Do you have a smoke alarm?

Mojisola

sweetcheekz wrote: »

We have 8, all wired into the electrics, if 1 goes off they all go off, they are checked every time my husband uses the grill to cook sausages...Every. Flipping. Time.

There are different types of alarms - do you have the right sort in the kitchen?

http://www.fireservice.co.uk/safety/smoke-alarms

When we redid our kitchen, we had to have a wired-in heat alarm put in but it never goes off when we cook (and, yes, it is working).

marleyboy

We have 2 downstairs and 1 upstairs on the landing, as well as a CM detector by the boiler (just in case).

We ended up disabling the downstairs one as I got fed up of the thing constantly going off whenever I cooked a meal.

girlsmum

i have just had to replace mine, it was bleeping so changed the battery, but it would not work when tested. It was old and i noticed it stated on my old one to replace after 5 years, not sure how true this is but i got a now one, its one that i can push a button to turn off if i need to, but also a toast sensitive one, it was only about £6 so there is no excuse not to have them.

minerva_windsong

We do, and it gets tested fairly often (usually when we don't open the window/put the extractor fan on when cooking!).

System

There's one in the kitchen and one at the top of the stairs

Never tested them though..i can't reach them

sweetcheekz

Mojisola wrote: »

There are different types of alarms - do you have the right sort in the kitchen?

http://www.fireservice.co.uk/safety/smoke-alarms

When we redid our kitchen, we had to have a wired-in heat alarm put in but it never goes off when we cook (and, yes, it is working).

They were fitted when we were refurbished (Military Housing), so here when we moved in, we have 1 in each bedroom (3) Hall, landing, lounge, dining room and kitchen (heat detector). He is just really, really, bad at cooking sausages.

ifstar

DUTR wrote: »

That is frequent, I think we've only heard from our local station twice in 20 odd years.

Contact the local station and they will happily come out and fit some for you free of charge.

Primrose

We have three - one downstairs, one on the landing and one in the loft. (Don't forget the loft if you store inflammable junk up there !) and we test them every six months.

GwylimT

Our smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms are all wired in, they are all tested on a sunday, not until mid afternoon though as I doubt my neighbour would like missing out on his sunday lay in.

mtbbuxton

Married to a Fire Fighter so not having them isn't an option. It's recommended that at least one alarm is fitted on each floor of a property. We also have a CO Detector.

KxMx wrote: »

I live in a council property and it is our responsibility to do smoke alarms, we have battery powered ones that we screwed into the wall ourselves, after the ones here when me moved in died (very old fashioned type).

KxMx I'm hoping you mean you have them screwed to the ceiling as it's extremely important to install smoke alarms horizontally and not vertically. An incorrectly installed alarm will take much longer to activate, during which time any fire may take hold and prevent you escaping.

A tip for remembering to check alarms is to pick a notable date and do it the same time every year - ours are done on #1 son's birthday