How To Install A Battery Smoke Alarm

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Hi there! I'm Chris from Aspect Maintenance, a large electric company based in the centre of London. Today we're just going to have a look at installing a basic battery operated smoke alarm that you'd install in any basic one story apartment or flat, and just talk through a few areas of where you should and shouldn't put it. Here we have the basic battery operated smoke alarm, similar to the 240 volt powered ones only obviously it doesn't have the cable coming in.

But we'll just use this one for the explanation today. Some of the areas we'll just have a look around. When you're going to install it you've got to stay away from these areas, roughly within about 30 cm to either side, that's known as the dead zone and that's the last place smoke would accumulate if a fire were to take place.

So even this area too, you want to stay away from any lights - they'll give off heat and any moisture as well because that will obviously affect the functioning of any smoke alarm. In this area here would be ideal, if we were going to put one in here. It's the highest point in the room.

It's staying away from the edges, known as the dead zone, and it's within a good distance from the light, which would give off their own heat and moisture. So it would just be a case of screwing this to the roof using any screw-in rock point that you have. Or if it's a wooden ceiling, using a basic screw and cordless drill, putting it up, closing it out, pressing the test button, and that that's how you install a basic battery smoke alarm.