To ask what you have at home

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Was talking with a colleagues yesterday about safety devises at home and they made out that I was kind of over the top with things I have.
They got the house alarm and ring cameras for security outside and things like first aid kits and co2 thingy but started laughing when I told them I had fire extinguishers upstairs and downstairs, with fire blankets in kitchen.
Just wondered what people have in their homes. I'd assumed everyone would have everything they could

Provided by the landlord as part of the house- smoke alarms, co2 monitor and the peep hole in the door. And locks on the gates.
I have bought first aid kit, supply of medicines (painkillers, cold and flu etc), CCTV, fire extinguisher, fire blanket, window locks to stop them opening fully and standard baby proofing.
Some of these I find over the top, to be honest. However my partner had a house fire and was burgled when he was a child. He remembers the scum bags even stole his little toys. So he can be forgiven for being cautious.

@TreacheryPepper good to check everyone is breathing! 😄

We have smoke alarms and a carbon monoxide - CO - detector

(CO2 is carbon dioxide)

Smoke alarms
Carbon dioxide monitor

Alarm system, cctv, carbon monoxide detector, fire alarms, first aid kit. I would say you are OTT they are all pretty useful things to have although not sure I could make a fire extinguisher look pretty in my hall way

We have ring cameras and flood lights, first aid kit, co monitor, smoke detectors, fire blankets and an escape ladder. We've also practiced and discussed fire evacuation routes and I shut all internal doors at night or if we go out.

@MayMorris

Just a bit of advice. Relative who is fire person. Keep your door keys close to the door (within reach) at night. Not in lock but say on a hook next to the door but out of way of people reaching through your post box. Relative tells me quite a lot of people overcome with smoke inhalation and collapsed are found right by their doors, or close to doors because they can’t find their keys to get out or because they try to go back into another room to get keys

yup. I have got three sets of french windows plus the front door. When I lock up at night, the keys stay in the front door and during the day they live about a foot away, all the french windows have hooks close by with the right keys on. We used to do annual fire safety training in the NHS. The other thing I learned is to have a plan for when you have got visitors or are a visitor elsewhere, when you go to a pub, restarant or similar, clock where the fire exits are. The bloke who did them was a retired fireman (smoke damaged lungs) and he said if you go into a pub and see a bunch of burly men sat at the table by the fire exit, those will be the firemen.

Ring camera/doorbell and house alarm (moved from a very rough area last year and just bought them with us), first aid kits (including medicines and a thousand million plasters because DD steals them on a regular basis for her dinosaurs), co2 and fire alarms.
I thought everybody had some type of first aid kit. We even have one in the car with Calpol in.

None on OP’s list - however, the invaluable security of kind & caring neighbours

We have a 3day survival kit. It's totally normal where we live

What does it consist of? I’m sure we could survive for a lot longer than that without any special preparation.

Wouldn't cross my mind to have a fire extinguisher in my home, I don't know anyone that does that.

DH has had them in the past. There are probably still a few scattered about in the house and garden. Except they are/ were ones he'd picked up in random places years before, so when we actually needed one for the oven once it barely worked.

We're both hoarders--my stuff is limited to a couple of rooms, but DH has cluttered everywhere including thoroughfares. I'm genuinely concerned about how we would escape from a fire.

I have a smoke detector and a very basic first aid kit.

We live in a bungalow with 4 exit doors so there's always going to be a way out. No smoke alarms, no fire blankets. We'd grab the dcat and the ddog and run.

I've got first aid kit, OTC meds and a peep hole in the door, I am looking for a fire extinguisher or blanket for the kitchen at the moment, my microwave caught fire and luckily it didn't get going fully just smouldering, so was able to get it outside quickly without getting hurt but if it had properly caught then I would have just needed to leave and call the fire service, and I realise how risky it was picking it up and carrying it even smouldering.
Lesson learned, something needed for if something catches fire in the house, especially something electrical.

3 smoke detectors a carbon monoxide detector a first aid kit. I once lived on a house that had a fire blanket but when a pan caught fire I just panicked and threw it outside

A friend from school died in a fire over the weekend, only 40 years old so right now I don't think you can have too much fire safety stuff

I have smoke detectors and will be installing a co2 monitor as I have a gas fire. I have first aid kits, the usual plasters and paracetamol/ibuprofen. I do not have fire extinguishers, burglar alarm or ring doorbell, though I notice about a quarter of my neighbourhood have the latter.

Smoke and CO2 detectors plus a basic first aid kit.

The only other thing I have, which I bought when my children were very young and I was more cautious than usual, is an metal escape ladder so that we could get out of an upstairs window in the event of a fire.

Smoke detectors and quite a comprehensive first aid kit. No fire extinguishers or blanket. However I am quite risk averse, I have calculated the best routes out of the house in any emergency, keys to doors are always to hand or actually in the doors. Escape routes are always kept clear. (Risk officer here...)

I don't have any of those, apart from a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, which I used to have in my car when I lived in Germany (where it was required).

Why do so many people have CO2 detectors? These are only usually used in settings where there are CO2 cylinders. Wouldn't carbon monoxide (CO) detectors be more useful, for faulty boilers, etc.?

@Scarby9

None of those. I have plasters, paracetamol and cough mixture.

I also have Naproxen and nosey neighbours.

[quote poshme]@JudgeRindersMinder I'm not sure it's ridiculous actually.

A close family member of mine was killed by CO gas. Went to bed, and just died.

They cost about £15-£20. Why wouldn't you get one? CO doesn't smell, you don't know it's there. It just kills you. [/quote]
I Do have one, and I had it before it was mandated-they’re not ridiculous. What IS ridiculous is enshrining it in an unenforceable law.
And to be realistic about it, that £15-20 is now more than a lot of people have to feed themselves on. “No food this week kids but you won’t get carbon monoxide poisoning because the law says so”

We have security cameras, fire alarms, a fire blanket in the kitchen and a first aid kit plus all the usual extras like plasters, antiseptic cream etc.

If you have an alarm and don't activate it doesn't it invalidate your insurance?

We have fire / smoke / CO detectors, house alarm, first aid stuff in house and a kit in the car that's one of the ones you need to drive in France.

I also have fire extinguishers and fire blankets. In my view, of the things listed this is the most sensible and the ones that will save your life (in addition to smoke and carbon monoxide alarms).

@Scarby9

None of those. I have plasters, paracetamol and cough mixture.

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