LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME - 2021

Maybe your insurance company wont pay up if your house burns down?

 

Regarding the fire alarms.
I think it stated that they need to be linked so you can hear them in every part of the house.
I can hear mine in every part of my house and I can even hear the neighbours ones from my house.

This is in reflection to the Grenfell towers fire?
Yeah I think comparing a normal house to a block of flats is just slightly OTT.

 

It's in Scotland now, how long before the rest of us have to follow just because of an arse covering exercise.

 

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Of course not, you don't live in Scotland.

 

Nobody of course @shiney. That said they've also got to gain access to peoples property. I haven't seen any mention of penalties.

I'd be inclined to agree with that @Scrungee. There's also the possibility that houses wouldn't be allowed to be sold without it installed.

That's right @pete, they are linked by wi-fi. You can see the details in the second link I posted. I can hear my current ones too but of course they don't comply with the new regulations. There's also going to be a lot of perfectly good alarms making their way to landfill.

It is in response to the Grenfell Tower fire. I wonder how long it will take to change the alarms in council and privately rented properties?

 

Then may be it's the lack of lorry drivers getting supplies up here.

 

What made me wonder about that is If in England insurance companies can reduce payouts for non-compliance with Building Regulations (N.B. not retrospective), something similar might also happen in Scotland, where loss adjusters could say the absence smoke detectors led to the fire damage being worse and reduce the claim accordingly.

 

We have 3 smoke alams and are conected together not wifi but through wires, 1 goes off they all work, fixed over 20 years ago

 

Are they mains operated? I think mains smoke detectors may be one of the things that householders can no longer do themselves and must use expensive electricians.

Our dog comes running to find us, barking like crazy if one of ours goes off. We then make a fuss of him for being a good dog and give him a biscuit. Works for us.

P.S. When there's a house full of smoke/heat/carbon monoxide detectors all going off together, how do you know which room has a problem?