Special Order Fire Alarms

[FireAlarmTech9]

@firefreak57

@MayerFire

Also, if the ceiling is painted a different color than white, the obvious solution is simply not painting the smoke detector, even if it sticks out. If they’re going to paint over it, then they might as well just not install it there in the first place.

Yeah. Unfortunately some people probably don’t see it that way. I think at entertainment venues and theme parks (for example, Disney) do get custom devices because they want them to blend in and make them less noticeable to add to the experience, although I’m not quite sure why they’d think a fire alarm would stick out when most people walk by them with complete disregard for them at all; there’s not a whole lot of people that would say, “that fire alarm sticks out!”, because they typically go unnoticed anyways since they’re so common.

At Great Adventure (Six Flags in New Jersey) on the indoor rides I’ve been on they paint the devices to make them blend in, and it usually looks pretty bad. I saw a bunch of Wheelock MTWP (Newer Version with horizontal strobe) that were painted with brown and grey paint to make them blend into the fake-rock wall, and honestly I think it made them stand out way more. They had a few sprinklers, but I don’t remember any smokes or heat detectors.