Protect your home or business with a Fire Alarm or Smoke Alarm

Private sector landlords are required from 1 October 2015 to have at least one smoke alarm installed on every storey of their properties and a carbon monoxide alarm in any room containing a solid fuel burning appliance (eg a coal fire, wood burning stove). After that, the landlord must make sure the alarms are in working order at the start of each new tenancy.

The requirements will be enforced by local authorities who can impose a fine of up to £5,000 where a landlord fails to comply with a remedial notice.

Amendments to Schedule 4 to the Housing Act 2004

Where the house is in England—

1. To ensure that a smoke alarm is installed on each storey of the house on which there is a room used wholly or partly as living accommodation, and
2. To keep each such alarm in proper working order;
3. The landlord should ensure that a carbon monoxide alarm is installed in any room in the house which is used wholly or partly as living accommodation and contains a solid fuel burning combustion appliance;
4. To keep any such alarm in proper working order; and
5. To supply the authority, on demand, with a declaration by him as to the condition and positioning of any such alarms in rooms and also includes a hall or a landing.

What can we do to ensure you meet the current amendments?

TES will ascertain all of the information on your property i.e. carrying out a fire risk assessment and advise you if you are complying with the Housing Act 2004 amendment 2015 or meeting the current regulations (BS5839 Part 1 for your non domestic property or BS5839 Part 6 for your domestic property). Having a fire alarm/smoke alarm installed will alert you of a fire and will give you a much better chance of escaping from a fire.