Yes, but only if it is in range of the detector.
A tenant burned incense. A tenant with a newborn held a Hindu fire ceremony involving burning wood which created smells, smoke, and set off the communal fire alarm! Solutions considered:I'm ordering fire extinguisher, fire blanket and smoke alarms. Also considering a warning sign telling people not to throw water on oil fires on the stove. I was watching the cloud of smoke from the burning incense gather under a lamp and had to ask. It's not very far from the smoke alarm (nothing in my place is) and closer than the kitchen. I've had the alarm go off from smaller amounts of smoke from the kitchen. Enlighten, oh wise ones. Join Date: Jun 1999. Smoke alarms 'scan' for particulate matter larger and more densely than what a cigarette or a small bit of incense produces. Keep on adding more and more cigarettes or incense, or, hold it right under the alarm and you'll get it to go off. Interesting question. I know a building where the smoke alarms are so sensitive that even aerosol deodorants set off the alarms! However, the fumes from insense cones should not affect the smoke alarm, providing they are burning slowly. Any type of smoke, steam or particles denser than air will set off a smoke alarm. This means that smoke emitted from the incense will set off a smoke alarm when in range of the detector. This Site Might Help You. RE: Will burning incense set off smoke alarms? My room is decent sized and the smoke alarm is a few feet outside of my door in a family/living room type thing.. RE: Would burning Incense in a very small room set off the smoke alarm? I have a small room that I would like to burn Incense in but there is a smoke alarm in the centre of the ceiling.
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