Mains-powered, interlinked smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms for Midsomer Norton homes, designed to BS 5839-6 Grade D and installed in a day.
Priced per home, with a fixed quote in writing before we start.
In a family house the people most at risk are the ones asleep upstairs, often with doors closed. An alarm in the hall at the bottom of the stairs might not be heard in the back bedroom. That is why we interlink every alarm: smoke in the living room sets off the landing alarm and the one in the loft room too.
A typical Midsomer Norton semi gets a smoke alarm in the hall, one on the landing and one in the living room, a heat alarm in the kitchen, and a CO alarm where the boiler is. A three-storey house or a house with a loft conversion gets an alarm on each level.
All the alarms we fit are mains powered with a sealed back-up battery that lasts the life of the alarm, so there is no battery to change each year.
If your house has a converted loft, the rules are clear. When a loft is converted into a habitable room, Building Regulations require mains-powered smoke alarms with battery back-up, linked to alarms elsewhere in the house. Many conversions done years ago only had an alarm put in the loft room itself. If yours is not linked to the rest of the house, it is worth correcting.
Extensions that put a kitchen at the back of the house, with an open plan to the living area, change where the heat and smoke alarms should go. We look at how rooms are used now, not how the house was built.
Alarms reach the end of their life after ten years. Houses that had mains alarms fitted during a rewire or extension ten or more years ago should check the date printed on each unit.
We certify the electrical work only. We do not issue fire certificates or fire risk assessments.
Every home is priced individually. A two-bed flat, a semi with a loft conversion and a shared house need different alarms, and hardwired interlink in an existing house adds labour compared with radio interlink. We look first, by survey or from photos, then confirm a fixed price in writing.
A whole-house system is normally finished in one day.
We fit alarms in Chilcompton, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Holcombe, Coleford, Paulton, Farrington Gurney, High Littleton, Temple Cloud and Clutton. Village houses with wood burners and oil or gas boilers need CO alarms in each room with a fixed appliance.
Landlords: our Midsomer Norton landlord page covers alarms with the EICR. Businesses need a panel system: see fire alarms in Midsomer Norton.
Tell us the number of bedrooms, whether there is a loft room, and what heats the house.
Tell us the layout and we will price a Grade D system.
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