Does a combi burglar/fire alarm meet building regs for fire?

[nomisr]

Hi,

I'm having my bungalow extended (quite a lot) and the sparky has proposed to install 1 x heat detector and 2 x smoke detectors, hard wired to the mains and interlinked with battery backup. I've no problem with this.

I'm going to install a burglar alarm and the panel I'm most likely to use has 8 zones, 2 of which can act as 24 x 7 fire zones:

http://www.security.honeywell.com/uk/products/intruder/control-panels/gen4/462388.html

If I installed heat / smoke detectors hard wired back to this panel rather than the ones the sparky was going to install, would that meet building regs?

I am planning to install smoke detectors in every bedroom for better coverage. My only concern is that the panel is a single point of failure. It may have battery backup, but if the panel itself went pop then I'd be stuffed.

Cheers,
Nomis

 

[flameport]

Get the individual linked smoke alarms, but fit one with a relay base
http://www.aico.co.uk/dmdocuments/ei128r datasheet.pdf
to connect into your alarm panel.

Panel still works in response to fire, and the individual alarms still work if the panel does not.

 

[nomisr]

Thanks flameport, I'll do just that. Seems obvious now

Cheers,
Nomis