ᐅ Wireless or Hardwired Smoke Alarms? Should They Be Combined? Where to Install Them?
Created on: 28 Dec 2020 22:00
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Hello everyone,
Our single-family house is almost finished, and I’m currently thinking about where to install smoke detectors. Since I want to install a wireless smoke detector in the basement in the utility room (which has a soundproof door), the question now is where else a wireless detector should be installed and where a regular one is sufficient.
Our house is relatively small, with about 60 square meters (645 square feet) of living space per level.
First floor: bathroom, bedroom, dressing room, two children’s rooms, small hallway
Ground floor: entrance area, open staircase leading to the first floor and basement, small storage room, open kitchen, living, and dining area
Basement: utility room (simple soundproof door), office, two storage rooms, small hallway
My idea was to install wireless smoke detectors in the utility room and in the hallways on the ground and first floors. In the living room and all bedrooms, I would install regular smoke detectors without wireless modules.
Does that make sense? Or what do you think? Since the wireless detectors are definitely much more expensive...
Regards,
Michael
Our single-family house is almost finished, and I’m currently thinking about where to install smoke detectors. Since I want to install a wireless smoke detector in the basement in the utility room (which has a soundproof door), the question now is where else a wireless detector should be installed and where a regular one is sufficient.
Our house is relatively small, with about 60 square meters (645 square feet) of living space per level.
First floor: bathroom, bedroom, dressing room, two children’s rooms, small hallway
Ground floor: entrance area, open staircase leading to the first floor and basement, small storage room, open kitchen, living, and dining area
Basement: utility room (simple soundproof door), office, two storage rooms, small hallway
My idea was to install wireless smoke detectors in the utility room and in the hallways on the ground and first floors. In the living room and all bedrooms, I would install regular smoke detectors without wireless modules.
Does that make sense? Or what do you think? Since the wireless detectors are definitely much more expensive...
Regards,
Michael
untergasse4330 Dec 2020 08:15Winniefred schrieb:
I think I will also buy a CO detector for the basement. And a smoke detector for there too... It just occurred to me through this thread that we don’t have any down there 😱. Do you have stoves in the house? Gas/oil heating? Fireplace? Tiled stove?
Winniefred30 Dec 2020 12:53untergasse43 schrieb:
Do you have stoves in the house? Gas/oil heating? Fireplace? Tiled stove?No, but the gas heater is in the basement, and we don’t have any smoke detectors in the entire basement. However, there are various electrical devices and, of course, the heater. It would definitely be better to have them.
WilderSueden schrieb:
I always thought the student phase was slowly over for home builders 😉Even children grow up eventually...Are there now any laws regulating in which rooms a detector must be installed?
For example, I don’t have one in the utility room, but next to the heat pump there are also the washing machine/dryer and the network equipment.
Winniefred30 Dec 2020 19:42Yes, this is regulated by law depending on the state.
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