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- Bedroom
- Hallways
- Kitchens
- Landings
- Carbon Monoxide
Living rooms and bedrooms usually contain large amounts of soft furnishings which tend to smoulder rather than burn with open flames in case of a fire. Optical smoke detectors are well suited to detect this type of smoke. 
As kitchens are usually joined to hallways, smoke detectors in hallways should be resistant to false alarms caused by cooking fumes. Optical smoke alarms are good at avoiding this type of false alarm while protecting you against a wide range of fire types.
Kitchens are damp, very often hot and quite regularly filled with smoke. Ordinary smoke detectors in such an environment will cause false alarms. This can be avoided by using heat detectors. These heat fire detectors will detect high temperatures or rapid rises in temperature and will alert you of a fire in your kitchen. We recommend that you interlink your heat alarm with the other alarms in your house.
We recommend the use of ionisation alarms on Landings, as rising heat from fires downstairs can fast be detected by ionisation alarms at high elevations. Please note that newly built extensions must usually be equipped with mains-powered smoke detectors, linked through either cables or radio-link to the alarms in the rest of the house.
Carbon Monoxide Detectors protect you against carbon monoxide gas (chemical symbol CO), a by-product of incomplete combustion of fossile fuels. CO gas can also leak from flues and from incorrectly installed gas burners etc. The symptoms from carbon monoxide poisoning are at first flu-like, followed by drowsiness and headache. At higher concentrations CO poisoning can be fatal. Our Carbon monoxide detectors will warn you in time if there is any problem with CO in your room.