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Smoke & CO Detector Installation · Pennsylvania
Hardwired smoke alarms should be replaced about every 10 years, and interconnected so one alarm sounds them all. Homes with gas appliances or an attached garage also need carbon monoxide alarms. An electrician installs new hardwired alarms and adds interconnection.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh rowhomes and older suburbs carry original wiring and small services.
Across the Mid-Atlantic, homes deal with humid summers, coastal storms and occasional ice. Permit offices, utilities and housing stock differ by city, which affects how smoke & co detector installation is planned and scheduled. These local guides cover the Pennsylvania cities where we have written specific notes.
Philadelphia requires smoke alarms in homes and carbon monoxide detectors in homes with fuel-burning appliances or attached garages, and landlords must provide working alarms in rental units. Rowhouses with gas heat and water heaters in the basement especially benefit from CO alarms near bedrooms.
Utility: PECO
Pittsburgh's rowhouses and older homes in Lawrenceville, Bloomfield and Polish Hill often have gas furnaces and water heaters in basements, which makes carbon monoxide alarms near bedrooms important, and Pennsylvania requires CO detectors in residential buildings with fossil-fuel appliances or attached garages when sold or leased. Smoke alarms are required in homes, and renovations under permit typically call for hardwired, interconnected alarms with battery backup.
Utility: Duquesne Light
Pennsylvania requires carbon monoxide detectors in residential buildings with fossil-fuel appliances or attached garages when they are sold or leased, and Allentown's rowhouses often have gas heat and water heaters in the basement, making CO alarms near bedrooms important. Rowhouses split into apartments need alarms in each unit.
Utility: PPL Electric Utilities
1. Check existing alarms
Ages, locations and wiring are checked.
2. Replace and interconnect
New alarms are installed in each bedroom, outside sleeping areas and on each level.
3. Test
Every alarm is tested together.
Electricians set their own prices; local permit fees and utility requirements add to these factors.
Permits come from the city or county where the home is. For example: Philadelphia: Electrical permits in Philadelphia are issued by the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L&I) to licensed electrical contractors. Pittsburgh: Electrical permits in Pittsburgh come from the city's Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspections (PLI); surrounding boroughs and townships handle their own. Allentown: Electrical permits inside the city come from the City of Allentown's building standards and safety office; surrounding townships issue their own.
Philadelphia: PECO. Pittsburgh: Duquesne Light. Allentown: PPL Electric Utilities.
About every 10 years from the manufacture date on the back of the alarm.
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