Quote Originally Posted by Asiel View Post
I guess those smoke detectors work the same everywhere.We went through a few of those wake up calls until we got fed up and unplugged the wires. Seems they were good only to warn you that you burned the toast anyway. I smoked the house once with burning oil on the stove and the darn thing didn't go off. We're non smokers and don't allow smoking on the property so I didn't mind unplugging it. I don't cook enough to worry about a fire either and we always check the stove after a meal. We mostly use the bbq for most of our food.
Mine are centrally wired and all have battery backup too. I'll put up with the annoyance of them maybe going off once in a while. What if you had an electrical fire??? That could smolder between the walls for days - that's what they speculate happened at my brother's house. There's a lot more ways for a fire to start in your home that are not just from cooking or smoking.