Scots Householders Only

[Banchory Buddha]

We needed 2 CM /heat in kitchen and lounge
Then 4 others dotted around the house, we were quoted almost £500 from the people of do our house alarm. Wife s looking into cheaper alternatives.

1. Ye didna
2. Dinna bother

Like others, I was worried about the insurance angle, I've listened to folks who know what they're talking about.

You might have an issue when it comes to selling your house, so yeah get them then when you'll be on a tarting up anyway, otherwise you're throwing your money at something not needed

 

[Banchory Buddha]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1486237098642448385

Good info there from insurers, you don't need to fit them.

 

[Robster59]

We had it confirmed in writing by our insurer (AXA), that not having these will not invalidate our insurance.

 

[Robster59]

We're looking to sell our house, so decided we'd better fit these in advance. In the end, I ordered HiSpec alarms, 4 off smoke alarms and 1 off heat alarm for £25 each, battery operated.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

All fitted, fireguard plus, cost £190 for 5. Battery.
Quite easy to fit once you worked out how to do it.
Just filling in and painting the holes from the three old ones now.

I know someone who recently sold a house and they had them fitted before sale.
Market is pretty crazy at the moment, it went for 28% over asking price.

 

[Robster59]

All fitted, fireguard plus, cost £190 for 5. Battery.
Quite easy to fit once you worked out how to do it.
Just filling in and painting the holes from the three old ones now.

I know someone who recently sold a house and they had them fitted before sale.
Market is pretty crazy at the moment, it went for 28% over asking price.

I know, we have no idea what we will get for ours.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I know, we have no idea what we will get for ours.

They sold within a fortnight on closing day, with 35 viewers, two early rejected bids and 5 bids on the day.

Newton Mearns eh!
You should perhaps be buying bigger boots to fill.

 

[jim8flog]

Market is pretty crazy at the moment, it went for 28% over asking price.

Where I live it is also about the speed of sales. My daughters next door neighbour sold the same day as it went on the market and I have heard of several similar stories.

 

[howlsatthemoon]

Bought these Hispec 10YR Lithium Battery Wireless Interlink Smoke Alarm | Express Electrical easy to link and simple to install. Meets all the specs and are reasonably priced.

 

[Robster59]

We're looking to sell our house, so decided we'd better fit these in advance. In the end, I ordered HiSpec alarms, 4 off smoke alarms and 1 off heat alarm for £25 each, battery operated.

Just arrived today. A couple of months to get here, but I'll get them fitted tonight. Fingers crossed.

 

[KenL]

Just arrived today. A couple of months to get here, but I'll get them fitted tonight. Fingers crossed.

Are they wired together? Thanks

 

[Robster59]

No, wireless. Here are the links
https://www.expresselectrical.net/h...on-2?search=HSA/BH/RF10-PRO &description=true
https://www.expresselectrical.net/h...able?search=HSA/BP/RF10-PRO &description=true

 

[Banchory Buddha]

Still nae gettin 'em

 

[Robster59]

Old thread I know but thought better than creating a new one. Having moved house, I've just had to order some more as the previous owners hadn't fitted them. However, we got them to take the price of the alarms off the selling price. After the original panic, the price has come down now to £21.59 each so a fair drop from when I ordered them from the old house. I used the same supplier as they seem to still be the most competitively priced. It may be a pain, but we're covered now in line with the Scottish regs.

 

[Neilds]

Old thread I know but thought better than creating a new one. Having moved house, I've just had to order some more as the previous owners hadn't fitted them. However, we got them to take the price of the alarms off the selling price. After the original panic, the price has come down now to £21.59 each so a fair drop from when I ordered them from the old house. I used the same supplier as they seem to still be the most competitively priced. It may be a pain, but we're covered now in line with the Scottish regs.

I knew Jocks were tight but getting the price of a house reduced by £21.59 (times 2 or 3?) makes me chuckle

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

They sold within a fortnight on closing day, with 35 viewers, two early rejected bids and 5 bids on the day.

Newton Mearns eh!
You should perhaps be buying bigger boots to fill.

Aye, but some funny folk live and have lived there…indeed some have spent 50yrs of their life calling NM Home… Funny thing is that for what my house in Surrey would sell for today I could buy a lot of what I used to think were the homes of the posh folk of Broom…we weren’t. We just lived in Broom.

On linked alarms and CO…doing our building work our electrician advised that we install linked smoke and CO alarms - though not a requirement in England for residential properties he says he has to log that he has either installed them or at least advised the householder. He has to do this for his certification and it sounds like he should be persuading householders to just get it done when he is doing a load of other electrical work.

The smoke alarms we were of course fine with - however having a CO monitor installed in our lounge because we had an open fire we were less so. In truth, with it installed just above the door into our lounge we actually do not notice it is there.

 

[Robster59]

I knew Jocks were tight but getting the price of a house reduced by £21.59 (times 2 or 3?) makes me chuckle

It depends what part of Glasgow you are in. Some of the more affluent areas can go as high as £23.76.

 

[Robster59]

Aye, but some funny folk live and have lived there…indeed some have spent 50yrs of their life calling NM Home… Funny thing is that for what my house in Surrey would sell for today I could buy a lot of what I used to think were the homes of the posh folk of Broom…we weren’t. We just lived in Broom.

On linked alarms and CO…doing our building work our electrician advised that we install linked smoke and CO alarms - though not a requirement in England for residential properties he says he has to log that he has either installed them or at least advised the householder. He has to do this for his certification and it sounds like he should be persuading householders to just get it done when he is doing a load of other electrical work.

The smoke alarms we were of course fine with - however having a CO monitor installed in our lounge because we had an open fire we were less so. In truth, with it installed just above the door into our lounge we actually do not notice it is there.

New build houses in Broom are now well over £1M. That's why we had to move out of the Mearns in the end as we couldn't pay off the mortgage AND buy another decent property in the area. The prices of bungalows in particular are ridiculous.
For the Carbon Monoxide moniter, the only place that would require one in our house is the garage, where the boiler is located. It vents outside but I'm going to put one in there just as a precaution. You can sort of see the logic of some of the locations, but even in our 4 bedroomed house, I would say that a smoke alarm in the hall and landing and a heat alarm in the kitchen would be sufficient. However, that's it now for 10 years so it works out at about £13 per year to cover the property. Not a lot in the grand scheme of things.

 

[KenL]

I knew Jocks were tight but getting the price of a house reduced by £21.59 (times 2 or 3?) makes me chuckle

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[KenL]

Old thread I know but thought better than creating a new one. Having moved house, I've just had to order some more as the previous owners hadn't fitted them. However, we got them to take the price of the alarms off the selling price. After the original panic, the price has come down now to £21.59 each so a fair drop from when I ordered them from the old house. I used the same supplier as they seem to still be the most competitively priced. It may be a pain, but we're covered now in line with the Scottish regs.

Did that regulation ever go through? Because I've not heard about this recently I assumed it had been binned.