A housing association has installed C-TEC’s Hush Buttons at several of its sheltered blocks of flats.
Cottsway Housing is the largest registered provider of social housing in West
Oxfordshire. It is using hundreds of Hush Buttons at its sheltered housing schemes. For use against false alarms in flats, apartments and sheltered accommodation, the buttons provide residents with the means to silence false alarms themselves should they set the fire alarm off accidentally, thus preventing the makers say unnecessary building evacuations, fire service call outs or a true fire alarm signal being ignored. Colin Walker, Fire Safety Officer at Cottsway, said: “We installed Hush Buttons as part of the fire alarm upgrades within our sheltered blocks of flats which do not have wardens or staff on-site 24 hours a day. At some flats there was real complacency that if the fire alarm sounded it was because someone had burnt the toast. C-TEC’s Hush Buttons have eradicated false alarms and restored confidence in the fire alarm system.”
Designed to work with Apollo XP95 or Hochiki ESP analogue addressable fire alarm systems, the product meets and exceeds the requirements of BS 5839 part 6 (the code of practice for fire alarm systems in dwellings), the Wigan-based makers report, by providing monitored fire detection, alarm and silencing facilities inside each flat or apartment. For more information –
