Installing Smoke Alarms in Your Home

Let’s talk about your first line of defense, the smoke detector. Now if you own a home, you should know that you should have one of this but you may not know what kind to have or where exactly to locate it in your home so here’s the deal. For residential use, there are two basic types; optical sensors and annotation sensors. Now the optical units are less prone to faults alarm from kitchen steam and that sort of thing but they tend to react more quickly to smoldering smoky fires. The annotation sensors are a little less expensive but are better at catching flaming or hot fire so which do you choose? Well the answer maybe both.

Now, although they cost a little more, some manufacturers now offer detectors that include both types of sensors in one unit for even better protection. In order for them to their job, well they have to be in the right location, which means at least one on every level of your home. Preferably close to the bedroom so that they can detect smoke quickly and alert your family to the danger.

Now how they do that is another matter. Some like this one have the option of a police alarm instead of just the traditional beeping sound plus this one when uses a wireless signal to communicate with other units and other parts of your home so that when one alarm sounds they all sound. The voice alarm even it identifies the area where the smoke is detected that’s a great idea for the larger or multi-level houses because early detection is your best defense against fire.


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