Babies and young children breathe at a faster rate than adults.
This fact means if a gas appliance in your home is producing even a small amount of carbon monoxide, your child will be absorbing it at a higher rate, making them significantly more vulnerable to Carbon Monoxide Poisoning than you. — (Does that make sense?)
Consequently, you could feel absolutely fine, but your baby or young child could be suffering with a headache, dizziness and tiredness as the levels of Carbon Monoxide in their body rise, potentially leading to long term brain and heart damage.
For anyone thinking, My Children are okay, I have a carbon monoxide alarm and it hasn't gone off!
There are a few things worth knowing about those alarms:
- Most standard alarms ignore low levels below 30ppm — (the kind that won't kill, but could silently harm a developing brain over time.)
- They have an expiry date. — (Do you know when yours expires?)
- They need to be positioned correctly relative to your gas appliances. — (Is yours?)
Aside from the limitation of CO Alarms, just out of curiousity, how much did your alarm cost . . . £10? . . . £40?
As a responsible parent, are you truly comfortable placing your child's safety in the hands of a £40 device. . . that may be expired, incorrectly placed, and blind to low-level exposure?
A Thorough Gas Safety Inspection.
Please note that I said a Gas Safety Inspection and not just a Gas Safety Certificate!
A thorough Gas Safety Inspection isn't the cheapest thing you'll buy this year. But if I asked you to put a price on your family's lives, i'm guessing that wouldn't be cheap either would it - so does it really make sense to protect the most valuable thing in your world with the cheapest option available?
I think you already know the answer to that.
A Gas Safety Certificate is essentially a receipt you get when a company has carried out a Gas Safety Inspection in your property - it's simply a form generated on an iPad or another tablet at the end of the visit that records the results of the Gas Safety Inspection. Every company issues the same one and it costs nothing to produce.
When a company offers a Gas Safety Certificate for £60 and is walking out the door less than 30 minutes after arriving, you need to ask yourself just how thorough their inspection was?
If you just want a certificate, there are cheaper companies out there - and we'll be the first to say so.
However, if you have read this much of this page, I am going to make an assumption about you and you can decide if i'm right?
When you chose your baby's pram, you didn't go straight to the cheapest one on the shelf, you probably paid extra for the one you trusted to keep them safe and comfortable because some things are too valuable to take a chance on? — i'm right arent I?
Given the fact that the Gas Safety Certificate is nothing more than a reciept for a Gas Safety Inspection of your property, do you really want the cheaper company that will be in a rush to get to the next job of the day undertaking this inspection in your home or do you want one that price their services to allow them the time needed to provide a more thorough service?
Why choose Exclusive Trades?
At Exclusive Trades we work on a fixed price basis, we will not charge you by the hour where, The longer the job takes — The more profit the company makes!
All of our work is carried out to a very high standard.
If you want a thorough Gas Safety Inspection and you are happy to have Freddy in your home, make your appointment now.
Don't hesitate, book your appointment now!
Without a doubt, the best time to have any work done on your Heating & Gas system is in the summer months when you don't need it.
Imagine your inspection reveals a problem with your boiler or gas supply — would you rather find out now, in summer, when you don't need your heating. . . or on a freezing night in January, when your children are cold and you're facing a few days wait for spare parts to arrive?
Now makes more sense, doesn't it.
Book your summer inspection now, while availability is good and winter feels far away.