Kidde 2030-DSR - Recommended Locations for Smoke Alarms

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6. Recommended Locations for Smoke Alarms
NOTE: According to BS 5839-6, for optimal re protection: “The greatest benet to life safety is given by a
full-coverage system. Such a system will give the earliest practicable warning of re to occupants, wherever
ignition occurs.”
• Locate the rst alarm in the immediate area of the bedrooms. Try to monitor the escape routes and rooms
opening into escape routes as the bedrooms are usually farthest from the exit.
• If more than one sleeping area exists, locate additional alarms near each sleeping area. No bedroom door
should be further than 3 m from the nearest alarm.
• Locate additional alarms between every bedroom and every other room in the dwelling (for example, an
ofce, library, or lounge), other than a toilet, bathroom, or shower room.
• Locate additional alarms to monitor any stairway as stairways act like chimneys for smoke and heat.
• Locate at least one alarm on every oor level, including nished lofts. Locate an alarm between each
staircase and every room, other than a toilet, bathroom or shower room.
• Locate an alarm in every bedroom.
• Locate an alarm in every room where electrical appliances are operated (i.e. portable heaters or humidiers).
• Locate an alarm in every room where someone sleeps with the door closed. The closed door may prevent
an alarm not located in that room from waking the sleeper.
• Locate one alarm in each principal habitable room.
• If a habitable room is an inner room with no doors or windows through which escape is possible, locate one
alarm in the room used to access that inner room.