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Tips on buying and maintaining smoke alarms and CO detectors for your home
Properly installed and maintained smoke alarms and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors can help save lives by providing a critical early warning for anyone in the home. Along with home fire sprinklers, they’re the best tools we have for protecting our family from fire, injuries and carbon monoxide poisoning.
Types of smoke alarms
With so many options, at varying prices, it’s hard knowing what type of device is best for your home. Whether you live in a newer home that’s wired for interconnected devices, an older home or a condo, here’s a helpful guide on what’s available:
Ionization smoke alarms – Generally recognized for being more responsive to fast, flaming fires that feed on combustibles like paper, grease and synthetic material.
Photoelectric smoke alarms – Generally recognized for their ability to detect smoke patterns from fires that slowly smolder before igniting.
Battery operated – Typically the cheapest and easiest way to protect homes that aren’t pre-wired for interconnected devices. Battery-operated smoke alarms continue to work through power outages, if the batteries are replaced and tested regularly.
10-year battery powered – Sealed, lithium battery-powered smoke detectors last for ten years, essentially the life of the alarm. They’re always on and also work through a power outage.
Hardwired AC operated – These devices are wired to the household’s 120V electrical circuit. They’re interconnected, so if one device detects smoke or fire, all alarms throughout the home go off simultaneously. A power outage can affect these alarms, but many are equipped with a battery backup.
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