Hello all,
Not sure how to tackle this issue but had an Airbnb guest who left the gas on after making a meal in the kitchen around 1am-2am.
I woke up around 7.30am with my phone ringing from a client but I felt so awful and tired I decided not to answer it and planned to call them back later in the day (which is not like me at all) I usually sleep very well and wake up feeling refreshed. I immediately fell back to sleep and woke up around 10.30am, MUCH later than I normally do. I still felt totally awful, as if I had a headache and a weird hangover but forced myself to get up. After entering the kitchen I found that the small burner on the hob was lit. I turned it off and then immediately went to open the guest bedroom as I was concerned that my guest might have had CO poisoning! Fortunately they had left for the day so I messaged them and they said they knew nothing about the gas being left on and claimed they didn't cook this morning or last night (however there were washed up pots and pans on the drainer - I have a dishwasher so never leave pots and pans on the drainer)
The guest who is staying has been here about a week now and often cooks very late at night (1am ish). I went to bed around 12 midnight and I last cooked at 8.30pm, however I stayed in the open plan kitchen / lounge until midnight watching TV. If I'd left the gas on I think I would have noticed in the 3.5 hours I stayed in that room. After I went to bed shortly after midnight I did hear my guest cooking in the kitchen but thought nothing of it.
What do I do? I don't want to treat my adult guests like children and put signs up saying 'turn gas off after use' but I feel after this incident I may have to. I do have CO detectors but not one in the kitchen and the one in my bedroom oddly failed to go off. After looking on google it appears that I did have mild symptoms of CO poisoning - dizziness, headache, extreme tiredness, lethargy (I rarely drink and I don't suffer with anything like extreme tiredness) however because the burner was left lit there was fortunately less CO in the air that if it had been left unlit. With the guest claiming no knowledge of anything and denying use of the kitchen despite there being obvious evidence of someone using pots and pans earlier today I don't know what to do. After they denied it I decided not to pursue it with the guest any further.