Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 7 of 12 Smoke Alarms, Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections and Consulting, would like everyone to think of Prevention, Detection, and Escape in order to avoid or survive a fire in your home. When your Home Inspector is Inspecting a home for you and your family, he or she should make note as if there are or are not Smoke Alarms in the home, this fact should be in the Home Inspection Report you raceive.

Smoke Alarms are very critical for the early detection of a fire in you'res and your family's home, and could very will mean the difference between life and death of you and your family. A fire can occur in a variety of ways and in any room of your home. Thats why its so important to have, and Smoke Alarms are the first key step towards your family's safety.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 7 of 12 Smoke Alarms, most fire fatalities occur in homes, mainly when folks are sleeping. A fire is quiet and it moves very fast, if you're sleeping you can't smell smoke. A Photo-electric smoke alarm is the best way to wake you and your family from a deep sleep and give y'all time to escape your home safely, in the case of a fire.

A fire produces heat, smoke and toxic gases, smoke rises and moves along the ceiling, it moves up stairwells and any vertical openings. When smoke can't rise anymore its going to build up, and then will work its way back down again.

That is why its important to have smoke alarms on the ceilings of your home, so you and your family get the earliest warning. But if you should have to put a smoke alarm on a wall 4 inches from the ceiling, so you'll avoid deed air pockets.

Home Fire Safety For First Time Home Buyers Part 7 of 12 Smoke Alarms, types of smoke alarms:

Ionization smoke alarms are most common, the least expensive, and tend to detect the smoke produced of a fast burning fires that has visible flames faster than the smoke from a smouldering fire.

Photo-electric smoke alarm can be harder to find, they do cost slightly more, and tend to detect smoke produced by a slow burning and smouldering fire that has very little flame to it. This kind of smoke alarm is very highly recommended for homes that a smoker lives, due to a greater potential of a smouldering fire that can be caused by a carelessly discarded cigarette.

Maintenance of your smoke alarms:

Once a month vacuum or blow out dust from your smoke alarms.

Test your smoke alarms at least once a month.

Change the batteries at least once a year. The easiest way to remember is to change the batteries, is when you change your clocks, in the spring or fall. A chirping sound also indicates its time to change the batteries.

If your smoke alarms are ten years old its time to replace them with new ones. There should be a label on the alarm, with the date when it was manufactured. Now if it dose not have a label, its already more than ten years old. When you buy a home, you not know just how old the smoke alarms are in the home, you really should think about install new ones.

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Post 632 - 28 Nov. 2009