Smoke alarms, approx fitting costs

[ARW]

No. Looks they are not.

[ARW]

Why not? It attracts attention to what they are doing and gets the job done.

[ARW]

For the last couple of weeks I have been fitting a lot of mains powered (some RF and some cable interlinked smokes/heats COs but always mains powered with battery back up) for the government. Houses that have been bought to demolish ready for HS2. These houses will be rented out until the bulldozers arrive.

I have no idea who is running this but the spec changes on every job!

[Michael Chare]

No electric tumble drier or fridge then?

What I wonder is which room this would be:

"at least one smoke alarm installed in the room most frequently used for general daytime living purposes,"

[Scott]

As I mentioned elsewhere, according to the Metro enforcement will be at time of sale. The property won't get a Home Report unless it complies.

[ARW]

I call it the lounge. Southerners call it a living room.

Or for most people it's the room with the TV and SKY box in it.

[Vir Campestris]

Why does that require interlinking? (It does require one in her room)

Andy

[ARW]

Was it Keith Laird?

[alan_m]

Can a home report legally prevent a sale?

[Bob Eager]

Not true in our house, which is why I went for interlinked ones. The house is large and is an odd shape. It's also why we have a lot of internal phones.

[Max Demian]

Little kids may not wake to the sound of an alarm, however loud.

[Mark]

A foretaste of the next Health and Safety loving Labour government south of the border

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[spuorgelgoog]

Absence of it will.

A home report must be provided by law for a residential property to be adve rtised for sale in Scotland (with a few exceptions). Solicitors and estate agents wouldn't handle a property without it if it's required as they'd be liable for the fine:

The Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (Amount of Penalty Charge) Regulations 2007 The person responsible for marketing a house must have a Home Report and m ust give a copy to any potential buyer who asks for it. Anyone who does not do this may get a penalty charge notice from an authorised officer of a lo cal authority. In cases like this, the regulations prescribe a penalty char ge of £500.

Owain

[spuorgelgoog]

In 2016 SNP got 46.5% of the constituency vote.

Ruth Davidson's on Celebrity Bake Off tonight so we'll see if her scones rise more than her share of the vote (or if she sets off the smoke alarm in the Tent).

Owain

[alan_m]

So a home report saying that the property has no roof, the gas boiler is dangerous, there is no mains drainage, the water from the well is polluted would be issued to tell a prospective buyer that the property is in need of serious modernisation but if no smoke alarms are fitted to the same property the home report will not be issued and therefore cannot be sold - until smoke alarms are fitted?

Isn't the report a (legally binding) document on the existing condition of the building, including deficiencies, which the buyer can make a decision on whether to buy or not? Policing of the smoke alarm policy by not issuing a home report on non-compliance seems to be over the top.

[Michael Chare]

Does someone not quite often go into the kitchen? It appears to be the frequency of use that counts.

[whisky-dave]

Surely it's the way she pronouces 'scones' is the most important point, then it's whther she adds jam or cream first ;-0

Who'd vote for some one that clouldn't get the basics right :-D

[Tim Watts]

Morning Room, if you please. Living rooms are what the plebs relax in...

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[Tim Watts]

In England, I thought it was a requirement to market the house, rather than sell it.

So if your mate said "can I buy your house", you can legally sidestep it.

[Tim Watts]

Because if there's a fire from the TV upstairs, I damn well want to know about it before the whole house is on fire!

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