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Old 09-12-2015, 10:18 AM
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Default New Smoke Detector Regs

New houses no longer have to have hard wired smoke/co detectors--they are now allowed to have 10 year lithium battery smoke detectors which are not interconnected.

Now if your smoke detector is less than 5 years old replace the battery with a 9 volt lithium ion one