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Audit your home against fire-safety practice — alarms, escape routes, cooking, heating, electrical and LPG — and size the equipment you need.
This audit scores a home against established residential fire-safety practice across seven areas — detection, escape planning, cooking, LPG, electrical, heating and flammables, and equipment — and sizes the alarms and extinguishers the home needs. Detection follows the NFPA rule of a smoke alarm inside every bedroom, outside each separate sleeping area and on every level including a basement, tested monthly and replaced ten years after the manufacture date. Items are weighted critical, important or recommended, and any critical item left unchecked caps the verdict regardless of the overall percentage.
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Alarm and extinguisher counts come from your bedroom and floor count, not a generic number.
Missing a working alarm or an escape route caps the verdict, however good the rest looks.
A dedicated section for hose expiry, regulator discipline and cylinder placement, not just Western wiring advice.
One inside every bedroom, one outside each separate sleeping area, and at least one on every level of the home including the basement — the NFPA rule. For a three-bedroom single-storey home that is a minimum of four. Interlinking them so one sounding triggers the rest is a meaningful upgrade, because a fire that starts far from the bedrooms is the one that gives the least warning.
Every 10 years from the date of manufacture printed on the back of the unit, not from the day you installed it. The sensor degrades over time regardless of the battery, so a decade-old alarm that still chirps on the test button is not necessarily still detecting smoke. Test every alarm monthly and replace batteries as soon as the low-battery chirp starts.
Turn off the heat if you can reach the control safely and smother the pan with a lid, a baking tray or a fire blanket — never water, and never carry the pan outside. Water thrown into burning oil vaporises instantly and throws flaming oil across the room. Leave it covered and untouched until it is completely cold, and if it does not go out at once, leave the building and call the fire service.
Keep it upright on the floor and never above, beside or under the burner; turn the regulator knob off at the cylinder every night; use an ISI-marked hose and replace it before the expiry stamped on it; and test joints with soap solution, never a flame. If you smell gas, do not operate any switch — turn off the regulator, open the windows, get everyone out, and call for help from outside the building.