I am a bit confused, whether to use a heat detector as recommended for protecting against kitchen fires, which basically means that fire has to occur and start burning the place down before the heat reaches the detector head, these heat detectors work on rate of rise of heat or ambient temperature and then raise the alarm by which time a fire may have spread far too advanced to tackle and possibly burn the whole place down before emergency services can arrive.
Wouldn't it be better if smoke detectors were used instead, despite being set off regularly by food being cooked, an extractor fan should prevent unnecessary smoke accumulating unless the food was either burning or cooking very smoky food.
A Smoke detector would give an early warning such as a pan of oil overheating would give out thick smoke before it reaches ignition point, so if I prefer smoke detector instead of heat detector, can I argue with the fire safety officer that my idea of a Fire alarm is an Early Warning, and prevention and not post warning after a fire has broken.
Your opinions on this appreciated.
(Please refrain from making sarcastic comments, that won't help, just suggest why do you think that a heat detector is better than a smoke detector, my aim is to prevent a fire and not detect a fire)
Wouldn't it be better if smoke detectors were used instead, despite being set off regularly by food being cooked, an extractor fan should prevent unnecessary smoke accumulating unless the food was either burning or cooking very smoky food.
A Smoke detector would give an early warning such as a pan of oil overheating would give out thick smoke before it reaches ignition point, so if I prefer smoke detector instead of heat detector, can I argue with the fire safety officer that my idea of a Fire alarm is an Early Warning, and prevention and not post warning after a fire has broken.
Your opinions on this appreciated.
(Please refrain from making sarcastic comments, that won't help, just suggest why do you think that a heat detector is better than a smoke detector, my aim is to prevent a fire and not detect a fire)
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