In the month of December, The Steve Bock Team would like to ensure that your home is safe from fire and smoke damage. In order to do this, we would like to clear up the haze around smoke alarms and fire safety. Smoke alarms don’t prevent fires in the home, but they do double your chances of surviving a fire. We would like to give you some hot tips on fire safety:
- When purchasing a smoke alarm, make sure that it has a loud alarm, a UL listing, a malfunction signal and a ten-year back-up battery. These features will ensure that your home is protected from fire.
- Install smoke alarms on every level of your home. If you sleep with the door closed, then you should install an alarm in the bedroom as well.
- Always ensure that your smoke alarms are in working order. Test them once a month and change the battery when you change your clocks. Also, if you vacuum your smoke alarms to remove dust and cobwebs you will ensure an accurate read.
- Keep spare batteries on hand for when one stops working. Never risk having a smoke alarm without a battery. A smoke alarm that doesn’t work is like having no smoke alarm at all.
- If you do experience a fire, GET OUT and call the fire department from a neighbor’s house. Fires spread quickly and you don’t want to be in when it gets going. Make sure that you crawl and stay low to the floor. The heat at the floor level is 90 degrees, but at head level is 600 degrees and at the ceiling it is 800 degrees. Anything over 150 degrees will knock you unconscious and kill you. Stay Low!
We hope that these tips were nice and helpful for you and your home. Keep checking back throughout the month for more tips on Home Safety. If you have any suggestions, shoot us an e-mail at team@bockrealestate.com.
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