Spring Cleaning & Home Safety: Don’t Forget Your Alarms!

Spring is the perfect time to refresh your home decluttering, deep cleaning, and making every space feel fresh and ready for the brighter days ahead. But while you’re busy scrubbing and organising, there’s one essential step that often gets overlooked: checking your home safety alarms.

A clean home is a happy home, but a safe home is a protected home. Taking just a few minutes to test and maintain your smoke alarms, carbon monoxide (CO) alarms, and heat alarms could make all the difference in protecting your loved ones.

Why Checking Your Alarms is Just as Important as Cleaning

Many people assume their alarms are working fine—until it’s too late. Just like dust builds up in hidden corners of your home, alarms can become faulty over time due to battery failure, dust accumulation, or wear and tear.

Neglecting these essential safety devices puts you and your family at unnecessary risk. A quick check can literally save lives.

Where Should Your Alarms Be Installed?

To ensure maximum protection, make sure your home has the right alarms in the right places:

Smoke Alarms – Install them on every floor of your home, especially along escape routes, and in key rooms like the living room and bedrooms. These detect smoke and fire early, giving you crucial time to react.

Carbon Monoxide (CO) Alarms – Should be placed in living rooms and bedrooms where there are gas appliances or fuel-burning appliances nearby. Unlike smoke, carbon monoxide is invisible and odourless, making an alarm the only reliable way to detect it.

Heat Alarms – Ideal for kitchens and laundry rooms, where everyday activities like cooking or drying clothes create heat and fumes that can trigger false alarms in traditional smoke detectors.

The Alarming Truth About Home Safety

1 in 4 homes do not have a working smoke alarm.


Homes with working smoke alarms are four times less likely to experience a fatal fire.


1 in 3 homes do not have a carbon monoxide alarm.


Carbon monoxide (CO) can travel through walls—it’s odourless, colourless, and tasteless, so without an alarm, you wouldn’t know it’s there.


Heat alarms are less prone to false alarms from cooking fumes or dust but provide vital early fire detection.

Quick Steps to Check & Maintain Your Alarms

Test Your Alarms – Press the test button on each alarm to make sure it’s still working.


Replace Batteries – If your alarm isn’t hardwired, change batteries at least once a year.


Clean Them – Dust and dirt can affect sensors, so wipe down your alarms with a soft, dry cloth.


Check Expiry Dates – Alarms don’t last forever! Smoke and CO alarms should be replaced every 10 years (or sooner if recommended by the manufacturer).


Never Ignore a Beeping Alarm – If an alarm chirps or beeps, don’t just take the battery out find out why and fix the issue immediately.

A Safer Home Starts with Simple Steps

As you spring clean your home, think beyond just making it look good—make it safer too. A few minutes spent checking your alarms could prevent disaster and give you peace of mind.

This season, let’s spring clean smarter—freshen up your space while keeping your home protected! 🏡✨

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