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can anyone correct me if I’m wrong. If it’s a rented accommodation do the smoke detectors/monoxide need to be hard wired in relation to EICRs as I’ve just had a lanlawd tell me to stop talking sh@t
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OH Lawd very drollLanlawd.... Failed English in school did we?
I do a lot of work for a local letting agency, frankly it's the last place I'd ask. I'd be surprised if any of them have any sort of an idea about what should be installed and what products are available.AFAIK, the regulations for fire detection in rented accommodation can be either 230v or 10 year lithium battery powered ( battery cannot be removed)
The only stipulation is that they are interlinked. Hard wired or via radio link.
Best place to ask would be a local letting agency.
Rental properties in Scotland require mains-operated, interlinked smoke and heat alarms.
Are you sure, JK? I thought, as long as they were interlinked, it could be mains or lithium battery?
Has there not been an update to that publication since 2007?
Just my tuppence worth, but as I have said before, the Scottish government recently had an open discussion document and have accepted that hard-wiring is no longer necessary, as advances in technology have shown that Li-ion 10 year battery units., with radio modules will be fine. This is good news because the lack of disruption to decoration will be minimised, so the labour will be too, so the final cost will be lower, so more landlords will be prepared to do the work, so tenants will be safer. I have installed to these parameters for a couple of years, but...it is NOT law yet, still has to be ratified, but it will be...some LAs accept it as being part D, some however do not yet. Having read the report, yes you will be falling foul of the current legislation if you instal wireless modules on 10 year Li-ion, but by the end of 2018 I expect this will be the new standard. I may be out of date as I have not checked this today.
Frankly, the sound produced by, for example, Aico alarms, would wake the dead in Carlisle from anywhere in Scotland, and as most rented properties require an alarm in the hall, living room and kitchen, you are never more than 20 feet away from one, and as any one of them will set off the others, you would have to be dead not to hear one...
I know...laws are one thing, practicalities another, but installing to the new standards will be easier all round...and preclude the extra sticker on the CU that says "DO NOT MEGGER"...
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