Smoke alarms

Sala

There are no smoke detectors in my apartment block. Can I forced management to install them? I am a tenant.

snubbleste

Contact your local environmental health officer to inspect the premise's compliance with minimum housing standards.

Lantus

it depends on the layout of the block and other factors like the type of alarm. In a lot of blocks with common entrances and lifts there is an alarm panel at the entrance with all apartments linked to it.

You would expect to see some detectors in common areas though.

Sala

I don't think it's environmental health?
I know what you mean about the panel, but I checked it out and there is no panel, no detectors and no alarm.

wench

Sala wrote: »

I don't think it's environmental health?
I know what you mean about the panel, but I checked it out and there is no panel, no detectors and no alarm.

The building owners do have a responsiblily to install adequate fire prevention. Lots of info here:

http://www.dublincity.ie/WaterWasteEnvironment/DublinFireBrigade/FirePrevention/Pages/LivinginApartments.aspx

dardhal

Sala wrote: »

There are no smoke detectors in my apartment block. Can I forced management to install them? I am a tenant.

To be honest, I would have loved to not have any smoke detectors in the apartment building I have been living. I can live with the slight increase in the likelyhood of being caught in a fire with no chances to escape,rather than in a 100-some apartment building where, for some reason or the other, there is not a single week without fire alarms going off, sometimes for half an hour, and at times in the middle of the night.

The alarm console being just after the front door, with easy access from outsiders (that can easily force the door to enter the lobby and make fun with the alarm) doesn't help a bit in downtown Dublin 1.

Sala

Thanks. Who is resposible for enforcing the regulation? If I approach the management company and theyrefuse, what then?