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Smoke alarm advice please
littlewren
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My daughter has started setting her washing machine to come on at 5.45 am to take advantage of Economy 7. She & her partner wake up around 6am and doze until about 6.30. She leaves her kitchen door open at night as she said that if there was a fire in the kitchen, having it closed would mean that the smoke wouldn't reach the smoke alarm -which is just in the hallway - quick enough to let them know upstairs in their bedroom before it really took hold. I told her that she must shut all doors as it holds back the fire for around 20 minutes, but I wondered what you thought about whether the smoke would alert the smoke alarm before a fire really took hold?
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For the sake of a fiver or so, tell her to fit a smoke alarm in the kitchen and then shut the door.make the most of it, we are only here for the weekend.
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Presumably daughter is worried about setting smoke alarm off if installed in kitchen , when burning the toastNever, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.0
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You'd need a heat alarm rather than a smoke alarm fitted in the kitchen.xxx Nikki xxx0
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She doesn't want a smoke alarm in the kitchen for the reason that Dan-Dan gave.
Edit: I've just read that heat alarms mustn't be fitted within 5 feet of a fluorescent light, which unfortunately they have at the moment, so that's out. She's also got a very small kitchen, so a heat alarm would keep going off. Back to square one. :-(Money, money, money, must be funny, in the rich man's World!0 -
If the washing machine did catch fire - heaven forbid :-( - would the smoke go underneath the kitchen door to hit the smoke alarm in the hall?Money, money, money, must be funny, in the rich man's World!0
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That is only advisable due to unwanted electrical interference possibly triggering a false alarm, the detector in our galley kitchen is mounted less than 300mm from the fluorescent light and hasn't caused any problems at all.littlewren wrote: »I've just read that heat alarms mustn't be fitted within 5 feet of a fluorescent light, which unfortunately they have at the moment, so that's out.
That's why you use one designed to detect "rate of rise" rather than fixed temp.littlewren wrote: »She's also got a very small kitchen, so a heat alarm would keep going off. Back to square one. :-(
Smoke rises, but it probably would once the kitchen has burnt for long enough and filled with smoke in it's entirety (ie, when it's way too late).littlewren wrote: »If the washing machine did catch fire - heaven forbid :-( - would the smoke go underneath the kitchen door to hit the smoke alarm in the hall?Understeer is when you hit a wall with the front of your car
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