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The stats show 49% of dwelling fatalities are in the over 65s. I'm guessing that is probably in part connected to the fact that they're more likely to be home.
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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1 bed flat and there are 3. I moved into a new build and they were already here.
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I have two one at the bottom of the stairs one at the top, this is more than enough if I don't close the kitchen door when making toast both kick in and only opening all windows and doors and resenting will stop them.
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None, because the slightest thing sets them off and the noise is intolerable. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just flick a switch to turn them on and off when required, but they're not.
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I got 5 - three downstairs and two upstairs, and they are wired ones (with battery backup), and if one goes off, they all go off. When we got the house extended, I got the sparky to put in several of these. They are good quality ones so don't go off when the wife burns toast.
I also have a Carbon Monoxide detector in both rooms where we have a gas appliance, and a portable one which I take on holiday with me. Fully recommend these. |
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Two storey 4 bed house, 2 alarms, one in downstairs hallway, one in upstairs landing. They are connected to mains with back up battery. If one sets off, it triggers second one a few seconds later,
They were installed when the house was built in 2000. Find it a bit worrying the amount of people who don't have a single alarm, and more so at how many people seem happy that they don't have any! I know electric fires are rare these days, but they can still happen, imagine if a fire happened at night, I'd be woken up by the alarms, all those without would never wake up. People always think "it will never happen to me" until it does and it's too late. |
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None, because the slightest thing sets them off and the noise is intolerable. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just flick a switch to turn them on and off when required, but they're not.
I've not had a single false alarm in the last 5 years with ours, however I did make sure I was using the right types in the right places (toast proof in the hall next to the kitchen, heat detector in the kitchen and a mix of the optical/ionising sensors in other rooms). IIRC if they're left without cleaning or are not replaced when the sensor reaches it's EOL (usually marked on the alarm, with our current ones it's under or next to the battery), they can give false alarms. |
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Two storey 4 bed house, 2 alarms, one in downstairs hallway, one in upstairs landing. They are connected to mains with back up battery. If one sets off, it triggers second one a few seconds later,
They were installed when the house was built in 2000. Find it a bit worrying the amount of people who don't have a single alarm, and more so at how many people seem happy that they don't have any! I know electric fires are rare these days, but they can still happen, imagine if a fire happened at night, I'd be woken up by the alarms, all those without would never wake up. People always think "it will never happen to me" until it does and it's too late. The number of usb/phone chargers that fail basic safety requirement and are badly designed is worryingly high, and from memory they now account for a large number of the total fires that are reported (and probably more where someone has spotted the problem before it's gone to open flame and not reported it). |
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Two smoke alarms and one apparent oven door alarm which irritates the hell out of me.
Also a Carbon Monoxide alarm in the kitchen near the boiler. |
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I set it off everytime I cook something! |
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Three bed flat - one per bedroom, one in living room, one in hall and a smoke detector/heat alarm in kitchen. They were here when we moved in, and had to replace them all, being over 10 years old. Worth it for peace of mind.
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Eight, one in each habital room. Two of them have lights built in so ten 9 volt batteries every Christmas Eve to change.
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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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One.
I set it off everytime I cook something! |
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Okay, what were you doing on the kitchen floor with a candle at 2am?
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Can't believe people are living in places without smoke alarms.
In the middle of the night when an electrical component in any of your various plugged in devices fails, the smoke will creep in and get you. They do need replacing every 10 years or so, they should all have expiry dates printed on them. Otherwise they do start giving false alarms. Likewise, if you've got a smoke alarm in your kitchen, of course you'll get false alarms as it's in the wrong place. Darwins theory I guess. |
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Semi-detatched 3 bedroom house.
2, one at the bottom of the stairs and the other at the top of the stairs outside the bedrooms. Both wired into the electric with back up batteries |
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Check out your local Fire Service website, they will most likely turn up with a big red fire engine,at your convenience, and fit two, free of charge.
Of course alternatively you could just leave it and you could get a big red fire engine with flashing blue lights, not at your convenience, but at 4am. 😊👍 |
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one in the hall
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None, because the slightest thing sets them off and the noise is intolerable. It wouldn't be so bad if you could just flick a switch to turn them on and off when required, but they're not.
I'm amazed at some on here who haven't got one . Unbelievably stupid! |
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They get on my nerves. They don't like sausages or toast.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fireangel-S.../dp/B003H2W66E mind you, I don't know if it's sausage proof too! |
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1 in the hallway - 1 bedroom flat.
2 carbon monoxide alarms - had bought one and when the heating was changed recently they put another one over the door where the boiler is fitted, only noticed when they left. |
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I started this thread because my land lady treated me like I was handing her a burning dog turd when I bought her a smoke detector for her bedroom.. she was adamant that the house with three bedrooms only needed one smoke detector in the lower hall.
But the land lady is someone who likes to have candles in her living room of a night and isnt scared of the odd tipple, not a great combination. Ive discreetly installed one in two of the bedrooms, as a back up to the one downstairs which is supposed it seems to save us even if the fire starts upstairs and oh, wait heat and smoke rise.. that could be an issue. In my old place the flat next to me went up in a blaze twice, they didnt have smoke detectors but the block did and mine went off before the blocks did. Its not fun to wake up to acrid smoke I wouldnt recommend it apart from the waking up. I did enjoy the quips on this thread, but people seriously need to evaluate is it worth not spending a few quid on an alarm versus suffocating to death or worse in their sleep. |
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5, all mains connected.
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