As the end of daylight savings approaches - Sunday April 3rd here in Tassie - it's time for my annual rant about the importance of smoke alarms. I'm pretty sure the Tas Fire Service (and probably elsewhere) will still come to your house and show you how many, and the best position for alarms in your home, and install them for you. As a house fire survivor, I can tell you that it is one life changing experience you do NOT want to go through. I can't believe how many people still do not have working smoke detectors in their houses, and with the colder weather coming up, you could be risking your life and the life of your family if you don't. We have 5 working smoke alarms in our house - one in each bedroom, one in the dining room, and one at the bottom of the stairs to our attic room, and April 3rd is the day we change all the batteries - whether they need it or not. If you do it the same time each year, it's easy to remember and you'll never be in the position of not having a life-saving working smoke detector - something I will regret for the rest of my life.
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I love that our new house has smoke detectors wired in so we don't ever have to worry about batteries.
We had a wired in one at our old house (because it was new) and also a battery one for back-up as I wondered what would happen if the power went out during a fire?
I might appreciate them one of these days when they save our lives. Our old house had them wired into the alarm system, so when you burnt something in the kitchen the house alarm went off, and the whole street knew! In the new house we have a very high hallway ceiling. Once when Alex was on business the battery was going flat and we heard the little squeak for a whole week. The first thing I made Alex do when he got home was borrow a ladder to change the battery in the smoke alarm!
It would be a pain with such high ceilings Nicki. I hope you never have to appreciate them!
we had dayslight saving a couple of weeks ago!! they also came and checked our alarms for us!!!
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