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Locations not to install your smoke detectors
Nuisance alarms take place when smoke detectors are installed where
they will not work properly. To avoid nuisance alarms, do not install smoke
detectors in the following situations:
● Combustion particles are the by-products of something that is burning.
Thus, in or near areas where combustion particles are present you do not
install the smoke detectors to avoid nuisance alarms, such as kitchens
with few windows or poor ventilation, garages where there may be vehi-
cle exhaust, near furnaces, hot water heaters, and space heaters.
● Do not install smoke detectors less than 20 feet (6 meters) away from
places where combustion particles are normally present, like kitchens. If
a 20-foot distance is not possible, e.g. in a mobile home, try to install the
detector as far away from the combustion particles as possible, prefe-
rably on the wall. To prevent nuisance alarms, provide good ventilation
in such places.
Important: For any reason, do not disable the detector to avoid nuisance
alarms.
● When air streams passing by kitchens, the way how a detector can sense
combustion particles in normal air-flow paths is graphically shown in Fi-
gure 6, which indicates the correct and incorrect smoke detector loca-
tions concerning this problem.
Figure 6: Recommended
smoke detector locations
to avoid air streams with
combustion particles
● In damp or very humid areas, or near bathrooms with showers. Moisture
in humid air can enter the sensing chamber, then turns into droplets upon
cooling, which can cause nuisance alarms. Install smoke detectors at least
10 feet (3 meters) away from bathrooms.
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