The best place for a smoke alarm is on the ceiling. Try and keep them 30cm 12 inches away from any walls, lights, doors, heating or air-conditioning vents. Test the alarm to make sure you can hear it loud and clear from every room in the house — even with the doors closed. Ideally you want to have an alarm within 7 metres 22 feet of the living room door and 3 metres 9 feet of a bedroom door. In homes with more than one level, fit alarms in the downstairs hallway and on every stair landing.
For extra safety, fit smoke alarms in the bedrooms too — this can help protect you while you sleep. Try not to fit smoke alarms too close to the kitchen door — steam and cooking fumes are the most common cause of false alarms. You can get some smoke alarms that are specially designed for use close to kitchens. You should have a heat alarm in your kitchen.
In addition to this, the new Scottish regulations also require interlinked smoke alarms to be fitted in all hallways and landings in homes. A heat alarm is better suited to a kitchen than a smoke alarm, as a smoke alarm could be set off by smoke from cooking. Heat alarms are designed to react to rapidly rising temperatures which could indicate a fire, rather than to smoke. Under the new Scottish regulations, from February , all homes will need a heat alarm that links to smoke alarms fitted elsewhere in the home.
When the new regulations come into force, interlinked smoke and heat alarms will need to be mains powered or come with a sealed tamper-proof long life up to 10 years battery.
Interlinked alarms connect with other linked alarms through radio. The new law was introduced following the Grenfell fire in It was due to come into force in but its implementation has been delayed by a year due to the Covid pandemic. The new regulations in fact already apply to the rental sector and are now being extended to cover all housing, both privately owned and rental. If you rent a property in Scotland, and think that there is a problem with the alarms fitted in your home — and that the landlord is failing to comply with the law — you are entitled to apply to the first-tier tribunal Housing and property Chamber , which was set up to deal with landlord and tenant issues.
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Where there is a carbon-fuelled appliance such as boilers, fires including open fires and heaters or a flue, a carbon monoxide detector is also required which does not need to be linked to the fire alarms. All homes will be covered by the new standard, as it is important that all homes should be safe for occupants regardless of tenure. Where owners are unable to meet the standard, it is not a criminal offence. This legislation was introduced in January and will ensure that everyone in Scotland has the same level of protection whether they own or rent their home.
The regulations were due to come into force in February , however, in light of difficulties caused by COVID, we sought and the Scottish Parliament agreed to delay the implementation of this legislation for a period of 12 months to February However, installing alarms at the earliest opportunity, will provide improved fire safety in your home.
Yes — the requirement is to have all alarms interlinked. You may not hear the alarm closest to the fire but, by having an interlinked system, you will be alerted immediately. Scottish legislation changes coming on February require all home safety devices to be interlinked, and much more. Are you up to date?
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