I received a First Alert Smoke Alarm to facilitate this review; all opinions are my own.
Safety products don’t have to be ugly! First Alert proves that with their style-centric smoke alarms. These tiny little devices are not only approved by my firefighter for their safety design, but I approve of the way they look!
First Alert P1000 Atom Smoke Alarm
As someone who has at least 15 detectors in our home, I know that you can never have too many. While for years safety recommendations stated every home should have a smoke alarm on every level, that didn’t provide nearly enough cover and worse if a fire started in a bedroom with a closed door a fire could take hold before a detector picked up the problem. Now it’s recommended that a sensor is placed in EVERY sleeping area as well as each living space.
But why do we have so many smoke alarms? We don’t live in a mansion, far from, our home is only about 1800 square feet. Those extra alarms are in the garage, crawl spaces, and the attic. They’re installed in remote areas of our house that would give a fire the chance to get burning before we noticed it or before it got into our living space and set off our alarms. Having the extra detectors is an inexpensive way to make it more likely for us to catch any fire incident at its origin.
We also have a Leeo Smart Alert Smoke/CO Remote Alarm Monitor for iOS and Android installed that “listens” for our smoke detector. When it hears it going off, it records a few seconds of the sound and notifies me via a text and email that the alarm has been triggered. It also sends the audio recording so I can confirm that it is the alarm and listen for any other telltale background sounds of an emergency.
The new photoelectric First Alert P1000 Atom Smoke Alarm is a small investment for big fire protection in your home. Installation of the tiny little P1000 was a breeze with their Smart Clip system. In fact, getting it out of the clamshell packaging was the hardest part – even I could have mounted it!
The 3oz detector is about 2-1/2” tall and 2” in diameter – not at all what you expect for a detector! It’s now mounted on the ceiling above my nightstand in the master bedroom. It’s the second detector in our room because my over caution firefighter husband is convinced I’m going to start an electrical fire will all of the chargers I have there for my many tech devices.
Where could you use some hefty fire detection in such a small little package?
Yes and yes
Thanks for the giveaway…we check our smoke detectors every month; replace batteries every New Years Day !
I check them fairly frequently 🙂
We have a lot of smoke detectors in our house (we recently bought and are renovating a house that was formerly a bunch of apartments) – we’re still in the process of updating the old detectors with new, but have changed the batteries on the “main” ones (kitchen, bedrooms, main hallway, etc.)
Yes, in fact I changed one the other day. We have 3 in our apartment.
yes we have two smoke detectors right now
I check them fairly frequently. Change batteries about once a year
yes, I use these in every room, change batteries 2 x a year
We have 6 and recently checked them!
I have 2 right now and just changed the batteries yesterday. 🙂
Yes we have an older version and yes I did check the batteries in it recently.
We have a few smoke detectors. We just installed them recently, so they have fresh batteries.
I have one, with fresh batteries, but don’t know that I trust it. We had another that went off wheneter I opened the front door, so we threw it out! I believe we do need a new one.
We replaced our batteries a few months ago.
I have one smoke detector and changed the batteries two days ago. Thanks.
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Yes we have smoke detectors but it’s been more than 6 months.
No I haven’t, but I should do it now.
No I do not have one yet. This would be very helpful.
Yes, we have four and just changed our batteries tonight as we do every six months.
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We have 5 smoke detectors and we replaced the batteries in July.
We have tons of smoke detectors and CO detectors but have not checked them recently. We’ll be changing batteries tomorrow!
we check them when we change the clocks, which is tonight actually
Yes I have a detector and I just checked the batteries.
checked at last time change have to check again soon with the next time change
We have 2 in our house, one is broken. I haven’t checked the battery in a while.
Yes we do and I check the batteries during daylight savings 2x a year
we have 4 detectors. we date the detectors when we change the batteries.
Yes, we have a couple of smoke detectors in the house and I tested the battery to one of them within the last six months.
I have a wired smoke alarm so I do not know how to check the batteries. I do not know how many I have.
yes we have3 working need a few more
I do have a smoke detector and check the batteries the first of every month
Yes we do have one and Always check the Batteries ever so often.
Haven’t checked it in the last 6 months…But we know it works when we leave the bathroom door open after a hot shower!
we have one upstairs and on the main floor and sadly i haven’t checked the batteries since we moved in in june.
Yes, we check it when we change our clocks
We have 2 detectors and check the systems once a month……
Yes we have smoke detectors in the house and we have checked the batteries in the last 6 months.
i have on but the batteries need changing.
We have four detectors and honestly we have not checked the batteries but I am going to do so now.
we don’t even have one
I have two that are hard wired, I don’t check the batteries because they will beep when they need a battery change.
Our detectors are wired with battery backup, forgot to mention that.
We have two and no we haven’t checked the batteries in I don’t know how long.
Yes. I have a smoke and carbon dioxide detector and check regularly.
Yes – every change of time
We just bought a home and it has no smoke detectors!
we have 1 in the hallway by the bedrooms, thinking I may need more to cover all the areas of the house.. I do try to remember to check the batteries every 6 months, Don’t think I checked since last christmas.
Actually it just popped into my mind my husband was just testing them the other day right in my ear. I momentarily forgot about that.
We have have two and need to check the batteries.
We have 2 smoke detectors but they’re both wired. They don’t run off of batteries.
I’d recommend getting a 3rd that’s on batteries to be safe!