Hate one thing in my new house

[OakLeaf]

When the security company sited our smoke detector, they specifically sited it AWAY from the kitchen. It's in the hall near the bedrooms.

It's still too close to the bathroom though, which they also took into account, but just apparently ran out of space. In certain conditions, if we open the bathroom door after a shower, the water vapor will set off the alarm. Nothing like a wet naked scramble down to the keypad to shut it off, and to the phone to tell them to cancel the fire department call.

[tulip]

I say move it out of the kitchen. It should be near the bedrooms to wake you up if there is an emergency.

I have a GE Profile microwave-convection oven-exterior vent hood above my stove. It's really nice to have a vent to the exterior, and on occasion I have used both my regular oven (gas, also GE Profile) and convection oven, which is electric.

[Tokie]

The building code in our community requires a smoke detector in each bedroom and a smoke detector in the hall outside of the bedrooms. No kitchen smoke detector required.(probably in part because people disarm the kitchen ones because they go off all the time with ordinary cooking) however I live a few blocks from the beach, and in the summer when we have our "June gloom" foggy weather(or in the early fall) the foggy night air sometime sets off our bedroom smoke detector in the middle of the night - yikes~ tokie

[Biciclista]

my mother has a plastic haircover over hers.
We removed the one near our kitchen because we had the same problem. Without a well vented kitchen your alarm is going to go off. And that's unbearable.

[badger]

In certain conditions, if we open the bathroom door after a shower, the water vapor will set off the alarm.

we recently had a guy who was showering for over 2 HOURS (according to his neighbour) and when he opened the bathroom door it tripped the heat detector.

We have an ancient alarm system so even after the fire department shut it off, it needed to be re-set; the alarm technician had to be called out on a double-overtime as it was a holiday Monday. We charged it all back to the water hog who set it off.

[malkin]

At one point we upgraded to a smoke detector that had a remote control to shut it off. Unfortunately, the TV remote also turned it ON.

This was not exactly an improvement.

[ASammy1]

It's still too close to the bathroom though, which they also took into account, but just apparently ran out of space. In certain conditions, if we open the bathroom door after a shower, the water vapor will set off the alarm.

This happened everyday at our last apartment in VA... I had no idea that this could happen...

[smilingcat]

Thank you Mr. Bloom,

I'll check into external downdraft. The wall behind the stove top separates the laundry room and the kitchen. Easy access. And my house has a crawl space under and not on a slab. I could easily run the vent to the outside, not just into the crawl space but to the outside outside.

For the time being, I removed the offending alarm. I think it's defective. Shake it and it goes off. spin it and it goes off. It just wants to SCHREECH!!

And yes each bedroom does have a smoke/CO detector and another one at the top of the staircase.

Sad that I'm not the only one who have or has had the same problem. Didn't even think about steam from the shower setting it off

[jobob]

I don't mean to sound unsympathetic to your plight, sc, but your posts are really funny! Thanks for the laugh.