Daylight Savings = Checking Your Smoke Alarm
By cher913
@cher913 (25781)
Canada
March 8, 2007 4:07pm CST
This is the time to check and change your smoke alarm batteries, check your escape plans and that i understand, but the firefighter on the local radio station also stated that the smoke alarm should be vacuumed out...i have never heard of this before...does anyone actually vacuum their smoke alarm? I mean it does make sense cause i am sure it gets dusty, but the thought just never occured to me lol
What about the rest of you?
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@killahclaire (3665)
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8 Mar 07
I'm in the UK and Im sure we were all told to check our smoke alarms not that long ago. I am in a council house and the council are by law meant ot maintain things like that and since they put the things in they haven't worked. I'm a bit of a firestarter as well so I just hope I am always on the ball and cathch it beofre it spreads too much.
I do not think many poeple do actually vacuum inside there alarms but you are probably meant to do it in case it doesnt go off in a fire and then the company cannot defend themself saying it was probably dust clogging it up.
I wonder if smoke alarm companies get sued if the alarm breaks and people die in a fire.
I think it is such a good idea that they put out a scheduled date of checking it because so often years go by and you don't even think about maintainence.
Enjoy your hoovering.
