If you haven't heard already, there was a tragic news story over the past weekend involving a fire in a mobile home that did not have any smoke alarms. The care of your smoke alarms is a vital part of your home maintenance. For this reason, we make smoke alarm testing a part of our maintenance packages. This is a small but vital step towards ensuring the safety of your home. Take the time to setup and follow a schedule to keep your smoke alarms working. Please give us a call and we will certainly help with any questions. Below is a list of tips from the Columbus Fire Department on smoke alarms for you home.
The Columbus Fire Department offers the following tips for making sure smoke alarms are maintained and working properly:
- Test smoke alarms at least once a month using the test button, and make sure everyone in your home knows their sound.
- If an alarm “chirps,” warning the battery is low, replace the battery right away.
- Replace all smoke alarms, including alarms that use 10‐year batteries and hard‐wired alarms, when they’re 10 years old (or sooner) if they do not respond properly when tested.
- Never remove or disable a smoke alarm.
- Have a smoke alarm on each level of the home, outside of each sleeping area and inside each bedroom
