Responsible homeowners know that fire and carbon monoxide (CO) are insidious threats and causes of death or serious injury. It is never too early to test your home's smoke alarms and ensure you have enough smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors to cover your home adequately. Research shows that people who do not have working smoke alarms installed in their homes are twice as likely to die in fires.

Even if the building code does not require it, you should have working smoke alarms on every level of your home to warn you in an emergency. Most modern smoke detectors will beep if they need a new battery, but it is good to test them to ensure they are still working. You should have carbon monoxide alarms and other equipment such as a fire extinguisher and a first aid kit.

Before buying new smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors for your home, learn about the different smoke detector and CO alarm types.

Proper maintenance of your CO alarms and smoke alarms does not cost a lot of money, but it can pay enormous dividends by helping to protect your property and your loved ones from fires, malfunctioning furnaces, and other home emergencies.

Different smoke detectors have various sensitivity levels and differentiate smoke from dust and other airborne particles in different ways.

There are two main types of smoke detectors, ionizing and photoelectric, defined by how they detect smoke. Both detect the relatively large particles found in smoke. Photoelectric sensors are less likely to produce false alarms if, for instance, you burn toast or leave something in the oven a bit too long. If you want your alarm to be more sensitive and don't mind false alarms, and ionizing alarm might be the best bet.

If anyone in your home has a hearing impairment or if you sleep with earplugs, get a smoke detector with a strobe light in addition to the sound of the alarm. If your detector is too sensitive or error-prone, it could lead to many nuisance alarms or false alarms, which might tempt you or your family members to disable the alarm.

Smart alarms connect to your wi-fi network. You can use your phone or other communications device with wireless communication to connect to your smart smoke detector or carbon monoxide detector once you've installed it. It can tell you:

• If there is a fire or emergency when you're out of the house.
• If it needs new batteries.
• If it needs repair

You can communicate with your smoke detector through the wi-fi to turn it off in the event of a false alarm and program your smoke detector to alert you in case of an emergency.

If you are shopping for smoke detectors in British Columbia, you have many options. Many stores will sell you fire alarms and CO alarms. You can also order a fire alarm or CO alarm from online stores, but it is essential to check the quality of the fire safety products that you buy. A great deal in a big retail store might not turn out to be so great if the smoke alarm breaks a few months after you have installed it.

One smoke alarm we recommend is Nest Protect. Its battery lasts five years, and you can wire the unit up to your home's power grid. You can program each unit with its location to pinpoint the location of fires.

Have you tried alarms at other places and found they were too hard to install, had short battery life, or weren't very good at smoke detection? The smoke alarms we sell have better battery life and excellent smoke detection capabilities than many so-called bargain detectors.

Vernon Air Conditioning, Plumbing & Electrical Services is ready to install modern smoke detectors and CO detectors in your home. Our installation service gives you safety and peace of mind by ensuring that they are in good working order and in the proper position to detect smoke and carbon monoxide.

Your safety is important to us, and we can help you find the smoke detector and CO alarm models that work best for you. However, if you need someone to help you install your alarms, make sure each battery is working, help you program them, and carry out repairs, you need more than a store-bought system. You need the security of a professional smoke detector installation service.

Contact us at (778) 403-7886 or click the contact us button anywhere on our website to learn more about our smoke detector - Vernon BC Canada services.

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