Fire regs hmo

[Pocster]

This is a follow on from my post about intermittent fault on call points .

Fire guy came out today . Ultimately he said I don’t need call points and therefore don’t need the panel ( regardless of the fault ) .

So 3 floor house .

The issue is original fire company have been saying as there is a panel it needs testing every 6 months . This is correct afaik . What pisses me is IF they said “ you don’t need the panel or call points mate “ - then it needs testing every 12 months I.e cheaper for me .

I just want to check what’s correct here before I go in a guns blazing !

[Alan Ambrose]

I wonder whether it's still sensible though? I organised a bunch of extinguishers here, which were fine until some dumb 'management company' took them out with the theory that people might be more inclined to hurt themselves. Yeah, don't bother to try to put out your chip pan fire ... let's just let the building burn down.

[Pocster]

3 minutes ago, Alan Ambrose said:

I wonder whether it's still sensible though? I organised a bunch of extinguishers here, which were fine until some dumb 'management company' took them out with the theory that people might be more inclined to hurt themselves. Yeah, don't bother to try to put out your chip pan fire ... let's just let the building burn down.

To have them you mean ; call points ?

New guys argument was they could be accidentally hit . This would of course generate the siren to go off . But , if there was a real fire the smoke detectors would go off . So you could in theory have 2 different sirens going off - confusing the occupants??

I’m just trying to be legally safe .

[Alan Ambrose]

>>> New guys argument was they could be accidentally hit.

 

Our smoke sensors here have only gone off when being tested with the aerosol stuff and when someone was vaping underneath them. So, clearly useless. Sorry, I realise that's not much help.