A working smoke alarm saves lives.

New Zealand Fire Service  fire attends over 3500 house fires in the country every year, and in over 80% of those fires, smoke alarms were either not working or not installed. 

Many fire fatalities occur at night when people are sleeping and don’t smell the smoke. A working SMOKE ALARM is your only voice to alert other home occupants of fire so they can get out alive.

According to the Residential Tenancy Act, smoke alarms should be installed in:

• each bedroom or within 3 metres of each bedroom’s door – applies to any room a person might sleep in
• any rental caravan, sleep-out or similar.
• on each storey or level in multi-level homes, even if no-one sleeps there.

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A smoke alarm is constantly monitoring the air in your home, so it is better to have one installed with longer batter life. The team at Better Spaces only installs LONG life photoelectric smoke alarms suitable for rooms and halways etc, and also heat alarms for kitchen area. The alarms have 10 years battery life. After installation, we will test the alarm with a smoke tester to show you that it really works.

We also install "linked photoelectric smoke alarms". Unlike single smoke alarms, linked smoke alarms uses wireless radio signals to communicate with each other, so if one alarm detects smoke, all the alarm will start beeping. This is really good for large homes.

SMOKE ALARMS.....It is not worth taking the risk!