How many smoke alarms do you have in your home ?

I heard the French have no smoke alarms, and that its next to impossible to buy a smoke alarm in France. French have no Health and Safety Executive (or French equivilent) either. Re smoke alarms.. should I have on each floor and in each bedroom ?

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1. 2 we have a bungalow
2. 5 and the kitchen & living room
3. We have 3..I would say have one on at least every floor...and your bedroom if your a heavy sleeper. Also, you should proably have a carbion minoxide dector.
4. we have 2, one upstairs and one downstairs, and sleep better at night knowing we have them.
5. None and twenty candles per square inch and a pyromania. Im well known to the fire department.
6. We have 9 in our house, one on each floor, and one in each hallway, an and one in the kitchen....
7. One in each hallway and bedroom... and then one fire extinguisher on each floor.
8. we have 9 all rooms except bathroom they go off in their because of the steam
9. one smoke alarm outside each bedroom, one in the stairway upstairs, one just outside the kitchen and one in the laundry room, I also have CO2 detectors neer a heater vent, I have natural gas heat. Make sure they are batery backup alarms and change the batteries twice a year. Most house fires are caused by electrical faults, so if the electricity is out and there is no battery back up. they are useless.
10. we have two, one on each floor
11. 4 Kitchen, dining room, bottom of staircase and top of staircase. Plus a carbon monoxide detector in living room. But I am in the UK!
12. 5 one in all of the 3 bedrooms and 1 in the living room and 1 in the basement
13. we have two, but one is really sensitive, if you burn a bit of toast, it goes nuts!
14. I have 2 one on each floor and a carbon monoxide detector in my kitchen.
15. You want one in each bedroom, and one in each hallway area at least. I personally have one in every room of my house other than bathrooms. Better safe than sorry.
16. You should have at least one on each floor of your house, including the attic and basement. In larger homes, more would probably be safer. If I had little children still, I would definitely have one in each bedroom. You should check with your local fire department. Give them the layout of your house and I'm sure they could suggest where the best places are for you to install fire alarms. You mention French laws, so I assume you live in France. But even if they have no laws, I am sure the local fire department has some suggestions and expertise in this matter.
17. Just 3, which is not enough. 1 per floor and an extra 1 for main bedroom, as a potentially louder way to wake me up!
18. we have one on the first floor landing and one downstairs in the hallway. they are mains wired and linked.
19. One in every room, except the bathrooms.
20. Hi, At a minimum you should place a smoke detector within 1.5m of the outside of each bedroom door, plus in each stairwell on each floor. Then you can consider adding more in larger rooms likely to be an ignition site, and inside bedrooms. They should all be interlinked so if one detector is activated they all sound an alarm. Each detector should also be mains powered with battery backup. There is a handy video you can download from the below page which explains the reasons why, and also discusses the correct types (ionisation or photoelectric) of smoke alarms to use in different circumstances: http://www.cleverhome.com.au/products/Clipsal-Firetek-Photoelectric-Ionisation-Smoke-Detectors.shtml If you want to go one step further, then you can interface your smoke detectors to your security alarm panel so it can notify others that a fire alarm has occurred, and even to your home automation to automatically turn lights on and exhaust or ceiling fans off (to slow the progression of the fire). More information about this can be found at http://www.cleverhome.com.au/home-automation-safety.shtml .