carbon monoxide

[Heather]

This was weird.. Cooked cauliflower cheese and roasties in the kitchen... being a slob for the evening we ate in the lounge, rather than dining room or kitchen.
Just finishes the meal when our carbon monoxide alarm triggered ... very loudly!.
Confused and concerned as we had nothing going to trigger it (wood burning fire not in use), but following safety lines we rang the gas board.
They were with us within 2 hours. Checked everything, nil found faulty. But by law ... you guessed it... turned off the gas!
Got connected next day by gas engineer... BUT by chance I Googled it all... and cooking cauliflower can trigger CM alarms!!!. So eating it near an alarm seems to do the same. We live and learn

 

[Millet]

I bet sprouts would blow the CM alarm up once they have gone through the gut..

 

[beebopper]

I bet sprouts would blow the CM alarm up once they have gone through the gut..

No, you are thinking of hydrogen sulphide.

 

[Millet]

No, you are thinking of hydrogen sulphide.

No arse bomb's , obviously i was messing about, i wont go anal on this.. lol

 

[Gilberdyke John]

This was weird.. Cooked cauliflower cheese and roasties in the kitchen... being a slob for the evening we ate in the lounge, rather than dining room or kitchen.
Just finishes the meal when our carbon monoxide alarm triggered ... very loudly!.
Confused and concerned as we had nothing going to trigger it (wood burning fire not in use), but following safety lines we rang the gas board.
They were with us within 2 hours. Checked everything, nil found faulty. But by law ... you guessed it... turned off the gas!
Got connected next day by gas engineer... BUT by chance I Googled it all... and cooking cauliflower can trigger CM alarms!!!. So eating it near an alarm seems to do the same. We live and learn

One block of student flats were on contract maintenance which includes gas appliances. In one flat the student put up a colour change spot CO detector. Noticed it had turned black one Sunday morning so called the maintenance service. Absolutely no fault could be found. Same thing the following weekend. Same result no fault found.
After a series of calls and detective work it transpired that the student entertained his girlfriend to a candlelit takeaway each Saturday night and the candles caused the problem as the detector was sensitive.