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smoke & heat detectors interlinked with co detector neccesarry?

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Hi Guys 

My customer recently recieved a letter from St Andrews university regarding her property (a 2 bedroom ground floor flat) which is used for student accopmodation. My understamding is that a smoke detector in the hallway interlinked with a heat detector in the kitchen along with a standalone co detector would comply with current legislation ,however the letter stated "all alarms should be interlinked" .  I don't think the co detector needs to be interlinked  to the smokes . Look forward to hearing any of your opinions regarding this. thanks

p.s.  portion of letter attached
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    That’s not going to happen in a house full of students who don’t know their a**e from their elbow.


    One of my lady customers said her eighteen year old son had told her that he thought the house landline phone was not working, she asked him if there was a dialling tone and he asked what’s that? These masterminds would not understand your differing alarm signals.


    I phoned Aico several years ago and asked if they had a copy of their alarm instructions in Portuguese, when asked why I explained I wanted them for a HMO which was occupied by eleven Portuguese people (and a Portuguese dog) none of whom understood the difference between smoke and heat alarms or how the system works. After a few hours I got a call to say they could not provide instructions in Portuguese and I ended up trying to write very simple and precise instructions in English then laminating several copies to put up on notice boards within the HMO.


    If what the tenants think is a fire alarm system is sounding when there is obviously not a fire they are likely to try and disable the alarm system, not realising that there is actually a major risk due to CO poisoning that is setting off the CO alarm.


     Andy Betteridge 

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    That’s not going to happen in a house full of students who don’t know their a**e from their elbow.


    One of my lady customers said her eighteen year old son had told her that he thought the house landline phone was not working, she asked him if there was a dialling tone and he asked what’s that? These masterminds would not understand your differing alarm signals.


    I phoned Aico several years ago and asked if they had a copy of their alarm instructions in Portuguese, when asked why I explained I wanted them for a HMO which was occupied by eleven Portuguese people (and a Portuguese dog) none of whom understood the difference between smoke and heat alarms or how the system works. After a few hours I got a call to say they could not provide instructions in Portuguese and I ended up trying to write very simple and precise instructions in English then laminating several copies to put up on notice boards within the HMO.


    If what the tenants think is a fire alarm system is sounding when there is obviously not a fire they are likely to try and disable the alarm system, not realising that there is actually a major risk due to CO poisoning that is setting off the CO alarm.


     Andy Betteridge 

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