A word about house fires...

[blackhawk2000]

How hard is it to replace no-battery-backup smoke alarms with battery backup models? We do have two fire extinguishers and dogs.

There are 2 kind of smokes, battery only, and the ones that are hard wired with a battery backup. Depending upon how your house is set up it can be as easy as going in the attic, and dropping down into each location, or require tearing out drywall. You can only fish so much wire so many ways before it becomes impossible to do, without removing areas of drywall. What makes it hard to do is they all have to be wired together like a chain.

 

[CB900F]

Fella's;

And particularly those professional firefighters. Is there an adjustment, or an adjustable smoke detector on the market?

I've pulled the smoke detector's in our house, too much 'wolf', no fire. If you're going to ask 'But what about the exception?', please don't bother. No children in the house, nearby professional fire dept., extinguishers kept up to snuff & in appropriate places, & exits available.

However, I'm no longer willing to put up with screaming alarms over adding more wood to the insert firebox, having barbeque smoke from the patio enter the house, opening the oven after using the boiler, and static fits of howling in the night.

I haven't tried expelling or exterminating an intruder by gunshot just to see if the d***ed nit-wit device will go off, but I wouldn't doubt that it would.

900F