Smoke / Heat Alarms, Seeking Recommendations

[pirate]

and you get a hard copy of the book and a van sticker!

 

[Lister1987]

and you get a hard copy of the book and a van sticker!

Don't forget the pen with a tiny flathead at yhr other end to help get the alarms off bases

 

[Pegasus]

Don't forget the pen with a tiny flathead at yhr other end to help get the alarms off bases

hahah now that's a pen worth having, I have ordered their product range brochure and anything else I can get for free from their website

 

[nicebutdim]

and you get a hard copy of the book and a van sticker!

I didn't get a van sticker, but they did give me a travel mug.

 

[pirate]

Oh yes, the pen! I got that too...but not the mug.

No mug...but smug, because I now have some spare smokes and heats which finally arrived last week!

 

[Vortigern]

Alarms usually have an intumescent fire seal where it attaches to the ceiling. Sticky pads onto that material may not be a good fix so personally I would avoid sticky pads. As to learing about fire alarms there is a massive amount of information out there on design etc. There are different categories as well, you could profit from learning about them. This in turn means getting access to the BS standards governing same. That is a very expensive route to learning given that come out at about £200 each. The other way to approach it is to get the older books like BS5839 1 and 6 looking at them then researching updates to those regulations. However, it will give you a very good idea of how to place fire alarms etc. There are situations where you get a beam running down the middle of the ceiling projecting into the room. What do you do in that situation? You sometimes get the same in domestic on the stairs, so the usual landing smoke alarm at the top of the stairs may not work. You have to have BS5839 1 and 6 as they inter-reference each other. If you are a member of NAPIT you can buy access to the standards for £90 per year.
Often the spec. for fire alarms are influenced by the designer/architect or the local building control who will specify the standard required in give premises. It may be worth finding out what your local BC has to say about the matter.