Kitchen Stove alarms

If your home is fitted with smoke alarms, you may well have experienced one of them sounding off when something being cooked has got burnt or scorched, and the kitchen door has been open, allowing the smoke to drift around the house. Smoke alarms are not normally fitted in kitchens because they are so easily activated when there is no real threat. The kitchen however, is one of the rooms in a house where a fire could so easily break out, and to exclude it from a fire alarm system doesn't make sense. The solution is the inclusion of a heat detector - a kitchen stove alarm - in your home fire alarm system.

Heat detectors are not activated by smoke or steam from the kitchen so are a useful addition to your fire alarm system. Smoke detectors are activated by airborne particles but they cannot distinguish between cooking and a fire, whereas a heat detector monitors the heat around it and will only sound off when a certain temperature is reached.

Using a kitchen stove alarm (heat detector) in conjunction with smoke detectors elsewhere around the house, gives you more comprehensive protection from fire.

Heat detectors in the kitchen are fine but they won't give you warning of fire in any other part of the house. That is where the smoke alarms are so effective. They should be installed all around your house, and especially close to the bedrooms so that you have protection whilst you sleep.

A heat detector is recommended, not as a standalone detection device, but as part of an overall fire alarm system. The detection capabilities of the smoke detectors are effective throughout your house, so you should have adequate warning of the outbreak of fire.