According to the United States Fire Administration, statistics directly relating to 414,000 residential fires in 2007 include 2,895 deaths and 7.5 billion dollars in property damage alone. The impact of fire sprinklers on potential property damage and harm to persons at home has been well documented.

Residential fire sprinklers can prevent death and damages caused by fires every year. While systems such as smoke and heat based alarms can alert the home owners of the presence of fire or smoke, they are not designed to extinguish the fires directly. A fire sprinkler system can offer the homeowner an assurance of safety beyond these more common devices.

Fire sprinklers at home offer the advantage of extinguishing fires directly in one room to prevent the spread of flames throughout other areas of the home. While useful for the general home owner, those who have small children, an elderly individual or a person whose mobility is limited are of an increased benefit. Fire sprinklers in the home offer the increased security of knowing that the fire can, at the absolute minimum, curtail the progress of a fire thereby giving the homeowner and their family precious time to evacuate the property safely.

Fire sprinkler systems can be installed both in new structures under construction or retro-fitted into any existing structure. They can be installed in one room where a fire risk may be more prevalent as in a garage or kitchen or in an area where a fire source such as a fireplace or heat exchange unit may be present.

Contemporary residential fire sprinklers systems are available in a wide variety of different aesthetic styles meant to conform to the home’s decor. The sprinklers can sit flush to the ceiling systems and immediately emerge when activated to extinguish any fires in the area. Others will then deploy upon fire or heat sensing activation if needed.

Using heat, smoke and fire sprinklers is an important preventive measure for helping insure the overall safety of your family and property.