Complete household outfit

Everything in the whole-house package on plate 29, plus two thirteen-foot escape ladders for upstairs bedrooms, the wall-mounted first-aid station, the emergency 72-hour kit and the fire-resistant document bag set.

Detection on every floor and interlinked, suppression at the kitchen and the garage, first aid fixed and portable, a second way out of the upstairs rooms, and the papers protected. It is the complete argument this catalogue makes, and it is roughly $600 of equipment.

Fitting and care. This is a weekend, not an evening. Do the alarms first while you are already up a ladder, then the extinguishers, then the ladders and the kits, which need no tools. Store each escape ladder in the room it serves and deploy it once with the people who sleep there. Keep the first-aid station visible and the household kit in the kitchen. Put every dated item on one six-monthly reminder. Bolt nothing to a hollow wall — the station and the extinguisher brackets both need studs or masonry.