Chris Pearson:
So what sort of natter are three or four smoke alarms going to have?
I thought that the idea was that if one detects smoke or heat, they all go off, but that may be out of date.
Some adjust their sensitivity according to changes in room temperature, they react to the rate of temperature change to reduce false alarms whilst people are cooking.
Then if you have a combined system with CO alarms you need to differentiate between alerts.
There all sorts of little upgrades to the alarms that are a few years old.
Also if they are connected to a fire suppression system it isn’t actually a good idea to interlink all of them, so in some areas you might want two systems in the same room. You don’t want the kitchen and lounge dowsed with water because someone set an alarm off in the loft bedroom, but it you are in the loft bedroom you want to know if there’s a fire in the lounge or kitchen.
Chris Pearson:
So what sort of natter are three or four smoke alarms going to have?
I thought that the idea was that if one detects smoke or heat, they all go off, but that may be out of date.
Some adjust their sensitivity according to changes in room temperature, they react to the rate of temperature change to reduce false alarms whilst people are cooking.
Then if you have a combined system with CO alarms you need to differentiate between alerts.
There all sorts of little upgrades to the alarms that are a few years old.
Also if they are connected to a fire suppression system it isn’t actually a good idea to interlink all of them, so in some areas you might want two systems in the same room. You don’t want the kitchen and lounge dowsed with water because someone set an alarm off in the loft bedroom, but it you are in the loft bedroom you want to know if there’s a fire in the lounge or kitchen.
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