• FireTower@lemmy.worldOP
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          10 months ago

          Got to make sure you put a lit candle down on top of your oil soaked news papers. Otherwise they’ll blow away.

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          That tends to be covered by code.

          if ANYTHING happens in your home and they either send someone out or a responder makes a note of it, you get dropped and they laugh.

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            10 months ago

            Yup, but neither is required by code where I live.

            Some insuraners offer a small discount for having a fire alarm, but they can’t drop you for not having one.

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              So it’s not my business but I’m curious… You can get smoke detectors for like $10/each, you seen to acknowledge that having 0 smoke detectors is kinda dangerous… why not install a couple smoke detectors? I always thought they were annoying until a Chinese cheap battery self ignited in the next room while I was sleeping, it would’ve burned my apartment building down if there wasn’t a smoke detector in the room.

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                I used to live in Germany where smoke detectors where mandatory at some point. It was also the landlords responsibility. So what you had was a some company coming into your home once a year to check all the smoke detectors. I found that to be very intrusive.

                Not sure of this process has been digitised since (in Germany probably not), but I don’t really miss it. (I live in Switzerland now, and here smoke detectors are not required by anyone (might depend on Canton)).