Mr. Inspector
SAWHORSE
I have a project going and I sent this to my building inspector: Pleas coment. I already put smokes in bedrooms and outside bedrooms in hall.
You told me that I needed a smoke alarm in my living room but I am still con fused to where it needs to be. My living room has a 15’ high cathedral ceiling. I connected a 12-3 romex to the other smoke alarm connections and ran it to the front end of the existing living room and just left it hang loose for now. You told me to go by the manufactures directions.
The manufactures directions say “installed alarms on sloped, peaked or cathedral ceilings at or within 3’ of the highest point (measured horizontally). But it does not say an alarm must be installed on these ceilings.
It manufactures directions also specifies not to install an alarm
1. Where temperature may rise above 100 F degrees. My living room got over 90 all of last summer in the afternoons when the sun is coming through my windows and was some times over 100. And this is at 5’ high. I know it was over 100 near the peak at these times.
2. Within 4” of outside wall. This may bring the alarms to close to the ceiling fans.
3. Near fluorescent lights. I have florescent lights in the ceiling fan.
So maybe I should install the alarm only 8’ high in the living room?
You told me that an alarm should be installed on the highest ceiling on each floor. I can’t find this anywhere. Please refer me to where I can find this. The manufactures directions also says “ NFPA states “Smoke alarms in rooms with ceiling slopes greater than 1 foot in 8 feet horizontally shall be on the high side of the room””. Again it does not say alarms are required on slopped ceilings, it’s only requiring where they must be if you are installing an alarm on a sloped ceiling. If it was true that alarms are required on slooped ceilings that would mean if my living room ceiling was flat and 50’ high but my laundry room had a 8’ high slopped ceiling the alarm would be required to be in the laundry room.
You told me that I needed a smoke alarm in my living room but I am still con fused to where it needs to be. My living room has a 15’ high cathedral ceiling. I connected a 12-3 romex to the other smoke alarm connections and ran it to the front end of the existing living room and just left it hang loose for now. You told me to go by the manufactures directions.
The manufactures directions say “installed alarms on sloped, peaked or cathedral ceilings at or within 3’ of the highest point (measured horizontally). But it does not say an alarm must be installed on these ceilings.
It manufactures directions also specifies not to install an alarm
1. Where temperature may rise above 100 F degrees. My living room got over 90 all of last summer in the afternoons when the sun is coming through my windows and was some times over 100. And this is at 5’ high. I know it was over 100 near the peak at these times.
2. Within 4” of outside wall. This may bring the alarms to close to the ceiling fans.
3. Near fluorescent lights. I have florescent lights in the ceiling fan.
So maybe I should install the alarm only 8’ high in the living room?
You told me that an alarm should be installed on the highest ceiling on each floor. I can’t find this anywhere. Please refer me to where I can find this. The manufactures directions also says “ NFPA states “Smoke alarms in rooms with ceiling slopes greater than 1 foot in 8 feet horizontally shall be on the high side of the room””. Again it does not say alarms are required on slopped ceilings, it’s only requiring where they must be if you are installing an alarm on a sloped ceiling. If it was true that alarms are required on slooped ceilings that would mean if my living room ceiling was flat and 50’ high but my laundry room had a 8’ high slopped ceiling the alarm would be required to be in the laundry room.