Pros: Can suit dustier areas, such as lofts, the area near your bathroom or rooms where people smoke.

If your home is on one level, you should fit the alarm in the hallway between the living and sleeping areas. If you have only one smoke alarm and two floors, put it where you can hear it when you are asleep – on the ceiling at the top of the stairs leading to the bedrooms.Optical smoke alarms use infrared to detect smoke and are good for detecting slow burning electrical fires. Steam and smoke from cooking is less likely to trigger a false alarm making them a good choice for living rooms, dining rooms, halls and landings. If you have a TV or other large electrical appliance in your bedroom, you should fit a smoke alarm there. Looking after your smoke alarm

All of the major manufacturers (Aico, FireAngel and Kidde) make smoke and heat alarms that will work in combination with one another and we have tested pairs of smoke and heat alarms from each of them. And if you'd like to discover more handy ways to use VELCRO® Brand Fasteners around the home, stay on our blog! Smoke alarms require very little maintenance but according to the Fire Service, there are a couple of things you should do every year to make sure they're working properly: Combined Optical Smoke and Heat Alarms: Combinations of optical and heat alarms in one unit to reduce false alarms while increasing the speed of detection. Pros: Good for bedrooms, landings and hallways, and near to kitchens as they aren’t as prone to false alarms from cooking.

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The regulations state that all homes will need a smoke alarm to be installed in the most used room, which is likely to be the living room in most homes. And an interlinked heat alarm will need to be needed in the kitchen. Heat Alarms: They detect the increase in temperature from a fire and are insensitive to smoke. They can therefore be installed in kitchens. They only cover a relatively small area of a room, so potentially several heat alarms need to be installed in a large kitchen.