User Manual

8
Recommended Enhanced Safety
To improve early detection performance and safe evacuation, ensure that a
minimum of two alarms are installed per dwelling. Consider installing additional
alarms as follows:
• Inside every bedroom
• At both ends of a bedroom hallway if the hallway is more than 12 m
• Inside every room where one sleeps with the door partly or completely closed,
since smoke could be blocked by the closed door, and a hallway alarm may not
wake up the sleeper if the door is closed
• At the bottom of the basement stairwell
• On the second floor, at the top of the first-to-second floor stairwell
• In the living room, dining room, family room, attic, utility room, and storage
rooms.
Installation Location
• Installation must adhere to all relevant local and state regulations. However, as a
base guideline, alarms should be installed as close to the centre of the ceiling as
possible, away from light fittings and air-conditioning ducts. If this is not
practical, mount the alarm on the ceiling, no closer than 50 cm from any wall or
corner.
• If some of your rooms have sloped, peaked, or gabled ceilings, try to mount
alarms 0.9 m from the highest point of the ceiling measured horizontally. (see
Fig. 3).
Fig. 3 – Alarm location from walls
MINIMUM ALARM LOCATION
ADDITIONAL ALARM LOCATIONS
ADDITIONAL ALARM LOCATIONS
MINIMUM ALARM LOCATIONS
BEDROOM
BED
ROOM
BED
ROOM
BED
ROOM
KITCHEN
FAMILY ROOM
LIVING ROOM
LIVING ROOM
DINING ROOM
KITCHEN
BED
ROOM
BED
ROOM
BEDROOM
Fire
From
Smoke
Heat &
Ceiling
Best
Here
50cm min.
INCORRECT LOCATION
CORRECT LOCATION
AIR RETURN AIR ENTRY
KITCHEN
LIVING ROOM
STOVE
BATH
BEDROOM
BEDROOM