Currently looking for fire alarm installers to assist on projects throughout London on a self employed basis. Must be competent working on large scale addressible systems in a commercial setting. Will be required to have all of your own tools and transport. SSSTS, IPAF and ECS required.
Please...
I thought I would take a few minutes to give my recent experience in wiring a large garage for power and an alarm circuit. This relates to clipped direct for all cables, using Linian clips.
A laser round the garage, drilling the 6mm holes. clipping the 2.5mm to the brickwork all went very well...
Gold card spark who has now switched to an office role and I'm looking to progress my career by gaining knowledge of related systems etc and Fire Alarms are a big part of the work that we have coming in. Looking to get a feel for the work and not be a pen pusher who doesn't appreciate what I'm...
Bungalow, existing property, owner occupied. Front door opens into hallway. Kitchen is separated from the hallway by a door. Kitchen also has a external door leading to garden.
If installing to minimum building regs requirements (Grade D2 Category LD3), does the kitchen need a heat alarm...
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I ve been moved into a new house in which my previous owner doesnt remember his code
The alarm system is from wisdom group Risco
I would like to know if i could bypass the previous code and type a new one or if its possible to reset to default
If none of these can happen please let me...
I have an old Optima XM alarm system in my house in which has worked fine for over 20 years. Recently when I was trying to set the alarm to go out, the buttons on the keypad were bleeping as I was trying to set the alarm, but the alarm wasn't setting. A little later I would try again and...
Hi,
Im an electrician but have been installing the odd alarms for some of my customers too.
Used to use the Honeywell Accenta G4 with the dialler facility etc with no problems. However it seems Honeywell have discontinued this easy to install system.
Could anyone recommended a replacement...
Hi guys. I am wiring a kitchen extension and planning to install seprate CU for this. I have two questions if you guys help me finding answers.
1) do I need to install spd for this cu . existing cu doesn't have any.
2)There is no smoke alarm in the property and the owner is not interested to...
Hi,
Our alarm always has a zone open whenever we set it.
The zone consists of two door sensors and three shockguards. Is there a way to work out where the problem is? Also we dont have an engineers code.
Thanks!
I installed some aico smoke detectors about a year ago. They are interlinked with radio bases.
The customer has just discovered that when she presses one of the buttons on the sky Q box the smoke detector goes off for 5-10 seconds.
Before I change the smoke detector I wondered if there was...
Hi all,
I`m hoping someone can give advice how the following will work:
I have 1 x C-Tec CFP 4 zone conventional panel i need to link to the existing Surveyor Excel-K 4 zone conventional panel which is in the opposite building. There already is an FP 4-core which is fed from the existing FAP to...
I know this is a forum for electrical problems but I can't find a forum for burglar alams (is there one?)
Bye the by one of you may have an answer . . . .
My alarm system (Accenta G3 mini) was installed a long time ago (maybe 20 years). The system was working fine until I changed the battery...
Hi Folks.....I'm replacing hard wired interlinked smoke alarms with new battery interlinked ones. I disconnected old alarms and left the wires connected to cable connectors. My intention was to push these into the ceiling and position new alarms to hide this. Downstairs cable is 4 core, and...
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My first post.
I am installing Nest Protect (battery) units, and have a problem as to where to fit them in the bedrooms.
Bedrooms all have flat ceilings, one door and one window each. So far so good.
The problem I have is each bedroom has a large ceiling fan and an Aircon unit. Two...
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I'm helping my friend do up an old house he bought a couple months ago and obviously we need to have mains powered smoke detectors installed. I'd just like to ask a couple of questions about the type we need and their placement.
Firstly the upstairs landing is literally about 1m^2 and...
Hello.
Wondering if someone could give me some advice on my Veritas alarm.
I recently had an extended power cut, when the power was restored, the alarm still worked. A week later, I had another power cut lasting about two hours. When power was restored, the alarm came on, though I...
Good evening all,
I have added an extra smoke alarm to an extension that I have just finished. I have been asked to provide a fire alarm certficate. I am a assuming it is the modification certificate. However when I look at the NIC certs it states that this is for grade A Systems. Mine is a...
Evening all,
If you are adding extra smoke alarms to a property, due to an extension do you need to provide additional certification apart from the test certficate.
Hi all,
I'm working in a company that makes battery smoke alarms, we're now one of the biggest intrusion alarm manufacturers in the EU region. We're developing our own Mains Powered Smoke / Heat / Co detectors and I would like to talk to proffesionl electricians who installs AICO / FireAngel /...
Hi All,
I wondered if someone might advise me on an issue I am having.
I turned off my power to replace a plug socket in my house and when I turned the power back on, the burglar alarm started going off. Unfortunately I have just bought and moved into the house and I do not know the codes...
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