Interlinked heat and smoke alarms

[Skyedriver]

Living in Scotland, by law I must now have wireless interlinked smoke and heat alarms.
While most local stockists seem to be out of stock, I'm searching the internet and there are so many different makes all with good and bad reviews and none of them have names I recognise (with the exception of Kidde).
Can any one recommend me a package of 4 smoke alarms, 1 heat alarm, all battery powered and wireless interlinked please.
Are Hispec, Anka, etc any good?
Thanks in advance

[Skyedriver]

Thanks
Yes interlinked, is that not wireless?
We have some hardwired alarms although not enough to satisfy the Scottish Regs and not interlinked. Was just going to "double up" and stick battery ones adjacent and add the extra ones where eneeded. Ugly and untidy but wiring up additional ones is going to require too much disruption.

Edited by Skyedriver on Thursday 3rd February 08:51

[Skyedriver]

Scrump said:

Quite a long thread on this in the Scotland section:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Yes I had read that a while ago and just revisited however most contributions to that thread are of the " they can knob off" etc and "not going to do it" along with "insurance companies say they aren't concerned".
Unfortunately my wife is convinced the house is now going to burst into flames at any second if we don't have the new system despite us having existing alarms installed which are loud enough to wake the dead. (We don't have open fires, gas, don't smoke etc., nearest I've had to a fire is hot oil in a pan and an under bonnet petrol fire on the drive outside)..

[Skyedriver]

LocoBlade said:

Interlinked doesn't have to we wireless, most mains powered alarms can be interlinked with twin and earth wiring which will be more reliable than wireless. The units are cheaper but if you've got to pay a sparky a days labour to wire them all in then wireless will be cheaper.

When I looked into it 6 months ago for our house renovation Aico seemed to be the most universally recommended for reliability.

Yes seen a few good reviews for Aico, not the cheapest but the last thing you want is an alarm going off all the time with false alarms.

[Skyedriver]

matchmaker said:

I fitted Hispec. Seem okay. Wireless. 3 smoke + 1 heat came to just under £100.

Thanks Hispec keep popping up on FB, must have looked at them before, seem cheap.