How Many Smoke Detectors Do Have Up?

We have one in every room upsairs aside from bathrooms and two in the basement and per requirements here one carbon monoxide detector on each level. Also have a smoke detector in the garage

The question should be not how many but WHERE you have them installed. I live in an 1000 foot apartment and have one in all 3 bedrooms plus one in my hallway close to the bedrooms. I have none in the 2 bathrooms, the kitchen nor the loving room or dining room. I would advise a professional telling you where to put them.

If you use gas, oil, or wood heat, consider getting a carbon monoxide detector too.

Cheese and crackers!! Four!! I have a 2200 sq ft home, we have two per the alarm company owned by my cousins so they were being more than honest.

You need one up, one down, and a heat sensor in the laundry area because if your dryer burns it will be on fire before it smokes so a smoke detector is useless.

for your own sanity take the one out of the kitchen because every time you cook it will be going off.

Anyway our up is in the hallway by the bedrooms, it is far enough away from the kitchen that unless we burn dinner it doesn't go off. The one in the basement is near the furnace and water heater since that is most likely what will go up down there.

Anything more is redundant and the one in the kitchen is just useless.

Oh our laundry is off our kitchen so if something did malfunction the heat sensor will catch that too you just don't want a smoke detector anywhere near the kitchen, toast will set it off.

I honestly don't know if you can buy heat sensors, it is part of our alarm system. They are just so much better for some applications.

Multiple levels sounds good to have one at each level.

We have 4; our house is 2 stories and 2500 sq ft. You should have them in the hallway outside the bedroom(s), then in the main living areas, but not too close to fireplaces or the kitchen (otherwise they will go off due to cooking, having a fire in the fireplace, etc). Also you should have a carbon monoxide detector on each floor as well. Those are mounted on the wall. We have one in the downstairs foyer and one near the bedrooms. Also, it's a good idea to keep a fire extinguisher in your kitchen. (We have one under the sink.)

Sounds like you have enough. You want at least one per floor and one near the bedrooms and one near the kitchen. Don't put the one in the kitchen directly over the stove/oven, but a few feet away. They should also be replaced every 7-9 years. I wrote when they were purchased on them with a Sharpie so I know when to replace them. Also test your batteries frequently.

we have 1 per floor.

Ours were installed by the contractor, so I am going to assume that what we have is to meet code. We have one just inside EACH AND EVERY bedroom. AND one in the hallways just outside those bedrooms.

None in the kitchen or other rooms.

FWIW, we also are in a one story home, so no basement, no up/downstairs of any kind.

ETA: Oh.. I might reconsider the one in the kitchen, unless it is code where you live. My experience with a smoke detector in or near the kitchen is that is goes off everytime cheese drips off of a pizza in the oven, and eventually ends up disconnected anyway. :/

Sounds good. When we had our home inspection, I asked the inspector about smoke detectors. He said the most important places for them are in hallways outside of bedrooms, and the kitchen. He said many people put the detectors only inside the rooms, but having them in the hallways gives a warning and time. Also, he said one on each floor (ours in one story,) and one near the electrical panel.

We have three. One in the hallway, one in the kitchen, and one in the closet that has the electrical panel. (Our bedrooms are clustered right together, in a small hallway.)

ETA: Yes, monoxide detector!!

We have two but our house is an 1100sq ft ranch. One in the hallway close to where all of the bedroom doors are and one on the basement stairs. We also have 2 carbon monoxide detectors (basement and main floor).

I'm actually a bigger freak about fire extinguishers. We have one in the mudroom that's for kitchen, grill or garage fires. Another under the kitchen sink, one at the top of the basement stairs. The granddaddy of them all is in my bedroom. I picture that if there ever were a fire at night I'd be able to use it to clear a path to the kids and get them out of the house. And I'm a freak about making sure that there are clear paths to all doors before we go to bed at night so that we could find our way out in the dark and that the kids know how to open their windows to jump out in an emergency.

We have 4, hallway, and 3 bedrooms.

We have 1 smoke detector and one carbon monoxide detector both upstairs and downstairs.

I think it depends on your house is set up as well: our last house we also had two smoke detectors, even though it was only one story, but it had a long hallway so we needed a second one outside those bedrooms.

I think better safe than sorry! Smoke detectors are cheap enough...

You really need one in every bedroom for sure. My dad was a firefighter and was insistent on that rule -- he would nag people to death about it!

I have one in every bedroom, the upstairs hallway, two downstairs and two in the basement. I also have a carbon monoxide detector on each floor. My house is 2600 sq.ft.

The one in your kitchen could cause you headaches if it isn't a lower-sensitivity one made just for kitchens. Cooking can set regular ones off.

Our house is 4000SF+. We have 10.

Upstairs, 1 in each of the 3 bedrooms near the door, 1 in hallway, 1 in gameroom Total 5

Downstairs, 1 in each of the 2 bedrooms near the door, 1 in each hallway (2), 1 in hallway close to kitchen but far enough to not be actvated with cooking. Total 5

This was a city code when we built the house. Around here, as soon as your house hits 5000 SF, you have to have a sprinkler system installed as well, indoors.

We have a small townhome, one upstairs, one downstairs in the "middle" does it for us. However, I think at least one on each floor, and two on the kitchen's floor if you have things like fireplaces or trees close to the house that could catch fire. Do you have carbon monoxide ones too?

I think we have 1 on each floor of the house. We live in a 4 story townhome, so guessing (I'm not going to run up and down the stairs right now, lol) I would say we have 4 in the house. I don't think you are over doing it. Better to be on the safe side!

We have 9 in 3300 sq. ft.

One in each bedroom (5)
Family room, office, top of stairwell.
Plus one extra that is connected to our security system that will automatically call the Fire Dept if set off.

Smoke rises so it might work better to put one at the top of the stairs rather than at the bottom. That's where our alarm company put their wired device.

Don't put a smoke alarm too close to the kitchen stove or every it will go off every time you fry something. Same thing with the bathroom, the steam from the shower must look like smoke to the detector because we had one located in the hallway that would go off as soon as the door opened after a hot shower.

smoke rises so you need some upstairs too.

We have one in each bedroom, and one in the kitchen/dining/living room (it is all on big room)

One in almost every room (not the bathrooms.)

We have 7 one in each bedroom (4 bedrooms), living room and two in the hallway (one outside the bedrooms and one near the laundry closet). Our home was built as a short term vacation home so they installed them for a rental unit.

I don't think you need too many but you just never know. Our old home had two in the main house (living kitchen area) and one outside the bedrooms. We also had a finished basement with one down there too.

We have smoke detectors in each bedroom and in the hall leading up to the bedrooms.