Smoke alarms

[ProseccoOnIce]

Has anyone done their own alarms recently?

I missed the deadline earlier this year, as I didn't have the finances.

Thinking of doing my own interlinked ones rather than hard-wired.

Not sure where to buy them from, or how much they should cosr.

Any suggestions?

We got an electrician to do them, was around £250 I think?

My parents bought a set from B&Q, I think it was Home Guard or similarly named brand. You need to make sure you have the correct number of alarms and they are in the right place. And check that they have connecting for the interlinking when you are outside (you need to test the sound and my dad said it could have woken the dead). It was relatively easy to do.

Both our set and my parents are battery operated, battery meant to last 10yrs. Screw in the ceiling.

The £250 we paid was for installation and the cost of the alarms. We already had a CO2 one installed a few years ago.

Kitchen one is heat sensor. Then one in living room, landing and top landing.

I got mine battery operated alarms from safelincs. Cost £120 ish for 3 smoke alarms, 1 heat alarm and a Co2 alarm.
www.safelincs.co.uk/smoke-alarms/

@traintraveller - thanks for the link

• going to try & do it myself

Still got to get ours done, current ones are hardwired in so need an electrician in to replace.

You can buy them yourself. Think screwfix we’re the cheapest last time I looked. I haven’t bothered yet either. Pointless while we’re renovating really but when we get round to it we’ll just do it ourselves. My dad fitted my grans but I think she got hers off some firm advertising on the telly.

Thats the ones I got too. Easy as anything to install