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30 Apr 2017, 1:25 pm

Do you have a smoke detector in your house? Everyone should.



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01 May 2017, 12:46 am

We have 5 in our apartment. One in the living-room, one at the top of the stairs, one in each bedroom, & one in the basement. I don't get why we have one at the top of the stairs cuz the ones in both bedrooms are next to both sides of it.


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01 May 2017, 5:12 am

By law in the UK your landlord should supply one. If you don't have one get on your landlord's case.



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01 May 2017, 5:56 am

I don't. They are not that common in Poland. Besides - wouldn't they go off too often because of the gas oven, fireplace and coal furnace we have? It would be troublesome.



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01 May 2017, 7:41 pm

There is one, but I don't know if it even works or not.


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01 May 2017, 9:30 pm

3 smoke detectors and 2 carbon monoxide detectors.



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02 May 2017, 3:28 am

There is one outside my bedroom, and I think it's the only one we have. In the old house, we had three.

Now I'll have to look to see if we have more than one.


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02 May 2017, 8:03 am

We have just one, but it is extremely loud (right outside the kitchen and often set off if someone burns something in the oven) so I have no doubt it would do it's job admirably and wake everyone in my house up in the event of a fire. It curiously never seems to run out of battery either, beginning to wonder if someone squirreled away a jet engine in the drywall cavities to keep that thing running.


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02 May 2017, 9:16 am

Yes, and it goes off at the weirdest times. The last couple of times it went off, I nearly jumped out of my skin because it was so loud.



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02 May 2017, 9:39 pm

crystaltermination wrote:
We have just one, but it is extremely loud (right outside the kitchen and often set off if someone burns something in the oven) so I have no doubt it would do it's job admirably and wake everyone in my house up in the event of a fire. It curiously never seems to run out of battery either, beginning to wonder if someone squirreled away a jet engine in the drywall cavities to keep that thing running.
The 1s in our apartment have batteries but they are only a backup source of power for when our power goes out.


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03 May 2017, 12:04 pm

nick007 wrote:
crystaltermination wrote:
We have just one, but it is extremely loud (right outside the kitchen and often set off if someone burns something in the oven) so I have no doubt it would do it's job admirably and wake everyone in my house up in the event of a fire. It curiously never seems to run out of battery either, beginning to wonder if someone squirreled away a jet engine in the drywall cavities to keep that thing running.
The 1s in our apartment have batteries but they are only a backup source of power for when our power goes out.

I think mine is exclusively battery powered. Hm, probably it's just me being oblivious to when the batteries are being changed. It's so screamingly loud, surely it uses up a lot of juice quickly. (Especially with my cooking!)


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03 May 2017, 2:12 pm

Yes, I think we actually might have a couple.


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03 May 2017, 4:30 pm

Yes, one, and I think it works.


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19 Jul 2018, 6:15 am

Yes, we have smoke detectors in our apartment. This is very essential as it is an indicator of fire. We also do regular maintenance of the smoke detectors to ensure that it is working properly by contacting the professionals. The residential electrical repair service NJ provides various services. We contact them to install the smoke detectors.



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19 Jul 2018, 11:30 am

Yes six in all, and a fire extinguisher. I am worried about house fires so I am quite careful about it.



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19 Jul 2018, 11:32 am

Have four of them. It is legally required where I live. I'm thinking about getting a couple more.


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