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smoke & heat detectors interlinked with co detector neccesarry?

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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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0 Chris Pearson over 5 years ago

AJJewsbury:

I guess the question is: can CO spread beyond the room with the CO detector into other rooms (especially bedrooms)? If so, I can see the benefit of units that are adjacent to those rooms sounding as well.

Why not, especially if doors are left open, but in that case, surely a sleeping occupier would hear the alarm.

The consensus seems to be don't interlink, but that begs the question "why do the alarms have the facility for interlinking?"
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0 Chris Pearson over 5 years ago

AJJewsbury:

I guess the question is: can CO spread beyond the room with the CO detector into other rooms (especially bedrooms)? If so, I can see the benefit of units that are adjacent to those rooms sounding as well.

Why not, especially if doors are left open, but in that case, surely a sleeping occupier would hear the alarm.

The consensus seems to be don't interlink, but that begs the question "why do the alarms have the facility for interlinking?"
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