Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

At less than $50 per unit, X-Sense serves up effective smoke and CO monitoring, with the option to interconnect up to 24 of them to protect the largest homes. If don’t want to spend big bucks on a ...

There’s never a bad time to invest in home fire safety, and the best place to start is checking your home’s smoke alarms to ensure they’re working properly. These invaluable devices protect you and ...

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6-8 2016 – ISC West 2016 – Sands Booth #20031 — Nortek Security & Control LLC, a Nortek Company (NASDAQ: NTK) and leader in the security, smart home and wellness ...

A large number of people have a smoke alarm in their home. It is attached to the ceiling, beeps when the battery fails, and sits in oblivion until toast is burned or toasted. That’s honestly how it ...

The best smoke detectors are a necessity for every home, quickly detecting fire, smoke, and carbon monoxide to alert you to potential danger. As a residential carpenter, I've installed plenty of ...

This attractively designed, pint-sized device—it measures just 3.1 inches across—connects to 2.4GHz Wi-Fi networks (i.e., it’s incompatible with a 5GHz network) and is connected via the ubiquitous ...

When a fire starts at the far end of your home, the first alarm to sense smoke is rarely the one outside your bedroom. If your detectors are not linked, you may not hear that first warning until the ...

Q: About 10 years ago, I replaced the original wired smoke alarms in my home with wired dual sensors that use both photoelectric and ionization technology. Because I’ve read that in-home smoke ...

Nearly three years ago, a fire swept through an Erie family child care home during the overnight hours that claimed the lives of five children – all under the age of nine. The fire chief at the time ...