Smoke alarm placement

[Steve T]

Hi all,

I'm helping my friend do up an old house he bought a couple months ago and obviously we need to have mains powered smoke detectors installed. I'd just like to ask a couple of questions about the type we need and their placement.

Firstly the upstairs landing is literally about 1m^2 and the only other upstairs room is a bedroom with an ensuite so does it make more sense to have the smoke detector in the bedroom or on the landing?

Secondly, to quickly describe the downstairs there's a small hallway and, a lounge to the right, and to the left there's a dining room, and coming from the dining room there's another bedroom with an ensuite and finally a kitchen. I'm thinking for downstairs we need a heat alarm in the kitchen, and an optical alarm in the hallway at the very least. Do we also need one in the bedroom and the lounge or would that be over the top?

Thirdly, the lounge, dining room, bedroom and kitchen all have wood burning fires so should those rooms all have carbon monoxide detectors? If so is it just better to have a combination mains powered smoke and CO detector in each room? Of course that would be a nice option but also seems a bit over the top and would get a bit expensive...but if its required so be it.
Would be great to hear what you guys think would be an appropriate solution.

Thanks in advance for any replies!

 

[pirate]

CO in every room with a flue or fuel burning appliance.
Upstairs, I'd say smoke on the landing (as opposed to Smoke On The Water, which is totally different!)
Heat in kitchen downstairs, smoke in hallway, smoke in lounge as a minimum...the rest is up for discussion and assessment...sometimes the minimum requirements are just too minimal...use of rooms, frequency of occupation, and a huge dollop of common sense

 

[pirate]

Oh, factor in escape routes too...often overlooked.

 

[Mike Johnson]

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