Owners of older properties in the Vancouver Lower Mainland are reducing winter home health and safety risks by performing annual tune-up maintenance to detect carbon monoxide leaks in their gas furnaces, fireplaces, or boilers.
They’re discovering how a little help from a licensed gas fitter professional can go a long way toward keeping Canadian families comfortable and happy.
Gas Maintenance and The “Silent Killer”
For example, making important decisions about the care and maintenance of gas appliances is said to be easier when carbon monoxide (CO) isn’t leaking into your home.
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas produced during the incomplete burning of fossil fuels. Penn Medicine says breathing carbon monoxide starves the body of oxygen, replacing it in the bloodstream with poison.
Johns Hopkins Medicine notes that most carbon monoxide exposures happen during winter. In addition, Vancouver Coast Health calls it “the silent killer”.
According to the survivor of a Sunshine Coast vacation home gas leak incident inhaled carbon monoxide fumes impair good judgment. “By the time you’re really sick, there’s no critical thinking,” says a report published in the Vancouver Sun.
How Can Vancouverites Fight Against Chilly Winters
Poisonous carbon monoxide leaks are “more likely to occur in older properties from faulty furnaces, hot water heaters, stoves, propane fridges or chimneys,” says a Vancouver General Hospital doctor named in the Sun’s report.
Troubleshooting look-ahead diagnostics performed during annual maintenance by a licensed professional can detect these and many other basic gas appliance operational safety issues.
If the maintenance program for your furnace, fireplace, boiler, or water heater is running on empty may we suggest booking an appointment with one of our technicians?
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