Brown smoke detectors

[Besoeker]

Brown smole detectors?
Why would you want to detect just brown smoke....................

 

[Little Bill]

Brown smole detectors?
Why would you want to detect just brown smoke....................

Because it could be disguising itself!

 

[K8MHZ]

I think that applies to heat detectors. Painting them would have an adverse affect on the rating and functionality of the unit. You can take smoke detectors apart, remove the electronics and spray paint the housings. Or, you can try darkening them with shoe polish. The down side of doing this is that if the unit ever becomes defective it's not a simple change out. You have to go through the dis-assembly re-assembly process all over again.

My First Alert smoke detectors say DO NOT PAINT on them.

 

[goldstar]

My First Alert smoke detectors say DO NOT PAINT on them.

Well then I guess you can't paint them

 

[GoldDigger]

Well then I guess you can't paint them

But you can let somebody else paint them so that you can no longer see the DO NOT PAINT marking.

 

[kwired]

My First Alert smoke detectors say DO NOT PAINT on them.

They have to mark them, some people are not smart enough to realize you have to protect the internals or plug air circulation openings if you do paint them.

The problem though is that there is not enough surface area to apply all possible warning labels that may apply, so they just choose what seems to be the most common things that come up.



And if your house burns down and the smoke detector was painted...... what does that have to do with insurance coverage?

The painted detector did not cause the fire. Now if someone was killed in that fire, there could be a debate over whether or not painting the detector may have helped save that life. Smoke detectors are people protection and not property protection devices.

 

[gadfly56]

They have to mark them, some people are not smart enough to realize you have to protect the internals or plug air circulation openings if you do paint them.

The problem though is that there is not enough surface area to apply all possible warning labels that may apply, so they just choose what seems to be the most common things that come up.



And if your house burns down and the smoke detector was painted...... what does that have to do with insurance coverage?

The painted detector did not cause the fire. Now if someone was killed in that fire, there could be a debate over whether or not painting the detector may have helped save that life. Smoke detectors are people protection and not property protection devices.

Conversely, if you had a sprinkler that had been painted and it failed to operate and there was a property loss, then there might be an insurance issue.