Are carbon Monoxide detectors required in dwellings that do not heat with oil, gas, natural gas, kerosene, coal, wood or propane?  If you heating you house with electric, an ASPH or Geothermal, does the law still require you to have a Carbon Monoxide detector on every floor?

State or local laws will probably need to be reviewed to tell for sure. You can call a local firehouse or building/inspections department for hopefully correct information. They can be purchased for $15-$25 each. Anyone can bring in a kerosene space heater at any time, so I'd just get the detector to play it safe. I like safe and I like cheap too, but safe takes precedence.

P.S.  Guess I should get a gas detector now that i said that.  Thanks a lot for your post (sarcastic)! 

Posted By geome on 18 Mar 2010 04:47 PM
.... They can be purchased for $15-$25 each. Anyone can bring in a kerosene space heater at any time, so I'd just get the detector to play it safe ....

I guess you right, the relatives are always bring over there kerosene heater over all the time when the visit in the winter. They don't trust those weird geothermal systems.
  

Where I live, we are governed by IRC 2006 now.   Smoke detectors are mandatory (alot of them)  and it is just as easy to get a couple of combo smoke and CO detectors.    They fit in the same brackets.  You certantly need a smoke detector on each floor.
Future owners may decide to get a gas stove, etc.  Mayby the power goes out and your friend Lenny who is house sitting  decides to burn your whole stash of homeade vodka in the living room  to keep warm.  Or mayby you have an attatched garage and did not do such a good job air sealing it from the house. 

Cheers,
Eric

In addition to Lenny (I hope that is not a true story), you never know when a child may decide to experiment with fire in a bedroom or elsewhere.

Our house had one hard wired smoke detector on each floor, per code here 18 years ago. Since then, the code has expanded to include a detector in each bedroom. We bought a wireless unit for each bedroom that talk to each other (when one sounds they all sound). We even bought one replacement hard wired unit/wireless unit that ties even the hard wired units into the wireless units. Not the cheapest option, but it makes us sleep better with 1 child upstairs and our master bedroom on the first floor. We have one CO detector in our room and one in the child's room. I figure that's enough, except for maybe the gas leak detector I mentioned earlier.