Where to install small fire extinguisher?

fireguy

Buy nothing smaller than a 2A10BC rated extinguisher. Buy only one of the following brands , Amerex, Ansul, Badger, or Buckeye. Those are commercial quality extinguishers. When you go into Home Cheapo or Lowes, look to see iwhat brand they have protecting the store. Normally they do not trust the crap they sell to protect the store. Same for most hardware stores, they pay more for commercial quality.

Mr Chips

Is that because they have no choice and are required to have those on hand because of fire codes? I would think that a commercial building (like a bix box store) would be required to use a higher rated, as they have hundredes of people in them at any given time, and are full of chemicals.

I'm not saying it is bad advice to get the best, just wondering if that's the reason you don't see a little Kiddie extinguisher (pun intended) hanging up in Lowes

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fireguy

Reason # 1
Small 2 # FX do not meet any fire codes. Minimum allowed size is 2A10BC. Required FX size and type is determined by travel distance from FX to next closest FX, type of hazard, fire load, presence of a sprinkler system.

Reason # 2
Usually the FX is installed and maintained by a 3rd party contractor. They do not sell and install poor quality FX. They sell and install FX from Ansul, Amerex, Badger and Buckeye. I prefer Amerex because of the factory support, & the quality of the FX. We do not recharge Kiddie brand FX.

daveb1

As for where to install it, it needs to be between the exit and the most likely point of the fire origin. You don't want to go past the fire to get the extinguisher and then be trapped if the fire doesn't go out.