Where to Install a Smoke Detector?
The primary job of smoke detectors is to wake up sleeping persons and warn them of urgent danger. Install your detectors as close as possible to the bedrooms. Id you have only one main area where bedrooms are located, install it in a central point between these bedrooms. If sleeping areas in your home are separated (for example: in multiple levels house), install a fire detector near each area. Usually, the best location is the hallway next to the bedrooms. If your family members close the bedrooms doors while sleeping, consider installing a smoke detector inside each bedroom in addition to the one in the hallway. This is especially important if anyone in your family tends to smoke in bed. Although closed doors may offer some protection against fire and smoke, they may make it difficult to hear a detector alarm, installed outside the bedroom. Even more dangerous is the fact that if fire originates inside the bedroom, the closed door will keep the smoke from reaching and activating the
