Fire Alarms

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How many fire alarms do people generally have in their house?

Just one in one room?
One in every room?
One upstairs and one downstairs?

markin

Bottom of stairs and top of stairs, and co alarms in any room with a gas fire or boiler.


England wales, to meet Building Regulations

Sedge123

4, well three smoke alarms and one heat detector in the kitchen. Smoke alarms in hallway, landing and attic landing. All mains wired and linked sonic one hoes off they all go off.

Owain_Moneysaver

Every room apart from smallest bedroom. Heat and CO detectors in kitchen. All interlinked with a test/locate switch to identify whether fire or CO.

EssexExile

One in the hall, one on the landing.

markin

It wouldn't hurt to have one in every bedroom nowadays with so many mobile phones over heating and burning.

Ectophile

If you're talking about smoke alarms, I have one upstairs on the landing, and one downstairs.


Don't forget the Carbon Monoxide alarms as well, unless you're all electric. I have one in the room with the gas boiler, and one in the room with the wood burner.

Risteard

The minimum requirement here is a Grade D, Category LD2 system. For a typical house this would be a smoke in the hall, landing and living room(s) and a heat detector in the kitchen and any attached garage. Smokes also to be within 3.5m of all bedrooms. Also regularly heat detector in utility room. Sometimes smoke required in roof space as well.

Also CO detectors in any room containing a solid fuel burning appliance, as well as within 5m of every bedroom.

In the south of Ireland it is rapidly moving towards smoke detection in all rooms.

J_B

markin wrote: »

It wouldn't hurt to have one in every bedroom nowadays with so many mobile phones over heating and burning.

Assuming that you take your phone to bed with you


I don't

theonlywayisup

No fire alarm.

Plenty of smoke alarms, carbon monoxide x 2 and heat alarms x 2.

Seetek

If it’s a single private dwelling I.e. only your family lives there then the post above by Markin is correct. If your home is subject to the Fire Safety Order higher standards are likely to apply.

This may be LD2, LD1 or even a full part 1 system.

Remember though building regs only ask for a minimum standard. Fire prevention is equally as important.