Fire Alarms

[Schnakes]

Hiya - just a quick question - does anyone know how many fire alarms we are supposed to have? I just went to buy one and it said "one on each floor and one in each bedroom"!! At £40 a go - I think thats a bit excessive???

Sorry - that was a really boring question, I know!!!

[nipper]

We have one on each landing (3 storey house) all wired into the electrics with battery back up and a carbon monoxide detector by the door in the lounge where the woodburner is. Not sure about every room though. Why not get your local fireman round and ask him

[hectors house]

I have one in the hall and one on the landing - if the fire is downstairs and we are asleep in bed then both smoke alarms will go off and wake us up. Surely you only need a smoke alarm in each bedroom if maybe you are a guest house, a student shared house or you smoke in bed!

Often if you phone your local fire station they will come round (in full uniform ) inspect your house and give out free smoke alarms if you don't have enough. And £40 seems a lot of money - have you looked in Argos they are less than £20.

[JCrakers]

I have a three story and have one on each landing/ hallway

[loocyloo]

phone your local fire station and ask them to do a home visit! might be lucky and they come with a fire engine too !!!

i've got one in my hall and one on my landing.

x

[cathtee]

I had 2 very nice young firemen come and install my fire alarms they put one in the lounge/hall and one on the landing free of charge
I mentioned I was a childminder and they didn't say I needed more but worth checking you may get a nice fireman come to yours

[caz3007]

I have lots, but its cos I am worried about fire. My son has one in his bedroom cos I got worried when he was little if a fire broke out in his bedroom. One in my childminding room which is adjacent to the kitchen, one in the hall and one on the landing.

Imagine our worries when one went off in the night, no idea why though

[JCrakers]

Ours sometimes go off in the middle of the night if a very small insect like a spider or a moth gets inside. Scares the living daylights out of me every time....
I have to get the blinkin hoover out and clean it if I can't find the insect as once it went of three times in an hour. I wasn't impressed...lol

[mum24]

[QUOTE=loocyloo;1187459]phone your local fire station and ask them to do a home visit! might be lucky and they come with a fire engine too !!!

i've got one in my hall and one on my landing.


Is that fire engines...?

[scottishlass]

I am in Scotland and we have to have mains powered alarms for childminding , have both in the hall - one upstairs and one downstairs - was advised only needed to get one in the bedroom too if I was using a bedroom for minding and the children would be sleeping in there - did not register any of my bedrooms so didn't have to do this. I do have babies but as they sleep in the livingroom/playroom and I am there too I didnty have tp get any extra