Fire Safety

Avoiding House Fires: How to Improve Fire Detection in Your Home

Fires can start in your home for the simplest of reasons. It’s important to improve the fire detection systems in your home. How? Learn here.

There are over 200 deaths each year in the UK due to house fires. In order to help reduce this number and to inform homeowners how to ensure their home is safe, we’ve put together this short article.

Today we are going to talk about how to avoid house fires and improve your home with the best fire detection equipment. Let’s take a look!

How to Avoid House Fires

Many fire fatalities happen because homeowners don’t have working fire detection systems. To help prevent this, here are some tips on how to avoid house fires and incidents in your home:

Ensure you have smoke detectors installed throughout your house
Check the batteries every month and replace them as necessary
Test the smoke detector by setting it off manually once a month. Remember that test button? That’s right – push it!
Keep fire extinguishers in both the kitchen and garage. Make sure everyone knows where they are located so they can be used properly
Inspect any and all of your heating equipment in a home

These are all simple tasks that you can perform at home to help you with house fire prevention.

How to Improve Your Home with Fire Detection Equipment

What do fire alarms actually do? The function of fire alarms is to alert you when there is a danger of fire or fire. The fire detector will warn you of fire and smoke before the fire department arrives so it is important to have fire alarms in your home.

However, you’ll find that the majority of fire detection devices are faulty and can malfunction quite often. In addition to that, fire alarms might not detect smoke in your home if they are installed incorrectly or have been poorly manufactured.

So how can you improve fire detection in your home?

Only install fire detectors in your home with fire detection equipment that has been approved by an industry leader, such as AICO. Most fire departments actually recommend fire detection systems that are made by these leaders because fire alarm manufacturers will provide the highest quality fire detectors available on the market today.

The Best Fire & Heat Detection Device

Remember – only use fire detection equipment that’s recommended by professionals! You wouldn’t want to put your life in the hands of faulty or cheap devices.

One fire alarm system that has been known to provide the best fire and heat detection is made by AICO.

AICO fire alarms have a smoke sensor, a heat sensor, and a fire detector all within one device! This fire alarm provides optimal protection for your home against fire and is your most reliable device.

Hiring an Expert AICO Installer

If you want to protect your home, your family, and yourself, it’s time to have the professional come out. Here are RMF Electrical Services, we provide fire detection installation in your home.

Our team is expertly trained in working exclusively with industry-leading products such as those made by AICO. Contact us today to come out and install the best protection for your family.

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