A simple statement – fire kills – fact – make sure you are protected.

Make sure your smoke detectors are working correctly. It’s a sad fact but 1 in 3 smoke alarms fail to work and warn residents of a fire; mainly due to missing or non working batteries*. Other simple fire safety tips include:

  • Don’t place wet washing on heaters or in front of fires
  • Have a spark proof guard in front of all open fires
  • Don’t leave candles unattended
  • Never store more chemicals and cleaning fluids than you need
  • Store paints and thinners in a metal container; never store flammable materials under a stairway
  • Close all internal doors to limit fires from spreading, particularly at night

Alternatively another solution for fire protection at home is to add smoke detectors to your burglar alarm system.

By doing this it will ensure that the smoke detectors will always work, as they will be powered by the burglar alarm control panel which has a standby battery. This battery will take over should there ever be a mains failure for a set period of time so you will always be protected.

Two additional bonuses of connecting smoke detectors to your burglar alarm system are:

  1. when activated the sounders for the alarm will activate (internally and externally) this means that you will always be able to hear the smoke detector has activated and can act accordingly.
  2. if your burglar alarm systems is monitored, then you could have the burglar alarm system call the fire brigade )via the ARC) to come to the rescue.

Smoke detectors can be added to systems wired or wirefree.

for more information please contact us

(* Source: http://www.firekills.gov.uk/ ).

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