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How Many Smoke Detectors Do You Have
How Many Smoke Detectors Do You Have?
Flat or house or mansion how many smoke detectors do you have and what type? Where I live the owner has one in the lower hallway and got annoyed with me for buying one for my room and totally insulted when I tried to give her one for her self in her own bedroom. The advice is that each bedroom should have one above and beyond those installed in the lower communal areas. So how many do you have and where are they |
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I haven't got any.......
![]() I've had two the first one started ringing in the middle of the night for no apparent reason so I took the battery out and disabled it the second one was fitted by the Fire Brigade about 3 months ago....but within two hours of them leaving it fell off the ceiling and broke on the floor and I couldn't put it back together so I chucked it away (I cut the battery out first so it wouldn't start ringing in a landfill somewhere in five years time) |
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We have two which are directly connected to the electronics, one in the kitchen and one on the upstairs landing. We live in a semi-detached three bed house.
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I haven't got any.......
![]() I've had two the first one started ringing in the middle of the night for no apparent reason so I took the battery out and disabled it the second one was fitted by the Fire Brigade about 3 months ago....but within two hours of them leaving it fell off the ceiling and broke on the floor and I couldn't put it back together so I chucked it away (I cut the battery out first so it wouldn't start ringing in a landfill somewhere in five years time) ![]() ![]() ![]() Get your self down asda swing and buy a smoke detector.. im going to worry about you now.
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I have two which both went off the other week when I had a rather unfortunate incident with a candle and the kitchen floor..
At 2am |
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None. There was one in the hallway in my flat but it broke about 10 years ago.
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None. There was one in the hallway in my flat but it broke about 10 years ago.
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Thank you for your kind offer of a Christmas sleep over but I find I am busy that night.
![]() ![]() ![]() Get your self down asda swing and buy a smoke detector.. im going to worry about you now. ![]() It never really occurred to me to do it myself......
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if it is broke, don't fix it
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I suppose I could buy one........both the ones I've had have been fitted by 'officials'
It never really occurred to me to do it myself...... ![]() |
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They get on my nerves. They don't like sausages or toast.
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I have one in the hallway outside all the rooms and one in the kitchen.
Fire service replaced them both last year. |
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Three bed, two story house. I have two. One in the stairwell, near the bottom, one on the landing outside the main bedroom.
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Everybody should have two that work..
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Everybody should have two that work..
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Bit excessive in a small flat.
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I've just remembered, the one in the kitchen is a heat alarm/detector rather than a fire alarm.
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The more the merrier, remember you can use them to make a mini nuclear reactor if you know what you are doing and not melt a cooker.
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Four, my house is quite long so two up, two down.
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especially a small flat that is never on fire
![]() Edit: looked it up myself - smoking, cooking and misuse of equipment. Well I don't do any of those (cooking rarely ). 70% of dwelling fires and 65% of dwelling fire fatalities occurred in homes with a smoke alarm in the last year with published stats.
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Well what are people doing in their homes that causes them to need so many smoke alarms? Or are we living in a land of dodgy electrics?
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I live opposite a block of flats that is elderly people only, I bet they are glad they have theirs considering the fire engine is here at least twice a week!
Another interesting stat, fires are most likely to occur between 7 and 8pm which sounds like when people would be coming home from work. |
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Just the one at the top of the stairs (live in a one bed flat). It does work my husband has set it off before 😆
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4 bed house, 5 alarms including 2 that are radio linked (a heat activated one in the kitchen and normal one in the upstairs hall).
They take about 5 minutes to fit and cost under a tenner for two standard ones so I find it hard to believe when people don't have them. |
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). 70% of dwelling fires and 65% of dwelling fire fatalities occurred in homes with a smoke alarm in the last year with published stats.