Carbon monoxide and combustion at the stay

Invisible and not décor

Carbon monoxide has no useful smell you can trust. A gas heater in a sealed January room, a stove you “just crack the door for”, a car idling in a closed yard against a bedroom window — those are how people sleep into a headache they do not wake from correctly. A detector where you burn fuel is part of the house, like the lock.

Tick it on the listing only if it works. A dead battery is a listing miss when something goes wrong.

Where detectors belong

Sleeping rooms and the kitchen if you cook on gas. Near, not on top of, the appliance. Test them when you walk the house the afternoon before check-in. Replace batteries on a date you remember — the quiet month, not August. Write on the note how to light the stove without smoking the room.

A combination smoke and CO alarm is fine. Smoke alarms on each floor still matter for fire. Dry-season fire is a different page.

No grill, no oven as a heater

Never a mangal, camp stove, or charcoal indoors. Never the oven left open as heat. Never a generator in the room they sleep in. Balcony grills need air and a rule about wind — Caspian gusts throw sparks. The house note says where they may cook, and that indoors is not that place.

If you do not allow any grill, say so before they pay. A surprise ban at 22:00 is a fight. A silent grill in the living room is 103.

If something feels wrong

Headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness — everyone outside, then 103 or 112. Open windows only if people cannot get out yet; the first move is out. Do not tell them to “just open the door a bit” and go back to sleep. AbsoluteCover does not replace an ambulance.

Then Absolute’s 24-hour line so the reservation file exists. Close nights until the appliance is safe.

The numbers

103 ambulance. 112 the general emergency number. 104 if you smell gas and it is a mains question. 101 if there is flame. Get people out before you diagnose. The inbox is last.

Preparing the house for emergencies has the print sheets — hang the guest pages where they say. This article is combustion. That one is the pack.

After an incident

Do not reopen the night until a person who understands the appliance has looked. Photograph the heater and the detector. Write what you told the guest. A stay that was unsafe is how we open cover and review the listing — not a review you hope they skip.