Smoke Alarms

The Right Spots for Smoke Alarms
Learn the specific guidelines for location, spacing, and clearance for optimal safety.
Podcast 217: Architecturally Correct Trim, Keeping a Cabin Warm, and Fixes for Butchered Floor Joists
The crew gets feedback on door bevels and heat-pump water heaters before taking questions on matching moldings to a house style, converting a seasonal cabin to year-round use, and what to do about Sawzall-wielding plumbers.
What You Didn’t Know About Alarms
Smoke alarms and CO alarms are more nuanced than most people realize.
Q&A: Clearing the Air Around Smoke Alarms
Expert advice on when and where to install smoke alarms and what types of smoke alarms work best for different rooms of the house
What's the Difference: Smoke alarms
Product packaging is the only real way to tell photoelectric and ionization alarms apart
Maintaining battery-powered smoke detectors
Every year, people who have battery-powered smoke detectors in their homes are put at risk because the batteries die and nobody bothers to replace them. I think it’s because the…
Fire-Safety Alarms
An electrician describes what kinds to get, where to put them and how to wire them to save lives and homes.
Hot tip
Recently I had to repair the circuit board in my smoke alarm. For a job of this delicacy, I needed. a soldering iron with a small-diameter tip, but all I…

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