Hispec Smoke/Heat Detectors

[Peter Burke]

Poss one for Adam . . .

I'm helping my sister equip her house in Scotland to meet the new incoming smoke detector regs/law there (and yes it is retrospective).

A rambling layout leads to needing needing 7 smoke, 1 heat plus 1 test/locate/cancel controller.

RF linking favourite to avoid tearing the house apart and the newly upgraded Hispec RF10-PRO range fits the spec (tamperproof 10yr batt, RF interlinked) and budget nicely but never heard of them before so would welcome any views on their quality and longevity. Plenty of availability, mainly from trade outlets but I expect that to suffer as people scramble to meet the new legislation.

I had looked at a FireAngel setup but then found that for the same money as Hispec you would get an 'RF ready' detector that you would then need to pay another 30quid each to add an RF module making it not cost effective.

Kidde, Honeywell etc RF ranges all overpriced.

[SH]

have you looked at Aico?

[ARW]

All I can add at the moment is I only fit Aico.

And I go on holiday tomorrow for a week (minus the two days I will be at work).

The HiSpec meets the regs so is fine to use.

[Peter Burke]

[Peter Burke]

[Owain Lastname]

Do you need all the detectors to be wireless? AIUI you can have eg two 'sections' of AICO wired detectors, with one wireless on each 'section', and the interlink will wirelessly hop across the two sections.

So if you can do wired in the east wing and wired in the west wing, but need wireless to get across the great hall :-) that might work.

Owain

[newman]

Worth a look at

which I am considering as they are cheaper than Aico.

Regards

[Peter Burke]

Owain Lastname [e-mail] wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I live quite far away so it would be nice to just turn up and fit so full RF is favoured. Upstairs is easy but it would still involve a lot of board lifting to do the lower floor areas.

Not a 'pile' just a rambling conversion of smaller buildings combined with some inflexibility in the regs that mean a stairwell with a tiny bit of ceiling on the ground floor will need 2 detectors, 1 for the tiny "ground floor circulating space" and 1 for the equally tiny upstairs landing. Unless I commission a report from a pro to say it's not required.

[Peter Burke]