Rented property , certs for CO & smoke detectors ?

[roys]

Rewiring my own place just now so thought I replace the 10 year Fire Angels as I have the floorboards up just now.

 

[Sharpend]

You actually get "more" via the radio link than you do with hard wired, you can link smokes & CO, you can interrogate them for diagnostics silently via a computer and a "dongle", you can link them to other devices and more.

What can you diagnose? Surely if they’re faulty you replace them, or can you reset the unit. 

 

[Sidewinder]

Contamination levels, when last tested, if they have been removed from the base, ,measured CO levels.

Plus if you link them all, when a one sounds they all sound fire & co, I think the latest ones sound differently for each warning, so a fire alarm will make one sound for fire & another for CO and the opposite.

You can get a wiresless switch which tests all, silences all and then triggers again the head which triggered the alarm.

You can have multiple test switches too.

 

[Sharpend]

Seems a little OTT for a box standard domestic environment? 

I have fitted the switches, very good they are. 

 

[Sidewinder]

It’s aimed at social housing, there is an interface to the internet for them for remote monitoring too.

 

[Sharpend]

Interweb smoke alarms, where will it all stop! 

Mind some social housing tenants need monitoring!! 

 

[binky]

Rewiring my own place just now so thought I replace the 10 year Fire Angels as I have the floorboards up just now.

do not use fireangle battery wireless, I fitted a set of these in a block of flats - one keeps going off at night for no reason (removed it in the end), 2 out of 10 failed in under a year . They have had issues according to internet searching.  AICO every time.