Smoke detector deals for houses in Scotland

arealhighlander

The law changes next year in Scotland where all residential properties must have an interlinked smoke detector system. This can be wired or wireless and the detectors can be either mains powered or powered by a battery that will last the life of the detector (basically the 10 year lithium batteries)

Already seeing scare posts from companies wanting to charge people to install these at extortionate prices, its rather like the Portable Appliance testing that they tried to say everyone must do every year (you don't).

I've already seen detector prices vastly increase and shortages of available ones. Thinking this may be a good thread for Moneysavers to post deals that they have seen. It is so easy to install wireless, 10 year battery detectors, as long as you can screw it to a ceiling. 

Ill start with this one
https://fireguardplus.co.uk/bundle?fbclid=IwAR32W3O5RJRK6Ao1S-8J7vWZhE4qGS99F7FJ3wNlDdUm-rUKtEdBwrfSBOs

neilmcl

You can get the Fireangel Pro Connected ones for less than £50 per unit.

BUFF

neilmcl said:

You can get the Fireangel Pro Connected ones for less than £50 per unit.

If you watch Amazon they often drop to ~£35.

p.s. you don't even have to be able to screw detectors to the ceiling - you can use suitable strength  "hook and loop" tape on ceiling/detector.

Gers

I've pre-ordered a Fire Hawk W series bundle for for £109.00 - two smoke alarms and one heat alarm with sticky pads, no remote control!

neilmcl

BUFF said:

neilmcl said:

You can get the Fireangel Pro Connected ones for less than £50 per unit.

If you watch Amazon they often drop to ~£35.

p.s. you don't even have to be able to screw detectors to the ceiling - you can use suitable strength  "hook and loop" tape on ceiling/detector.

All mine are stuck on the ceilings using those command strips.

Scottiealarm

Who are Fireguardplus? I cannot find their location or telephone number. Are they a genuine company?

cannugec5

I’ve been looking at this and am a little unclear. 

We have our (oil) boiler in the garage, which  can be accessed from the utility room and is underneath a bedroom. 

Do we need to treat the garage as a ‘room’ and have both heat and CO alarms to be compliant, or as it is a big airy space with lots of draughts  round the ill fitting doors can we discount it? 

We have bottled gas and electricity in the kitchen, so I know we will need both heat and CO in there, and I’ll be getting the smoke alarms to replace existing ones in living areas, upstairs and down. 

I want us to be safe, but I don’t want to throw money away if alarms in the garage would be superfluous. 

Ebe_Scrooge

Sounds like you're in a very similar situation to me - oil boiler in the garage, same layout.  I will admit I don't know the official stance on this one - but me personally, I ain't going to bother with a CO alarm in the garage.  It seems totally superfluous to me - like you say, the garage isn't sealed, it's certainly not a habitable space, and there's a fire door between the garage and the utility room.  I really can't see how any significant amount of CO could leak from the garage into the house.

The one that bugs me is the requirement to have a smoke alarm in the lounge.  Our house was built with 3 interlinked, mains-powered alarms in the first place - one in the hallway, two in the landing upstairs.  If I'm sat in the lounge and a fire starts, I think I'd know about it.  If I'm in bed and a fire starts in the lounge, the existing alarms will go off as we always leave the lounge door open anyway (so the cat can snuggle on her favourite sofa :-) ).  But to comply with the new rules, looks like I'm going to have to - hopefully - find a new alarms for the lounge that can link into the 3 existing ones.  Either that, or replace the whole bloody lot :-(

cannugec5

Ebe_Scrooge said:

Sounds like you're in a very similar situation to me - oil boiler in the garage, same layout.  I will admit I don't know the official stance on this one - but me personally, I ain't going to bother with a CO alarm in the garage.  It seems totally superfluous to me - like you say, the garage isn't sealed, it's certainly not a habitable space, and there's a fire door between the garage and the utility room.  I really can't see how any significant amount of CO could leak from the garage into the house.

The one that bugs me is the requirement to have a smoke alarm in the lounge.  Our house was built with 3 interlinked, mains-powered alarms in the first place - one in the hallway, two in the landing upstairs.  If I'm sat in the lounge and a fire starts, I think I'd know about it.  If I'm in bed and a fire starts in the lounge, the existing alarms will go off as we always leave the lounge door open anyway (so the cat can snuggle on her favourite sofa :-) ).  But to comply with the new rules, looks like I'm going to have to - hopefully - find a new alarms for the lounge that can link into the 3 existing ones.  Either that, or replace the whole bloody lot :-(

Yes, we have existing hard wired alarms. However they will not easily link with new additional alarms and would require an electrician, so they will be defunct. The radio linked battery operated disposable alarms seem to be the way forward and I think that we can manage to do that ourselves. 

We are not impressed with having one in the lounge either - we are not in a mansion where the lounge is in the West Wing away from the hallway lol! 

I’m glad you are of the same opinion as me regarding the garage. I must admit I had forgotten the utility room door is a fire door. 

…and of course we don’t know how long these rules will exist before they are changed again…