Down here you have to be careful with contractors. IIRC the code only
says a "smoke detector" and the usual run of the mill contractor will
put in the battery operated only. Our city code doesn't call for 110/120
wiring to the detector. Heck, our code doesn't even call for a CO
detector and 90% of the furnaces are natural gas.
George
Deborah Green wrote:
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A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
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Just a note that there are dual mode smoke detectors, wired in w/battery
back up. I had worried a bit about my wired in ones when I had my house
built in VA because we had such frequent power outages there. Then a couple
of years later I was awakened in the middle of the night by a chirping smoke
detector. Took me forever to find the manual to figure out how the hell to
open the thing (which at that point I was doing to try to disarm it) and
when I finally found the manual I discovered that there was a battery in
there, too!
Debbie
George Shirley
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:27 PM
To: GARDENS@LSV.UKY.EDU
Subject: Re: OT: CO poisoning WAS bread
George says always get a smoke detector, heat detectors aren't much good
in homes. We have two, one within ten feet of the kitchen stove, another
in the bedroom(s) hallway. Never put one in the kitchen or within ten
feet of a bathroom (hot showers with steam escaping mess up the
detector). Change the batteries every time there's a time change, spring
and fall, test the detector once a month to ensure it is working. All
the ones sold in the US have test buttons. Some jurisdictions require
that the detector be wired into the household circuit. If yours does get
an extra one or two that are battery operated, sometimes the electricity
goes off before the wired one sounds then where are you. Stay alive is
the name of the game. If you have kids, handicapped people in the house,
etc. set up an escape plan with a designated place for everyone to go,
do a headcount when you get there to make sure all are out. Run a drill
at odd times two or three or even four times a year. It may save your
life. Also, don't forget a CO (Carbon Monoxide) detector, they save a
lot of lives every winter.
George, taking off his safety helmet
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A garden is never so good as it will be next year.
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