Nice looking / pretty smoke alarms

[cornburn]

Just doing up a property with high spec finish, has been re-plastered everywhere and nice spots etc - can anyone recommend smokes / heat detectors that don't look like they were £5 from B&Q? Ideally something small or not noticeable at all? If you've put 12 spotlights in a kitchen I can't imagine many people slap a big white plastic heat detector in the middle of it all?

 

[EoinConway]

Whilst i'd love to sell you a few of my smokies, i don't think i have what you're looking for.

Have a look at this site, looks pretty stylish but i can't seem to find the price
SIGNAL Smoke Detector » Yanko Design

Meteor

 

[Thanatosgratus]

It looks like that smoke detector is only a concept at this moment in time, The fire angel stuff isnt as ugly as most battery powered and this one is very reminiscent of a Battlestar Galactica Cylon available in silver or white and as ionising or optical models http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jacob-Jensen-optical-smoke-alarm/dp/B0009KS5QM

 

[cornburn]

Haha yes that's a bit more Star Trek than subtle! Thanks both of you, a bit of internet searching has found a Bosch one that's very slim and unintrusive but I thought this might be something people had come across before. It seems to be a bit of an untapped market, people spend hundreds on fancy lights then just slap any old smoke detector next to it. Maybe I should design some

 

[accordfire]

Haha yes that's a bit more Star Trek than subtle! Thanks both of you, a bit of internet searching has found a Bosch one that's very slim and unintrusive but I thought this might be something people had come across before. It seems to be a bit of an untapped market, people spend hundreds on fancy lights then just slap any old smoke detector next to it. Maybe I should design some

Well, yes.

There's a couple of considerations though - the smoke detection chamber (i.e. the bit the smoke has to enter to be detected, needs to be of a certain volume, and designed such that airflow/smoke easily enters the chamber.

Second, nobody, really, should be slapping them up right next to a light fitting - it will bias the detector, and may either limit ariflow, or prevent it working. There is a regulation covering this, so the detector must be a minimum of twice the depth of the light fitting away from it.

Other than that - good luck with the design project if you do it!

 

[EoinConway]

Haha yes that's a bit more Star Trek than subtle! Thanks both of you, a bit of internet searching has found a Bosch one that's very slim and unintrusive but I thought this might be something people had come across before. It seems to be a bit of an untapped market, people spend hundreds on fancy lights then just slap any old smoke detector next to it. Maybe I should design some

Cornburn, would you be so kind as to put up a link of that Bosch one so we could have a look please?

 

[cornburn]

http://resource.boschsecurity.com/documents/FAP520Automatic_Brochure_enUS_T3651423883.pdf

 

[Thanatosgratus]

Have you found a place that has the Bosch detectors as I found a post about them on AVforums.com

As for the Bosch thing - I contacted them via their website, got passed around a bit, then promised a call back. To be fair to them, they just called me and it now seems that Bosch no longer make smoke detectors at all. Shame, because it was a nice looking thing.

 

[oldtimer]

AICO look good

 

[cornburn]

No, not found anywhere. Will keep hunting for something nice looking, need to see some grand designs houses to see what architects have done there to look good!

 

[BLBelfast]

Have had this complaint from many customers (normally women) saying can you not fit a nice looking detector.

 

[accordfire]

Have had this complaint from many customers (normally women) saying can you not fit a nice looking detector.

It's a design issue as much as anything - as I think I said earlier in the thread. The Aico/EI units aren't too bad looking, and are reasonably slimline on the standard base.

But designer light fittings they're not.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Sorry just re read your original post, at first i only saw the nice looking and pretty bit of the title and nearly got carried away.

 

[Tillywolves]

I'd agree with AICO. The round ones, not the square ones....

 

[brycenesbitt]

There is a bird shaped one called the Chick-a-Dee.