Carbon Monoxide Alarm Legislation Update
In the ever changing regulatory world of Property Management, with effect from 1st October 2022, all properties will be expected to have CO detector fitted in every room that is:

• used partly or wholly as living accommodation, and 

• contains any appliance which burns, or is capable of burning fuel.
   

This will include gas boilers, wooden stoves, open fires, etc.

The only exception to this are rooms where the only fuel burning appliance is a gas cooker. While the legislation does not define a gas cooker precisely, the Government guidance states it is 'any apparatus heated by gas and used for cooking food.'

Where a fire place is purely decorative, and has been blocked off, then a CO alarm will not be required.

Prior to 1 October 2022, this requirement only applied to rooms with a solid fuel burning appliance such as a coal fire.