jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Our electrician had informed us that because we have an open fire in our lounge (it could equally have been a gas fire or wood burner), we have to have a carbon monoxide monitor/alarm installed in the room. He advises this is recent legislation but I can only find where it applies to rental properties.
He also advises that all smoke and co monitors/alarms have to be mains powered, battery powered no longer allowed, and that they are all interconnected - one goes off they all go off. I am assuming he is correct in all of this. Requires a fair bit of cabling up as well as us having a co monitor/alarm on out lounge ceiling…something not exactly fitting with our design concept.
Maybe all of this comes about as he is basically rewiring as well as extending most of the downstairs; doing a couple of additional sockets upstairs as well as the smoke monitor, plus changes to the cabling for our garage and garden studio which was piggy-backing off what was our immersion fuse. And to accommodate all or this he is having to put in a new and larger consumer unit.
As per backwoodsman - this is a requirement in Scotland