Thread: Wanted Insect Proof Smoke Detectors - that are Insect Proof!

Hello All,

This thread is about tools used to maintain goods and chattels - I figure protecting your possessions and one's family from fire fits into the scheme of things.

I digress - my wife previously bought a new photo electric smoke detector that was supposedly "insect proof". Within weeks we had insects harbouring inside it and they set the smoke detector off.

Quite recently I bought another "insect proof" photo electric smoke detector and I even sprayed a circle of 6 month long insect surface spray around the immediate circumference of the where the smoke detector was going to be mounted. Once the surface spray had dried I installed the smoke detector. Again, within weeks small insects had found a home inside the smoke detector. Of course they set the smoke detector off.

Our house is an un-screened old Queenslander

Has anyone come across a photo electric smoke detector which lives up to its advertised statement of being "insect proof"? If so can you let me know what brand it is? Plus where you got it from?

Another option - do you think that the photo electric sensor would work if the whole smoke detector was placed inside a length of pantihose or some similar very fine mesh product? Making a cover of commercial insect screen would not keep the little suckers that crawl into the smoke detectors out. This is because they are very mite-like = small.

Kind Regards
Lionel

So you want a smoke detector with an IP rating, and more so dust/insects than water

So IP6* , but this may be counter intuitive no dust = no smoke ?

https://www.clipsal.com/Home-Owner/P...y/Smoke-Alarms

And we have two types ionisation and photoelectric , one may be more insect resistant. In fact ionisation makes some sort of sense ?