linked fire alarm any advice?

[alfi]

I recently vsisted a property where flats are built on the rear and over a public house ( conversion), the flats have a AFD ad MCP in the single escape route, which is linked directly back into the public house fire alarm system. some faults have occurred after hours where the tenants have activated the fire alarm via the AFD, and  then had to call out the publican to silence at the main panel, as they don't have access to it. he now  wants a repearter panel panel put in the domestic area so tenants can silence this themselves, but I'm reluctant to sanction this in case the reverse situation occurs and the AFD in the public bar acivates the AFD in the domestic premises, it would mean the tenants would simple silence teh system and go back to bed without looking at where the AFD was acivated, maybe with a fre raging in the public bar.

Anyone got any pratcical advise that is cost effective.

[Allen Higginson]

Hi Tony!
I take it that it is only one control panel covering both areas - is there any chance of installing a seperate panel for the accomodation side?You could then set it up that from accomodation to the bar would be non-latching and so would not require the landlord to attend once system had been reset.

[kurnal]

What is the standard of fire separation between the pub and the flats? If there is a one hour standard of compartmentation- protecting flats from pub and pub from flats-  and if the means of escape from the flats are completely separate and independent then  as a baseline standard there may be no need for interconnection of alarms at all.

[alfi]

Hi Tony!
I take it that it is only one control panel covering both areas - is there any chance of installing a seperate panel for the accomodation side?You could then set it up that from accomodation to the bar would be non-latching and so would not require the landlord to attend once system had been reset.

thanks  mate

Sorry to be a bit thick but waht does non-latching  mean?

[Graeme]

Think Buzz means that the zone would not latch in the sounders like a class change idea so when say the call point that was activated was reset then the sounders would stop instead of latching in and require physically silencing and resetting at the control panel.

[Allen Higginson]

Sort of - if you had two panels and the accomodation came up on the bar panel on a zone (and vice versa) you could make that zone non-latching.This means that you could silence the bells on both panels and once the panel that had originally activated had been reset the other would also reset.
If you use a panel with programmable relay outputs you can get round the problem of panel A signalling panel B then panel B signals panel A etc. (round robin) and making resetting a pain.