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I live in a smallish apt, maybe 350 ft^2, and my smoke alarms never go off, even when I burn something on the stove...
by snogglethorpe 13y ago
I live in a smallish apt, maybe 350 ft^2, and my smoke alarms never go off, even when I burn something on the stove...
- robotnixon 13y agoThe fact that you're legitimately burning something and you smoke alarm doesn't go off is more of an indication that your smoke alarm is ineffectual than anything else.
- snogglethorpe 13y agoThat's not clear at all. The smoke from some toast burning and the smoke from your kitchen being on fire aren't necessarily the same in amount/duration/composition/distribution. Obviously an ideal detector would take such things into account and reject false positives. I do not know the degree to which this is possible in practice, but certainly it's been true basically every place I've lived that the smoke detectors very rarely reacted to "typical food burning incidents."