The image is a screenshot of a news article from a website called "Lucky Seven". The article is dated Wednesday, October 22, 2008 and is titled "The gas fireplace chugs along all winter: in fact, it's the only source of heat for the entire apartment. We don't require much heating as the temperature, even during the freezing of January, seldom get much below freezing in Metro-Vancouver. That's zero in the metric scale. Think about it. Okay, technically we're an even number, but you know what I mean. That fact plus the fact that we've only got south facing windows, means we're energy misers. We heat with natural gas, so I think it is a good idea to have a carbon monoxide detector. I believe I purchased an old Nighthawk during the first winter on Carnarvon Street. As July was the tenth anniversary of the company, Carbon Monoxide alarms are only designed to last about a half dozen years ago. So, I tossed the old one and bought a new Kiddie model yesterday. This one says that it will begin to automatically beep after seven years of use. There'll be no forgetting. Seven years seems like cheap insurance. Posted by Dennis Sylvester Hurd at 6:11 am. Categories: maintenance, weather, and weather.