Location And Positioning - Bellman & Symfon BE1481 Manual Del Usuario

Location and positioning

Sufficient smoke must enter your smoke alarm before it will respond. Your smoke alarm
needs to be within 7.5 meters (25 ft.) of the fire to respond quickly. Your smoke alarms
also need to be in positions where they can be heard throughout the property, so they
can wake you and your family in time for everyone to escape. A single smoke alarm will
give some protection if it is properly installed, but most homes will require two or more to
ensure that a reliable early warning is given. For recommended protection you should put
individual smoke alarms in all rooms where fire is most likely to break out (apart from the
kitchen and bathroom).
Your first smoke alarm should be located between the sleeping area and the most likely
sources of fire (living room for example), but it should not be more than 7.5 meters (25 ft.)
from the door to any room where a fire may start and block your escape from the house.
Single storey dwelling
If your home is on one level, you should put your first smoke alarm in a corridor or hallway
between the sleeping and living areas. Place it as near to the living area as possible, but
make sure you can hear it loudly enough to wake you in the bedroom, see Figure 1.
Preferably the smoke alarms should be connected to a Visit receiver so as to give an
additional warning throughout the property.
If your home is very large and the corridor or hallway is more than say 15 metres
(50 ft.) long, one smoke alarm will not be sufficient. This is because no matter where
it is located it will be more than 7.5 metres (25 ft.) from potential fires.
Minimum protection level
On each storey

In each sleeping area

Every 7.5 metres of hallways & rooms
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Within 3 metres of all bedroom doors
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In houses with more than one sleeping area, smoke alarms should be placed between
each sleeping area and the living area, see
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Recommended protection level
In addition:
In every room, except

bathrooms and kitchens
Figure 2.
Bedroom
Bath
room
Kitchen
Dining room
Bedroom Bedroom
Figure 1 Single storey dwelling
Bath
Bedroom Kitchen
room
Living room
Bedroom
Dining room
Bedroom
Figure 2
Single storey dwelling
with separate sleeping areas
Multi Storey Dwellings
If your home has more than one floor, at least one smoke alarm should be fitted on each
Figure 3.
level, see
Connecting the smoke alarms to one or several Visit receivers will help to ensure that
the alarm is noticed throughout the property.
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Figure 3 Multi storey dwelling
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