Many small residential areas, especially older houses and apartments, do not have a fire alarm system. Forcing owners or their occupants to install fire alarm systems is difficult and sometimes impossible.
Residential stand-alone fire detectors may not cover all requirement for fire safety according to fire standards, but at least with a reasonable budget residents can have a safer area! The high number of domestic fires, casualties and damages confirm the importance of using fire detectors.
It should be noted that most of the residential fire are occurred between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. which occupants are resting at home or asleep. Our sense of smell does not work while sleeping and we often find out when it's too late!
The most important causes of house fires:
- Cigarettes
- Wood stoves
- Kerosene heaters
- Gas or electric cooking stoves
- Power cords
So installing at least some stand-alone detectors in living room, bedroom, kitchen and exit of the house plays a huge role in safety of small buildings and apartments.
Common residential fire detectors:
- Smoke detector
- Heat detector
- CO detector
- CO gas is highly toxic, colourless, odorless and tasteless
- Combine smoke and heat detector
- Combine smoke, heat and CO detector
- PLG (natural gas / methane) gas detector
- LPG detector (propane or butane)
Related standards:
- NFPA 72
- NFPA 74
- VdS
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