On 02/02/2020 20:07, Mathew Newton wrote:
I am getting to the end of an extension to create a 'family room' - an open-plan kitchen/diner/lounge and am wondering what best to do about smoke/heat alarms.... Given the risk of false alarms I understand that a heat alarm is most appropriate for a kitchen however do they still perform adequately in a large room (9m x 5m)? There will be a defined kitchen area and so I was going to locate it there - perhaps above / to the side of the hob+oven?

Or should I be looking at something else? (Maybe some sort of best-of-both-worlds combined affair that I might not be aware of?)

The rest of the house used interlinked Aico alarms and so they would be my starting point, and perhaps finishing point too if alarms from different manufacturers cannot be mixed.

I've NEVER had a false alarm since I swopped my ionizing one for a
photoelectric...end of story .....