Smoke Alarms

Please can you advise me on whether or not by law or for insurance purposes, I need to install a certain type of fire alarm in certain positions in a recently purchased house which has been recently changed with some rewiring. I am wanting to install alarms upstairs and downstairs and in the garage. Thank you.

Hello, we have been asked to replace smoke alarms in the communal corridors of apartment buildings. The current ones fitted are ionisation alarms, is this still considered the most suitable for this type of area. Thank you

With the recent worries about tumble drier safety, we would like to put a smoke alarm in our utility room. The room is quite small and has one ordinary door to the kitchen (always kept closed) and one fire door to the garage (of course also always kept closed). There is no window, but there is an fan, which automatically comes on when you enter the room. There is a washing machine and a tumble drier in the room. The tumble drier is a condenser drier and due to the small size of the room, the room gets very warm when the drier runs. The house was built about 3 years ago. What would be the best type of smoke alarm to use in this type of room? Thanks very much …

Replaced heads of my two Ei141RC alarms because they are 10 years old. Green light is on but there is no red light flashing. They both sound the alarm when tested with mains on and with mains off. Should I be worried about the lack of flashing red light?

Hi, Live in a new build house 7yrs old, with 3 mains wired inter-connected smoke alarms, one per floor. Top one has started chirping about every 30 seconds. Continues to chirp when disconnected and battery taken out! Replacement date isn't for another year - has it just worn out early? Also it only seems to chirp in cold weather I.e. this time of year at night! Heating being on / hairdryer / vacuum treatment seems to fix it temporarily. It isn't battery as replacing this has no effect. Manufactured by Garvan from Hong Kong, have bought a new FireX mains powered inter-connected one but unsure if it'll talk to the other two Garvan ones and also needs electrician t…

In a cafe that serves hot food, do I need a smoke alarm or heat alarm?

As the clocks have just changed, why not change the battery in your smoke alarm now...........or you could wait until it starts to beep at an annoying time of the morning. Even some mains operated smoke alarms have a back up battery that will also need changing. Safelincs do supply batteries for smoke alarms Click here If you have an an Ei xxx smoke alarm or a Kidde mains smoke alarm and you are not sure how to change the battery, you can see the videos of how to change the battery if you Click here

I am my mums full time carer and need to know if there is an alarm system that can be set up to monitor and in turn advise me of any issues on the odd occasion when im not here please advise

I have 3 Kidde mains smoke alarms in my three floor house. The ground floor won't stop chirping even though the battery is more than 90 per cent full. It is a single chirp every 30 secs or so. They are model No. 123/9HI and are about 10 years old. What can I do to stop this?

I was wondering if you have any idea's on the following. My son who has a severe hearing loss has recently moved into new digs (block of flats), the integral fire alarm system is only up to 65dbs, the deafguard that has served him well up till now reacts at anything over 75db, so not much help here. Do you know if anything is out there that will vibrate/flash etc at 65db. When the flat fire alarm goes off. I have looked but not found much yet

If my roof is not flat but is made up of 8 or so voids as part of a glass house roof, do I need extra detectors. and if I have a separate stores building with detectors does this have to be joined to the main building system!

Hi, We are removing a wall between our kitchen and hall in a domestic property, the property is over three floors. Building control have told us to consider a fire curtain and to conform to the BStandard part 6. I have a company to fit the curtain with a heat sensor in the kitchen, it is a period property and would be tricky/unsightly to wire in smoke detectors to the first and second floor landings. Would it be accepted to use wireless detectors in this situatioN. H.

How often should the heart sensors in our mains powered fire alarm (domestic) be changed

Hello, I followed all the instructions to remove the fire alarm. However, even though I turned off the power source, the red light keeps flashing every minute, and the alarm keeps beeping a few times. Is everything all right as long as the green light is off, or should I do something else? Thank you!

I live in sheltered housing ,could you tell me who has the authority to test all the heat and smoke alarms please

Hi. I'd like to fit a fire alarm in our untreated loft at home (domestic property). Please can you recommend what type of alarm would be suitable? Ie. should I fit a smoke alarm or a heat alarm? Thanks for your help. Paul

We have 9 mains linked smoke alarms and 1 mains linked heat detector. I have replaced the battery on one of them which was 'wheeping'. Do I need to test each one separately or is pressing the button on one adequate? The combined noise is unbearable and doing it 10 times may cause a neighbour dispute!!

I havent slept in a week and I dont see anything on here about alarms screeching every ten minutes from 1am every night. Started a week ago. I have removed unit from base and removed battery but still it continues

I am disabled and have a smoke alarm upstairs which sounds when a meal is being cooked - not burnt!- having had to struggle upstairs every 5 minutes recently to shut it up I have taken the batteries out. I am not happy with this but feel I am more likely to die from heart failure from trying to shut it up than actually getting caught in fire. Do you have any advice, perhaps remote control alarms?

Assuming that pressing the button on most detectors is a battery test. How are mains wired detectors tested?

Hi I have on of your Kidde Firex Mains Powered Smoke Alarms with Lithium Battery Back-up Product Code: KE4892 Version: Heat Alarm It has started today beeping every 15 seconds. Could you advise what I need to do please. The green light is on Thanks Sadhana

Hello We have to buy 10 smoke alarms for our house as we are doing a loft conversion because we foster and everywhere has to have one! The prices range a great deal and I really don't have any idea what I shouldn't be buying. Obviously want to keep the cost down, but also want to know that they will work! Thanks for any help

I have a heat alarm in my kitchen and I have been wondering how I can test the actual sensor of the alarm, the alarm has a test button but i understand this will only test the alarms circuits and sounder. Is there a way I can test the actual sensing part of the alarm to make sure it is working?

We have recently bought Ei smoke alarms but we are not sure how to put them up as my husband says that they can't go anywhere on the ceiling but have to be attached to the rafters. As we don't know where the refters are we have seven smoke alarms sitting in a box as we are afraid to drill holes in ceiling. Can you use No More Nails? Thank you for any advice you can offer.

Hi all, I am a high school engineering student and am working on the downfalls of smoke alarms in hopes of developing a final project by the end of the year. Would you all mind taking my survey? Here is the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XGHSJRKthank you all so much! :)