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by 4ad 2973 days ago
Going on a tangent here...

I don't know the failure rate of building file alarms, but the damn ceiling alarms seem to have a failure rate of 99.99%. We don't use those in Europe, and every time I travel to the US I get frustrated beyond belief how they scream at me every time I cook or take a shower.

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We use them in the UK, but they are sensitive to only smoke particles in the air and not heat.