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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: Tadees on September 18, 2015, 05:23:14 PM
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It is as clear as mud in the BS, Lacors & the Sleeping Guide whether the heat detectors in the kitchen and living room of a bedsit in a 3 storey HMO should be linked to the communal system.
Lacors clearly implies it, the BS kind of implies it (when read as a whole) and the Sleeping Guide says there is no need. I guess it has to be determined on the basis of a FRA, but it would be nice if all guides said the same thing, or is that too difficult?
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Too difficult.
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Dont worry, the smoke detectors in adjacent rooms will probably go off first anyway :)
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I think the guidance deals with different situations so it cannot be definitive it is left up to you, as a competent risk assessor, to select the best situation for each case.
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All well and good until the EHO acting under the Housing Act starts to put his pennyworth.
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If it really is a BS 5839-6 compliant Grade A LD2 system then one would expect the detectors to be interlinked? This is the technical standard for such an alarm system. The other guidance documents referred to are building design / risk assessment guides and as a result of the fire risk assessment it might be concluded that variations from BS 5839-6 are appropriate, in which case they should be documented as such.