wireless smoke alarm

[kenmac]

Since My house is about 21 yrs old. It has the old type somke alarms. If I were to have a fire in the full basement & that smoke alarm went off . I would never hear it upstairs. New code requires the smoke detectors communicate with each other so, if 1 alarm goes off they all go off. Not wanting to rewire my house for the new somke detectors I was thinking about these Kidde DC Operated Wireless Smoke Alarm - 0919-9999 at The Home Depot


Anyone have these in their home ??? Sounds like a better idea than rewiring the house

 

[Mousefield]

I have two hard wired smoke detectors in my 11 year old house, one on the main floor and one on the upper, put in as per code. I am sometimes a very deep sleeper and we had two smoke detectors added to our security system when the house was built. The crawl space has a heat detector next to the backup electrical furnace for our heat pump. The 30 watt siren is close to our bedroom upstairs. Nice thing is even if we are not home it will still protect us as they are on a monitored security system. If you have animals in the house it protects them as well. Adding a smoke detector (that you can hear) is a great thing, more people die from smoke than buglers. Not familiar with the wireless one you are looking at but do know wireless products are very good now days. Looks like the Kidde DC smoke alarm will do what you want, says it is: Interconnected smoke alarms provide an earlier warning to fire because they link together so that when one alarm sounds, they all sound.

 

[Inspector507]

Anyone have these in their home ??? Sounds like a better idea than rewiring the house

I recommend those to anyone wanting to add more to their home without tearing up wall finishes. What our State Code requires is that they communicate with each other. Those fit the bill.

 

[ragkar]

Linked alarms would be a disaster in my house. Every time, about once a week, that I roast coffee beans one of my detectors goes off even though there's no visible smoke. If I had to run around turning off five alarms it would be rough.

 

[Mousefield]

Linked alarms would be a disaster in my house. Every time, about once a week, that I roast coffee beans one of my detectors goes off even though there's no visible smoke. If I had to run around turning off five alarms it would be rough.

Glad it only coffee beans that are getting roasted. :laughing::licking:

 

[Cat_Driver]

I made the mistake of going on vacation without changing the back up batteries on my 9 smoke detectors.

Nothing worse than having the neighbor call when your camping 1000 miles form home and he says my whole house is BLARING with alarms going off. HE thought alarm but it was the smoke detectors wired in. Once one hoes off they ALL go off.

This year I took them all down before I left on vacation and locked them in the cab of my truck in the drive way. NO way was I getting a call this year.

 

[LBrown59]

Linked alarms would be a disaster in my house. Every time, about once a week, that I roast coffee beans one of my detectors goes off even though there's no visible smoke. If I had to run around turning off five alarms it would be rough.

I ' d think it would make it more dificult to determine where the fire actually was also.

 

[timswi]

I ' d think it would make it more dificult to determine where the fire actually was also.

Primary concern should be to get out then assess the situation from outside. Houses can be replaced, families can't.

 

[kenmac]

Primary concern should be to get out then assess the situation from outside. Houses can be replaced, families can't.

I agree. If 1 goes off just get out. Doesn't matter where it's burning.

 

[ragkar]

Oh no. My coffee bean roasting smoke is of no consequence. It happens all the time. There's no flame and I'm always right there watching the roast. I just have to press the shhh button on the alarm. Now if all five alarms were going off then I'd have to run around the house temporarily disabling the alarms.
And if I was doing that, I would not be monitoring the ongoing roast. That part is dangerous.
I hope that everyone is aware that there are two types of detectors. The ion type that detects small not-visible particles and the optical type that detects visible smoke. I have both types and one with a dual detector. It is the ion detector that goes off when I roast beans.

 

[Mousefield]

Oh no. My coffee bean roasting smoke is of no consequence. It happens all the time. There's no flame and I'm always right there watching the roast. I just have to press the shhh button on the alarm. Now if all five alarms were going off then I'd have to run around the house temporarily disabling the alarms.
And if I was doing that, I would not be monitoring the ongoing roast. That part is dangerous.
I hope that everyone is aware that there are two types of detectors. The ion type that detects small not-visible particles and the optical type that detects visible smoke. I have both types and one with a dual detector. It is the ion detector that goes off when I roast beans.

Usually smoke detectors should not be put in areas were there will be lots of false alarms. Kind of defeats the purpose. Places like kitchens, near fire places and wood stoves and inside or just outside bathrooms are poor choices. I guess where you roast coffee is another one. Can you move the smoke detector in that location so it will not false alarm as much? Many location were they know they will have lots of fumes will put in heat detectors instead of smoke detector, like garages, warehouses were they have propane forklifts etc.

 

[ragkar]

I roast in the kitchen next to the range downdraft fan. The detector that give me false alarms is in a hallway next to the bedrooms.

 

[dmccarty]

Usually smoke detectors should not be put in areas were there will be lots of false alarms. Kind of defeats the purpose. Places like kitchens, near fire places and wood stoves and inside or just outside bathrooms are poor choices.

The problem is the building code. NC code requires a smoke alarm in every bedroom and outside of every bedroom door.

Right outside our bedroom door is the wood stove so there is a smoke detector. Given our open house design any smoke dumped out of the stove rapidly runs to the other end of the house and hits a wall. Right were there is another smoke alarm.

In our kitchen anything burnt on the stove will quickly send smoke to a smoke detector. The only solution is to keep the wifey away from the stove.....



Later,
Dan