Your CO Alarm Ignores Slow Leaks

Cool Talk with Hartzell's | Your HVAC Questions, Answered! · Jun 14, 2026 · 22m · transcript

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HOST A: Here is something that should bother every gas-furnace owner in Oklahoma. The carbon monoxide detector in your hallway, the one you bought at the hardware store for 25 bucks, is built by federal regulation to ignore the kind of CO leak that will quietly poison your family over the course of a winter. HOST B: That is a sentence I want you to back up. Because I think most people assume their CO detector is the safety net.

I'm Dave Hartzell at Hartzell's Heat & Air in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. 45 years in the trade, Master HVAC license. On Cool Talk I cover the stuff central…