"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Doing some work for a guy who is abroad & has let his house. I have a
list of exactly what he wants done and one item is 'fit smoke alarm'.

The tenant says it must be a mains smoke alarm to comply with 'the
regulations'. Is this right? If so it's going to come to a lot more than
installing a battery model.

Anyone know? Is it building regs or something else?

A friend lives in a block of flats where, recently, one of the occupants of
another flat managed to have a chip pan fire. The fire brigade sent one of
their fire prevention officers around, who fitted, free of charge, a battery
operated smoke alarm in any flats that did not have one.

Colin Bignell