Fire alarm maintenance is a very important aspect of fire safety. You may have purchased all of the best fire protection equipment, but without the maintenance needed to keep your fire alarm working properly, what is the point of having any equipment at all? There are some basic tips you can take to help you keep all of your fire safety equipment if proper working order. 

Fire alarm maintenance at home begins with replacing your fire alarm batteries. This is something so simple that can keep your alarm working properly. You can coordinate this with a birthday or other significant date to help you to remember to change your batteries twice a year. You also should consider replacing the whole unit at least every ten years to ensure you have the best working equipment. 

In addition to fire alarm maintenance at home you also need to have a good fire escape plan. You should involve the whole family and practice it a couple of times a year to ensure nobody forget what their role is. Pets should also be included in your fire plan at home. 

At a business you may want to rely on the professionals to help you with fire alarm maintenance. You may want a professional fire company to come in a couple of times a year to help you make sure that you are up to date with all of your commercial fire protection. 

Commercial fire protection is more complicated than residential and you need to find out what the requirements are in your state or city. You may want to prepare for a fire inspection and make any necessary changes to pass inspection and make your building as safe as possible. 

A recent news story at www.newsdurhamregion.com, Ajax Fire and Emergency offered the following fire safety tips, “During the winter, fire hydrants can become buried in snow banks and drifts. Property owners with a hydrant on their property should shovel around it to make access easy and to help firefighters find them.  Vent pipes from a direct vent furnace could also become buried in snow.”

A great fire safety product is the 80-994 - 135 Degree Wireless Rate-of-Rise Heat Sensor Kit.  The Rate-of-Rise Heat Sensor Kit combines a System Sensor Heat Detector (Model 5601P) with a learn mode wireless transmitter (UFT-ROR) in one kit. A built-in thermostat trips the transmitter when a temperature at the sensor location reaches approximately 135 Degrees F.

You may also want to learn more about the RWT30S433USA - Rokonet Wireless Smoke Detector.  When sufficient smoke is detected, the detector will sound its alarm horn and the transmitter will send an alarm message. You can find out more at www.homesecuritystore.com. 

Fire alarm maintenance is a good way to have great fire safety whether in your home or business. When you are maintaining your fire alarm it is a great opportunity to check on the other important aspects of good fire safety including a fire escape plan.  A fire can happen when you least expect it to a home or business and fire alarm maintenance provides an extra layer of security.