Whether you live in the city or in the country, fires can be destructive – especially during the holidays when people have lit their trees, candles, and various other holiday preparations. Whenever you have a lot of lights or open flames, it because doubly important to protect your homes against fire. With thirty-eight percent of fatal fire injuries occurring in homes with no smoke alarms, installing an alarm like the Kidde Worry-Free Alarm is a simple step you can take to help protect your family.
An alarm for every room in the house!
Installation was very easy. Since I was installing my alarm in the kitchen, I just needed the single drywall screw to attach the alarm to the wall. All said, installation took about 2 minutes. The benefit of the special Kidde Worry Free Kitchen Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm is that it uses “intelligent” sensing technology to prevent any “false alarms.” With my old smoke detector, the alarm would go off every time I cooked hamburgers. (I promise I wasn’t burning them!) Since installing the Kidde Worry Free Alarm, I haven’t had to throw open windows and start fanning the detector with a dish towel – not even once! The Kitchen alarm also has a carbon monoxide detector and a talking voice alarm.
A “smart” alarm that detects real fires vs. cooking smoke.
I didn’t know until recently that smoke alarms have a “lifespan” of about 10 years. Since I’m not sure how old our alarms are, I’m taking the step of replacing all of our smoke alarms with new smoke alarms. With the old smoke detectors, I needed to replace the battery every 6 months to ensure the alarms were in working order. Kidde Worry Free Smoke Alarms are powered by a long-life lithium battery, which means you don’t have to replace any batteries…ever. Once you install the Kidde alarm, it automatically turns “on” and doesn’t need to be replaced for 10 years.
Not to get too “mathy”, but replacing your smoke alarm’s 9V battery twice a year costs at least $5/year. For 10 years, that means you’ll spend $50 in replacement batteries. The cost of the Kidde Worry-Free Smoke Alarm starts at $25. That means you’ll save about $25 or more across the life of your alarm, just by switching to Kidde Worry-Free Alarms.
This holiday season, you can help ensure that your friends and families are safe against fire and carbon monoxide. With four different alarm options – one for the Living Area, Kitchen, Hallway (which includes an LED “light” to help light escape routes,) and Bedroom (with a talking voice alarm to help wake people up) – Kidde has a smoke alarm for every room in the house. You can find Kidde Worry Free Smoke Alarms at select home improvement stores and other retailers nationwide and costs $25-$49 (depending on the model.)
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One winner will receive the Kidde Worry Free Kitchen Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm.
Disclaimer: This post consists of my (and/or fellow tester) opinions only. Your experiences may be different. No compensation was given for this review/giveaway. I did receive a free product from the manufacturer or their representing PR agency to use and test for the purposes of this review. This did not affect the outcome of this review.
I have smoke detectors throughout the house, and I replace batteries twice a year. Wouldn’t live without them!
So important to have these in every house!
1 in every room. replace batteries on my birthday
Yes we have 1 and replace twice a year also
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I have one smoke detector in my apartment. I havent lived here long enough to change the batterys
I have one smoke detector which does me no good because the battery is dead!
I have 3, and I replace the batteries the first of every year
I have 2 and replace the batteries when the low battery beep goes off
i have 2 and just put new batteries in last month
I have several. The batteries are changed out around time changes.
My husband is a firefighter and will be happy to have this in our home
I changed the batteries when they start beeping
Thanks for the giveaway…we have several smoke alarms; check batteries / test alarm every month
I have two and change the batteries every six months.
1 and we change the battery when it beeps
I have one in every room and replace batteries with the time change.
yes there’s one in every room!
We have smoke detectors in our apartment. I don’t check the batteries often enough.
I had no idea that fire alarms have life spans! I think I need to replace mine, just in case!
I need to get one of these for my kitchen. Every time I use our oven it goes off. Can’t bake while my day sleeping SO is sleeping.
Thanks for reminding everyone how important these are!