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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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| 1337782 | 2013-04-20 23:03:00 | In my mums house she has a smoke alarm in the hall, yet when she sleeps in her bedroom she closes the door. So I think I am going to install a smoke alarm in her bedroom as well. What do you think ? |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1337783 | 2013-04-20 23:05:00 | When we put our new log burner in the Nelson house as part of the consent process there had to be a smoke alarm outside each bedroom door, if you had a large house then one nearer the kitchen too | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1337784 | 2013-04-20 23:19:00 | My understanding is you need one in each bedroom, in the hall and and in the main living areas. Maybe the fire service have something on their site about this? google is my friend :) www.fire.org.nz more is better i think? |
beetle (243) | ||
| 1337785 | 2013-04-20 23:28:00 | Fire Service put 6 smoke alarms into our house: Lounge Hall Bedrooms 1,2,3 Garage We pay for the replacement batteries. Lurking. |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1337786 | 2013-04-21 00:56:00 | I have one in the lounge, bedrooms and hallway. | Bobh (5192) | ||
| 1337787 | 2013-04-21 00:59:00 | We put our own in. We have one each end of the hall. One of those used to be in the kitchen but everytime I boiled eggs, potatoes or suchlike the alarm went off!! That got moved to the hallway, just outside the kitchen door. In the lounge. Bottom of the stairs. Garage. Bedrooms. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1337788 | 2013-04-21 02:40:00 | I found this text: "For added protection we recommend that you install smoke detectors in the following locations: In every room of your home (except the bathroom). Research indicates that substantial increases in warning time can be obtained with each properly installed, additional alarm. In bedrooms, in anticipation of fires cause by faulty wiring, lamps, appliances, smoking or other hazards. In hallways, or at a distance no greater than 4 metres from the farthest wall and no greater than 8 metres from the next detector. In the centre of a room or hallway, as it is impossible to predict the source of a fire. If it is necessary to place the alarm on a wall, always locate the top of the smoke alarm 30 cm from the ceiling. As needed to compensate for closed doors and other obstacles that may interfere with the path of smoke to a detector. Closed doors and other obstacles may also prevent occupants from hearing an alarm." |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 1337789 | 2013-04-21 02:42:00 | I put my smoke alarms in the box where all the instruction manuals go. I know they won't be disturbed there, and should any manual spontaneously self-combust, the alarm is right handy to the scene. I don't know if instruction manuals are prone to this sort of thing, I haven't looked, but there's a lot of paper of varying antiquity and plenty of dust I imagine so better safe than sorry. Also the box lid has good acoustic properties so I don't have to worry about finding the alarm hush button. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1337790 | 2013-04-21 02:43:00 | I would think you would have them wherever smoke is not normally. So garage seems pointless if it's used as a workshop. Kitchen not ideal. Every other room yes. | hueybot3000 (3646) | ||
| 1337791 | 2013-04-21 02:58:00 | 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. |
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