{"id":338,"date":"2008-05-22T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T11:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2012-02-16T00:15:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T07:15:01","slug":"protect-your-family-home-from-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/protect-your-family-home-from-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Protect Your Family &amp; Home From Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to protecting your family from a home fire, you should spend some time learning about the many life-saving products available, particularly the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/articles\/protect-your-home.asp\">home fire sprinkler system.<\/a><br \/>\nWhile smoke detectors are an excellent start, they only give you a warning of a fire; they do nothing to extinguish it. <\/p>\n<p>Using both smoke detectors and sprinklers can reduce the loss of life by up to 98 percent, so why aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t more new homes installing a fire sprinkler system?  The main reason is the lack of awareness and perception. Most consumers are so overwhelmed with product selection for their new home \u00e2\u20ac\u201c that they overlook safety, simply because their builder isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offering it as an option. Many homeowners assume it is expensive, when actually it averages 1 percent of the total building cost during new construction. Other misconceptions are that they are unappealing and will accidentally discharge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to protecting your family from a home fire, you should spend some time learning about the many life-saving products available, particularly the home fire sprinkler system. While smoke detectors are an excellent start, they only give you a warning of a fire; they do nothing to extinguish it. Using both smoke detectors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-houseplans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehousedesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}