Common Red Flags to Avoid During Smoke Alarm Installation

Installation of smoke alarms is a specialists’ job. Indeed, when it comes to installing these gadgets there are a lot of factors to be taken into account. In particular, you need to take into consideration quite a few mistakes that have to be avoided at any cost.

Installing smoke alarms near ducts or doors

Experts are of the opinion that installing smoke alarms near the ducts and doors is a mistake. According to them, this can cause them to trigger off a false alarm. That is why, when you hire experts, you will always find them setting these gadgets up at places away from the vents and the ducts, windows, or other outlets.

Installing them too close to the kitchen or bathroom 

People may think that the installation of smoke alarms near the kitchen or bathroom is a good idea. However, this is a mistake if not anything else. While installing them near the kitchen will affect them with heat and the grease, setting a false alarm, yet again, installing them close to the bathroom will result in the moisture constantly getting the better of the gadget. In either case, the gadget will fail eventually. Hence, the professionals, during smoke alarm installation in Ipswich, will always look for vantage points away from the kitchen of the bathroom.

Not installing them at the basement and other rooms

One of the most common mistakes that people commit is that they forget to install these alarms in the basement. A survey conducted revealed recently that only 73 percent of the respondents have a smoke alarm in their basement. Forgetting the basement is a mistake. You have to install it in the basement. Besides, you need to have them at the bottom of the staircase that leads you to the upper level.

Besides, you need to have them in every bedroom, outside the bedrooms in the common area, and at every level of your home if it's a multilevel home. Forgetting any of them is a mistake.

Not having the alarms interconnected

You need to keep in mind when you do not interconnect the smoke alarms your security blanket against fire mishaps is only partial. You need to interconnect the alarms without failure, so that they can communicate with each other in the event of a mishap, and set off the alarms collectively, regardless of the origin of the fire. Experts from reputed smoke alarm installation companies in Brisbane will interconnect the gadgets to come up with a comprehensive and foolproof firm alarm system for your household.

Installing identical types of smoke alarms

There are two types of smoke alarms – ionization and photoelectric alarms. While the former one responds to actual flames, the latter is triggered off by smoldering fires. Hence, not installing both these types of alarms in a mix and match fashion means you are only half secured against fire. have both of them installed so that any type of fire can be detected.