fire alarms?

[mas99]

Our house is two storey with a loft conversion on top making three storeys. So far all we've had is individual fire alarms stuck to a couple of ceilings (one of which has the battery disconnected because the OH keeps burning stuff when cooking).

I'm thinking that a linked system would probably be a sensible upgrade.

Anyone care to recommend a brand or system? Or should I just ask the fire brigade to pop round and advise?

[mickk]

Fire Brigade will give you free advice, but go to any diy shop and get 230v ones with battery back up.

Link the detectors with 3-core cable so that when one activates it sounds all the detectors.

If that dont make sense, do not fear they all come with instructions

[mas99]

Thanks,

I was thinking mains linked with battery back up, but I seem to remember reading somewhere that if you do that then the wiring regs require that you have a seperate circuit for the fire alarms - which would mean a new consumer unit because ours is full.

I'll talk to the fire people and see what they say.

[mickk]

Yes, sorry should have said all fire alarms on own circuit

[Driller]

Do you have an intruder alarm? You can link the fire alarms to your intruder system so that if onegoes off it sends you a text or email.