How to Install a Smoke Detector with Heat Sensor in a Home

After purchasing a smoke detector with a heat sensor, you may be unsure of where to place it in relation to the various rooms in your home for it to perform the best. If you’ve never installed a smoke detector before, below outlines how to install a smoke detector with a heat sensor in a home.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• smoke detector with heat sensor
• tools

1. Find the other smoke detectors in your home. This will help you with the placement of your new smoke detectors.

2. Determine the placement of your smoke detector. There are various areas in which your smoke detector can go.

3. For kitchen placement. Be sure not to place the detector close to the stove or oven but close enough to it that if something were to occur, it would pick up the heat and smoke quickly.

4. For furnace room placement, place the detector away from any heating or air duct within the room.

5. For attached garage placement. The entry or hallway between the garage and house tends to be a good place to put the detector.

6. Install the detector. Most detectors will come supplied with mounts for the wall. Follow the instructions to mount the detector.

Tips & Warnings

• Be sure that there is also at least one extra smoke detector for each floor in your home placed in a hallway or an area that doesn’t already have a smoke detector.
• Don’t place smoke detectors within 1-6 inches of where walls and doors meet or near heating and cooling ducts.