be able hear an alarm from apparatus 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 apparatus is limited,
the following points should be considered when deciding where best to put the apparatus:
• locate the apparatus in a room containing a flueless or open-flued appliance, and
• locate apparatus 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
apparatus 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 apparatus should be
put just outside the room so that the alarm may be heard more easily. Alternatively, a remote alarm
siren may be connected to a type A apparatus located in a room(s) containing a fuel-burning appliance.
