Tonight our ionization smoke alarm went off in my son's room with the humidifier going - it's a standard Vicks humidifier containing menthol fluid.
Is the smoke alarm malfunctioning, or do we need to look at replacing the Vicks humidifier?
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I would not use an ionization smoke detector anywhere. They can only pick up an open fire (most fires start as a smoldering fire, which the ionization smoke alarm will happily ignore).
For your safety choose a photo electric, it will alarm for open fires and smoldering fires, and will give you less false alarms than an ionization smoke alarm.
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