smoke alarms

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I live in a house which is nearly 10 years old. There are three smoke alarms which are mains wired. These units need replacing and me and my husband are arguing over what we replace them with.

He wants to get new thermoptek 10 year alarms that aren't mains wired. I want to stay with mains wired.

Any advice?

I have the 10 year ones fitted free of charge by local fire station. However I am having an extension done and due to building regs I am having to have mains wired throughout the house.

So I am no help am I really I am being told what I have to have.

I'd go for the Thermoptek alarms. They provide better protection than most other alarms.

I had never heard of them so googled. The description sounded good but the amazon reviews were mixed - one guy had a fire and his alam didnt sound which put me off a bit. Think i will stick to my basic ones which have built in emergency lights and which give me low battery chirps. But i would be happy to be corrected as they did sound good in theory.....

the wired in ones seem to be fitted in new builds, flats and HMOs. I was under the impression they were now required by building regs but it is not my field. If your house is already wired for them it is surely easy to swap new for old.

They are more expensive, but suppposedly more reliable and longer lasting than battery ones; a fire in one room will sound the alarms in all the others; and of course there is not the "dead battery/dead householder" problem.