Carbon Monoxide/land lord RANT

[BigMat]

RANT!

I am currently sitting in my car outside my house, this is the third night in a row I have been sitting in my car outside my house. We have had a CO leak 3 times now. First day, Friday my wife calls me tells me the alarm is going off, short version, FD comes out, Excel comes out, says its legit, says its too high to be safe without personal O2. Excel says we are clear and ok to go back to business as usual with an card to fix it soonish. Call the Land lord, no return call. At this point 2 CO alarms have read high, ours and the FDS

Next day, 11 pm, Alarms go off again, Call excel call the FD and again levels are too high to go inside, 400s or so. Excel locks up our furnace and says, we can't run it until we are fixxed. Call land lord again, no call back. At this point as we bought a new alarm, 4 seperate alarms have said our CO is high

On monday we finally got our landlord who sent a guy out. Said our alarms were in error, said nothing was wrong and set our furnace up to get going. Suprise, suprise, our alarms are going off yet again, and here I am in the car. As I walked out of the door the level was 295 in the bedroom. So far we have had 6 alarms tell up our CO is high Called the landlord, his words, "you sure its not the alarm?"


Oh I am plenty heated about this one!

end rant, thank you for your time

[Marlin]

7/10

Not enough #%^*

Sorry to hear of the trouble though.. Did they by chance check the flue?

[Great-Kazoo]

call both public service and the firedept. either one of their machines registers close to or above and they will deal with it. i suggest you have enough money to stay in a hotel or friends. Do you have renters ins? if not get it first thing tomorrow morn.

[Irving]

Get renters (I can sell it to you) but your land lord should be paying for you to stay in a hotel till the problem is fixed.

[BigMat]

Agreed, I still have to much trouble with the &$*# and the internet.
Thanks for the advice, Excel is on their way again, and we have vented the house, I am tired of waking up fire fighters. We just have some tired CO alarms. BTW I can recommend First Alert fully now, three times they have saved my wife and I in as many days.

Also with the FD and utilities fixing it. both their machines registered high on two occasions, and the FD vented the house and left both times and Excel puts fix it tags on em and leaves. The land lord just called a terrible crew who left me hanging in the wind and excel cleared it to work which was followed by another set of alarms.

[Bailey Guns]

"...but your land lord should be paying for you to stay in a hotel till the problem is fixed.

I'll bet that's what your attorney would say, too. When it comes to your safety and the safety of your family I think I'd have an attorney remind your uninterested landlord of his legal responsibilities...and liabilities.

[theGinsue]

I certainly wouldn't put up with that much longer without contacting an attorney and getting a hotel room.

I'm glad to hear that (so far) you and your wife are safe. I wouldn't trust that landlord or his hired helpers one bit. If you do choose to stay in a hotel, take your CO2 sensors with you to ensure they don't screw with it.

A little paranoia or even out-of-pocket (until the landlord pays up) is far better than waking up dead. [BTW, I know that you can't actually "wake up dead", it's just a thing I say]

[Ridge]

I'll bet that's what your attorney would say, too. When it comes to your safety and the safety of your family I think I'd have an attorney remind your uninterested landlord of his legal responsibilities...and liabilities.

Even get someone who isnt an attorney to pretend they are over the phone...

[theGinsue]

I've done that before with a landlord. It worked perfectly. Funny thing is that 2 years later the guy who pretended to be an attorney went to law school and actually became an attorney.

If you do this, use someone who thinks fast on their feet (or phone).

[BigMat]

I got lucky on that one, my dad is a lawyer, and he has on occasion made a few phone calls on my wife and I's behalf. It sure is handy to have a letter with some "fill in name here, esq." show up on top of it. He has already been guiding my hand on this one. Get some coaching before I make my demands.