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| Thread ID: 130932 | 2013-04-20 23:03:00 | Where do you put your smoke alarms ? | Digby (677) | PC World Chat |
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| 1337792 | 2013-04-21 03:20:00 | The document that comes with the smoke alarm says that they should not be put inside the following but ok outside of it like on the corridor - garage, bathrooms, kitchens probably due to cooking smoke, welding, soldering etc ... We put them ouside the kitchen, in the bedrooms and in the lounge/dining. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1337793 | 2013-04-21 04:52:00 | Generally, you know when there is a fire when you're awake. So the idea is to warn you when you're sleeping. So in hallways and bedrooms is the most important. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1337794 | 2013-04-21 07:50:00 | We don't have any at the moment. But the one we did had was simply on the wall near our front door. Even there it was able to detect smoke from the kitchen. Anyways, if it went off when I was asleep, I wouldn't even notice, as nothing wakes me when I'm asleep. An extremely loud party could be going on, and i'd still be asleep. |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1337795 | 2013-04-21 09:16:00 | Never got around to getting any, they'd just annoy me. Plus you need a ladder to reach my ceilings. If there were kids in the house I'd probably get some. But otherwise what everyone else said, one in every room except possibly the kitchen and bathroom. Reminds me of the time when our smoke alarm started indicating low battery by chirping every minute or so in our bedroom. This was in the early hours of the morning and I had to get up and get the ladder from the garage to reach the alarm and silence it. Have made sure we replace the batteries every year from then on.... |
user (1404) | ||
| 1337796 | 2013-04-21 09:22:00 | I bet that there are a lot of people around who pull the battery out to silence that annoying chirping and forget to replace the battery. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1337797 | 2013-04-21 10:03:00 | I suspect that if any of our smoke alarms started chirping in the middle of the night, I would be left in no doubt whatsoever where it should be put. I might even get shown where to put it if it ever happened again. :horrified :blush: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1337798 | 2013-04-21 11:35:00 | Pin pointing the "chirping" is the hardest part. | Lurking (218) | ||
| 1337799 | 2013-04-21 20:47:00 | I went little crazy with my fire alarm / security system. The fire alarms are hard-wired into the security alarm. They run off the alarm system battery, if needed. Each sensors uses a "EOL" resistor, to detect cable problems. Everything is hooked up to an SMS modem and the Internet. Beside the siren, I get a texts and emails. I also have exterior and interior cameras, accessible by the Internet. I know it's completely over the top. Ah, the joys of being single with no kids and disposable income. :cool: |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1337800 | 2013-04-22 07:15:00 | I'm an alarm tech. I've talked to loads of people that were convinced their alarm keypad was beeping, when it was a smoke alarm with a low battery. Went to one such call out where the client had a smoke alarm wrapped in a blanket in their hot water cupboard. Took a long time to find, but even then they were still convinced that it was the alarm that was doing the beeping. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1337801 | 2013-04-22 07:23:00 | Pin pointing the "chirping" is the hardest part.Yeah, I spent two days trying to find the cricket in my food pantry once before figuring out it was the smoke detector in the hallway. :rolleyes: | Jen (38) | ||
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