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Installing a Fire Escape

Steve Forman from Redi-Exit joins Bob to talk about the extruded-aluminum escape ladder from Redi-Exit that is installed at the Rowley home. Forman stresses that secondary exits from bedrooms would greatly reduce fire deaths in this country. Smoke detectors can alert the residents, but only a means of escape can save them. For around $1100 this latching, fully mounted ladder can carry up to 800 pounds in case of emergency.
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Installing a Fire Escape

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" Okay the first thing we're tackling today is fire escapes and Steve Foreman as -- this from -- thank -- Now who's idea was this this this well -- going to have the original idea was to Thomas Jefferson and he -- course. Had one just like this and word yet on wanna sell. Great -- original patent the I have seen though the library -- which is kind of a tubular stainless south pole witness looks like this -- just doesn't turns into a latter and -- spyware is now this is made of aluminum it's extruded aluminum and what's not a -- made of stainless steel and we can and it's polyester. Including pointed OK so it's designed to little uniform across for years it's very -- to come it's extremely durable does not require any real maintenance and now off each one has to be kind of custom ordered right no. -- The way we have designed this is they are they culminate with typically put three inch sections IC. And everything's pre drilled such as the putting these. Brackets on Ansa wire we're -- this extension because we've made it so that we can ship it by either UPS or FedEx case anywhere in the United States it -- a homeowner could come on -- site if there -- interest in doing that in order want to temperature particular room okay. About how important is it to have something like this well the United States is one of the highest -- reached to that you residential fires and industrialized world it was a way surprising. I think it's. The structures that we build and in many European countries they require a second way out. And we built home -- United States we are not requiring having two ways to -- secondary means of -- so there are required in apartment buildings -- exact say but it -- in especially so many old wooden houses that we have. All of those two -- three stories. You always heard about people keeping a rope ladder or something like that but I guess this is become acute problem in terms of we have smoke detectors but by the time the smoke detector goes off. In my view today well it's actually we shall we have. We -- we lose ten to twelve. People every day future residential fires and have to lose deaths occur. Overnight between the hours of -- and 6 in the morning. Because people get trapped in the bedroom then what happens in today's. -- here world the interiors are made out of or switch to synthetic fibers. And when they burn and the fumes are extremely Knox is not some by the time you were. Smoke alarms going off and you -- out of -- sleep that means or smoke -- your always. And you think about how many of the new homes are built with very high entrance areas two story entrance areas which allowed to smoke to immediately get to the section floors. People find themselves. Trapped in a way out or yet so Tim you've got almost ready just about. It. OK so are mounting brackets. Are these dealer they're aluminum. They're also objects -- is that sturdy enough yes. -- Tempered -- mafia and all of whom it's being used to say yeah letter grade -- Okay and if there was stance over 600 freaks and how do you keep water from infiltrating. Into these world -- so -- caulk behind the yeah. So Tim your pre drill at all. Yeah in this is a 38 bit perhaps intellectually. Structural wood yes. OK so then just add a little bit of car and then lag exactly so then you work sealed up real good so you don't -- Each -- it."

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" All right so. Three brackets in your Dennis -- closes up. Should -- from the well that was my next question enemy don't have to worry about this as an invitation to second story tells it like just up there and there is not real good way. Two on latch -- and what about weight that holds up to 800 pounds. To pretty sturdy thanked. Well I can see how it makes a lot of sense. What's it gonna cost. It's about 1100 dollars. They were -- story. Some miracle many of our people -- installing -- for the kind of -- varies around the country yes it depends on what laboring around the country great idea thank you state thank you Bob."

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