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smoke & heat detectors interlinked with co detector neccesarry?

sizzler
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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    No, dont interlink CO and smoke/heat.

    As stated above, you will not know which one has sounded first.

    I've got 19000 houses at work, we had one recently where the fire brigade and Centrica/Gas supplier had to attend to a faulty alarm.

    As above, the tenants have no common sense. A smoke detector was faulty. It was full alarming randomly for a few minutes at a time, and all the alarms were going off. 

    When they were installed, the fitter had wrongly connected the link from the CO to the smokes. This is social housing, so you will not get a gadget telling you which one sounded first.

    The tenant was worried, so called the fire brigade to see if something was smouldering.

    They didnt find anything, so called the gas board as they suspected the CO alarm was causing the problem, through detecting CO in the air from a faulty appliance. BG didnt bother inspecting, they just turned the gas off and told the tenant to get all of their appliances tested.So no hot water/heating for 2 days.

    As you can imagine, this caused an awful lot of paperwork.

    And all becuase the CO was linked to the smokes.
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    No, dont interlink CO and smoke/heat.

    As stated above, you will not know which one has sounded first.

    I've got 19000 houses at work, we had one recently where the fire brigade and Centrica/Gas supplier had to attend to a faulty alarm.

    As above, the tenants have no common sense. A smoke detector was faulty. It was full alarming randomly for a few minutes at a time, and all the alarms were going off. 

    When they were installed, the fitter had wrongly connected the link from the CO to the smokes. This is social housing, so you will not get a gadget telling you which one sounded first.

    The tenant was worried, so called the fire brigade to see if something was smouldering.

    They didnt find anything, so called the gas board as they suspected the CO alarm was causing the problem, through detecting CO in the air from a faulty appliance. BG didnt bother inspecting, they just turned the gas off and told the tenant to get all of their appliances tested.So no hot water/heating for 2 days.

    As you can imagine, this caused an awful lot of paperwork.

    And all becuase the CO was linked to the smokes.
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