Smoke alarm are to be used as minimum requirement in all bedrooms, children's rooms and hallways which act as escape routes, and are to be installed
in each case in the middle of the room, on the ceiling only (do not install on wall).
Select the installaon locaon with a minimum distance of 50 cm to surrounding walls, furniture and lamps.
Configuraon is opmal when devices are also located in all other rooms as well as staircases.
In kitchens and wet rooms, smoke alarms are only used when false alarm caused by the characteriscs of these space are excluded.
Please observe the graphics in this guide.
Install smoke alarms as close to the centre of the ceiling as possible, away from light fings and air-condioning ducts. If this is not praccal, put the alarm on the
ceiling, no closer than 50 cm from any wall or corner.
In rooms with ceiling slopes> 20 °, the smoke alarm shall be mounted at least 0.5 m and not more than 1 m away from the ceiling peak.
In rooms with sloping ceilings that is prorated, if the horizontal ceiling is ≤ 1 m wide, mount the smoke alarm as shown in Mounng for gabled ceiling with
slope > 20°. If the horizontal ceiling> 1 m wide, mount the smoke alarm in the centre on the horizontal ceiling as shown in Mounng in rooms with sloping
ceiling and horizontal ceiling.
Ceilings with a slope angle ≤ 20 ° should be treated as horizontal ceiling.
Install the smoke alarm in either le posion or right posion.
Installaon Locaon
Rooms with sloped ceiling
Figure 2 Mounng for ceiling with slope > 20°
Figure 3 Mounng for gabled ceiling with slope > 20°
Figure 4 Mounng in rooms with sloping ceiling and horizontal ceiling
CHILDREN’S
BEDROOM
KITCHEN
WORKSHO
BOILER ROOM
LIVING ROOM
BEDROOM
Figure 1 b) Example of the applicaon in a typical single-family house
1-Smoke alarm in the le posion
2-Smoke alarm in the right posion