Interlinked smoke, heat and carbon monoxide alarms for Radstock homes and rented property. When one sounds, they all sound, so a fire in the kitchen wakes the people asleep upstairs.
Each home quoted individually, at a fixed price in writing.
A single battery alarm on the landing is better than nothing, but it only sounds where it is. In a terraced house with the kitchen at the back and bedrooms over the front, a fire downstairs can be well developed before that one alarm hears it. Interlinked alarms solve that: every alarm in the house sounds as soon as one detects smoke, heat or carbon monoxide.
We fit to BS 5839-6 Grade D: mains-powered alarms with a sealed back-up battery, linked together. Smoke alarms go in the hall, on each landing and in the main living room. The kitchen gets a heat alarm, because a smoke alarm there would go off every time you make toast. Any room with a boiler, gas fire or wood burner gets a CO alarm.
In Radstock terraces with solid walls and boarded floors we usually use radio interlink between the alarms. Each alarm still needs a permanent mains feed, but there is no need for a cable between every alarm, which means far less disruption to floors and plaster.
A typical Radstock terrace has a straight staircase, two rooms down and two or three up, often with a single-storey kitchen extension at the back. That layout needs a smoke alarm in the hall at the foot of the stairs, one on the landing, one in the front room, and a heat alarm in the kitchen. If there is a loft room or a cellar used as living space, those need covering too.
Older houses in the town may have a gas fire in the front room or a solid-fuel stove fitted into an old fireplace. Each of those rooms needs a CO alarm, and so does the room with the boiler. We note the appliances on the survey so nothing gets missed.
Alarms have a ten-year life, printed on the unit. If yours were fitted when a house was last rewired and that was more than ten years ago, they are due for replacement even if the test button still makes them beep.
We certify the electrical work. We do not issue fire risk assessments or fire safety certificates.
No two homes need exactly the same alarms, so we don't publish a price list. The price depends on the number of rooms and storeys, which alarms are needed and whether the interlink is radio or hardwired, as hardwired interlink in an existing house adds labour for the cable runs. We survey or look at your photos first, then give you a fixed written quote.
Most homes are done in a single visit.
We fit alarms in Writhlington, Clandown, Haydon, Westfield and Kilmersdon, and in Peasedown St John, Camerton, Dunkerton, Wellow and Timsbury. Cottages in those villages often have open staircases or rooms opening off each other, and the layout is planned around that.
Landlords should also see our landlord compliance page for Radstock, which combines alarms with the five-yearly EICR. Commercial premises need a panel system: see fire alarms in Radstock.
Tell us how many bedrooms and whether you have a gas boiler, gas fire or wood burner. We will come back with a price.
Tell us the number of bedrooms and the appliances in the house and we will give you a price.
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