smoke alarm in kids room?

[AlpineSlide]

Do you have a smoke alarm in each bedroom (specifically each child's room) or just in the hallways or somewhere outside their room?

How many do you have per floor?





We rent and have one in the basement and one for the main floor that's in the hallway leading to both bedrooms. We also have one on the second floor that is basically a bonus room/large storage room. So 3 total. I think we need more on the main floor at least. It's a small house but still. Our landlords should provide them right?

There wasn't a CO detector here when we moved in and I insisted on one. I thought it was the law to have them now? Maybe it varies by state.

[InBetweenDays]

We have one in the basement and one on the main floor. We then have one in the upstairs stairwell and in each bedroom.

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[Deleted]

We do now because we added on to the house and to pass inspection there had to be a smoke alarm in every room.

[MadamePresident]

We have one on each bedroom and other places in the house. We built our house last year and I'm pretty sure it's in the building code.

[Deleted]

We have one in every bedroom.
One in every hallway.
2 in the open area.
2 more other than bedrooms on the lower level.

[linz]

We have on in kitchen and one im hallway right outside our bedrooms.

[kershnic]

The law definitely varies by state.

We have a 2 bedroom apartment. There are smoke alarms in each bedroom, plus two more in the rest of the space.

Co detector in nursery only.

[spk926]

Our house is pretty new, although we are the second owners. So yes we have smoke alarms in every bedroom. Plus one in the upstairs hallway.

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[wavepool]

Our house is old enough that it wasn't required to have in every room. We actually just installed one in Os room last night!

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[iheartbanjos]

Our house is only 8 years old, so we have them in every bedroom, per the law here.

[holly116]

FIL was a firefighter, I'm a former property insurance underwriter, my DH is a type A engineer. We have a bajillion detectors. One in every bedroom and then in the hallway, I think four on the first floor, two or three in the basement, one in the garage. One on each floor is hardwired. Our home is 2200 square feet and it's probably overkill but I don't care.

We also have fire extinguishers on every floor including a huge one upstairs that will give us extra time if we need it. DH checks the detectors on the first of every month, replacing all batteries in everything on 1/1 every year.

Fwiw, a simple smoke detector is so cheap. Like, $5 at Home Depot.

[arch01]

We have a CO detector on each floor, a smoke detector in each bedroom, in the main hall and in each room on the first floor. The previous owners installed them in the bathrooms but we have disconnected those due to the humidity making them go haywire.

[brooklyn]

We have one in the hallway outside our bedroom. We live in a 500 sq ft one bedroom apt. It is a combo smoke/co detector

[timorousbeastie]

We have one per bedroom, one in the hallway outside the bedrooms, and one in the basement.

[cosmowife]

When we renovated, we were required by code to install them in each bedroom and outside any sleeping areas. We probably have 7 or 8 in our house (all one level). We were also required to have them all hardwired together so that if one goes off, they all go off.