Heat detectors...

Robbo · Jan 27, 2009

Just a quickee.

On the plans of a house im first fixing there is a heat detector to be installed in the kitchen.

Can this be installed on the same circuit as the 2 mains powered smoke alarms at the property is the traditional manner using 3 core cable interlinking them all?

Is there a maximum/minimum distance they should be from the cooker/appliances etc? Or does it vary from different manufacturers?

Ta very much.

GreekIslandLover · Jan 27, 2009

Read the destructions re where it can be sited, but yes, I think you should be interconnectiong them so that when dozy trollop in the kitchen sets fire to the chip pan, sleeping teenagers get some warning by an alarm, going off outside their bedroom. Seems no sense in NOT interconnecting them to me.

sparky999 · Jan 27, 2009

Yeah interconnect them robbo using ur 3 core.

NozSpark · Jan 27, 2009

It is best to read the manufacturers instructions about specific siteing of the alarms, but yes connect as you would a smoke

Aico -Which Alarms to Fit Where?

batty · Jan 28, 2009

Robbo

Don't put it to near to where oven opens it will go off even a heat.

Batty

bryn · Jan 28, 2009

Robbo

hope this helps extract from B1

1.11 Smoke alarms should normally be positioned in the circulation spaces between sleeping spaces and places where fires are most likely to start (eg kitchens and living rooms) .................

1.12 In a house (including bungalows) there should be at least one smoke alarm on every storey.

1.13 Where more than one smoke alarm is installed they should be linked ..............

1.14 Smoke alarms should be sited so that:

a. there is a smoke alarm in the circulation space within 7.5m of the door to every habitable room;

b. where the kitchen area is not separated from the stairway or circulation space by a door, there should be a compatible interlinked heat detector in the kitchen, in addition to whatever smoke alarms are needed in the circulation space(s) ;

c. they are ceiling mounted and at least 300mm from walls and light fittings (unless ..........

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..........Units designed for wall mounting may also be used provided that ................

1.15 It should be possible to reach the smoke alarms to carry out routine maintenance, ..........

1.16 Smoke alarms should not be fixed next to or directly above heaters or air conditioning outlets.

Bryn