In my home town the fire brigade will visit your home (if you are over a
certain age) and free of charge fit battery free smoke alarms anywhere in
the house that they feel you need them.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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Apart from the battery, you also need to check that everyone in the house
can hear the smoke alarm. My FIL could hear normal speech, but he couldn't
hear the smoke alarm because the sound was too high pitched and was out of
his hearing range. There are alarms available with a lower pitch. FIL ha
Over here in Oz, they advise us to change our Smoke Alarm Batteries at
Daylight Saving Change-over - so it gets done, or checked, twice a year. So
all the clocks are changed back or forward an hour, and the Smoke Alarms are
checked and get new batteries.
To have an alarm without batteries, or dead
I always do mine when the clocks change (twice a year), but this time also
means that I have to turn off the water to the outside tap as well and put
the hose away etc. We had a big snowstorm last Tuesday with power out etc
and it was very cold and I thought I'd have to unfreeze the hose to be
Today is annual change the batteries in your smoke alarms day. Well it is
in my house at least. My husband came up with the clever idea of
associating smoke alarms that prevent fire with bonfire night, which is
today, 5 November, in UK.
Bonfire night is a fun event with bonfires and fireworks.
