Different areas of your home require different alarms, and smoke alarms alone are not enough to keep your home safe and avoid accidents to happen. For instance, your kitchen requires a heat alarm instead of a smoke alarm, and your attic requires a smoke alarm, while your bathroom doesn't require any. Read the below information to discover what areas should be covered and how many alarms are required. Hallways and Landings Without any question, linked smoke detectors are the best smoke detectors to have in your house. Linked smoke detectors save lives because they work in tandem with each other – when one alarm goes off, they all go off together, potentially alerting you sooner, giving you extra time to put your fire escape plan into action.

So, how will these alarms benefit in short and long-term? Risks Of Installing Wire-Free Smoke Alarms Ionisation alarms ionise the air between two electrodes. These are positively and negatively charged, creating a small current inside the chamber. Heat (thermal) alarms detect heat (hot air) instead of smoke. The alarm is triggered when the temperature within the sensor chamber reaches over 58 degrees Celsius – generally when a fire is well established. PLEASE NOTE: Make sure there is only one wireless connection into each wired network. For example if you have a hardwired network upstairs and a wireless network downstairs only one of the hardwired products should be linked into the wireless network, connecting both systems. Make no mistake about it, the Heiman interlinked smoke alarms are just as good as the first placed X-Sense offering.Easy to install yourself, all you need is a drill, stepladder and 2 minutes of your time per detector. You can put them in kitchens and garages because they’re not prone to false alarms from cooking or exhaust fumes. But they are slower to respond than smoke alarms. As wireless alarms are more expensive, it is easier to justify the additional cost when retro-fitting smoke alarms as this is where surface trunking is often used. Additional alarms should be ‘learned-in’ in the same way. When ‘learning-in’ additional alarms, any alarm already in the network, can be used as ‘Alarm 1’. You do not have to ‘learn-in’ to every alarm in the network.

FireAngel Smart RF smoke alarms (including the FireAngel Specification range) use Multi-Sensor technology, the trusted technology fitted by UK Fire & Rescue Services since 2007. To find out more about our technologies and products available, please see the FireAngel product guide. Hardwired and wireless interconnected smoke alarms If a smoke detector detects smoke in the living room, and you have a linked smoke detector in your bedroom, then on detecting smoke, the smoke detector in the living room will also set off the smoke detector in your bedroom. And it’s in third place only because this offering won’t suit everyone, and will exceed most people’s budget for linked smoke detectors.

Multi-Sensor Smoke Detectors

Including a CO detector into the network is simple, let Wes show you how – or follow the below instructions. To interlink multiple mains powered devices using the hardwire interlink method you need to firstly follow the steps found here. You can then continue with the above steps to add battery powered devices to this mains powered network.

Our radio-interlinked smoke detectors are digitally coded which means that they are not effected by any other equipment or by a similar system being installed nearby. When the smoke alarm system is installed, a 'training-in' button is pressed on each smoke alarm which trains the alarms to recognise each other as a 'family'. Place one mains powered Smart RF enabled smoke or heat alarm on the existing hard-wired network. This will link all other Smart RF alarms or accessories to communicate to hardwire interconnected alarms. In Scotland, since February 2022, interlinked smoke and heat alarms have needed to be fitted in all homes. If you are in Scotland, please read this article here for the best interlinked smoke & heat alarm bundle that you can install yourself.If you buy a battery-powered smoke alarm (rather than a mains-powered one), you'll need to decide whether you want one with a replaceable 9V battery, or sealed fixed-life battery In new build properties, cable can be relatively cheap and easy to install (without the need for trunking) so the extra cost may not be a viable proposition to you. However, some new build properties have concrete ceilings, meaning that surface wiring via trunking will still be necessary. In these applications the use of RF will likely to be highly beneficial. Pros: Can suit dustier areas, such as lofts, the area near your bathroom or rooms where people smoke. All of the major manufacturers (Aico, FireAngel and Kidde) make smoke and heat alarms that will work in combination with one another and we have tested pairs of smoke and heat alarms from each of them.

The red LED next to the learn button will flash briefly then light up for approximately five seconds. Additional smoke, heat, CO and accessories for the deaf and hard of hearing can be added or removed at anytime.Pros: Good for bedrooms, landings and hallways, and near to kitchens as they aren’t as prone to false alarms from cooking.