New Range of Carbon Monoxide Alarms Now Available
Carbon Monoxide (CO) is highly toxic gas that can be produced in the home by poorly installed, maintained and ventilated gas and fuel burning appliances. It is a colourless, odourless and tasteless gas which can kill or cause serious harm to your health. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), which is the body responsible for […]
Rate Your Fire Alarm System
You can now rate and review fire alarm systems and other products on Huvo (formerly Discount Fire Supplies). When viewing a product, simply click the Review this product link and you’ll be asked to score it out of 5 stars and to optionally leave your name and comments. If you’re not sure whether to buy […]
Meeting the Standard with a Fire Alarm Isolation Switch
The following is an excerpt from the BS5839 pt1 2002 standard with the most relevant parts shown in bold; 25.2 Recommendations for mains power supplies 25.2 c) ‘To facilitate local isolation during maintenance, suitable means should be provided for the double pole isolation of the low voltage supply circuit that serves the power supply and […]
Types of Smoke Detector Testing
Broadly speaking, there are two types of tests you can do to check that your smoke detector is functioning properly. Functional Testing is achieved by exposing the sensor in the detector to a source of smoke. Smoke detector testers can be used to produce simulated smoke safely and easily. This method is also known as […]
Complete range of Standard and LED Emergency Lighting Fixtures now available
We now have a complete range of standard and LED emergency lighting fixtures available to buy online with free next day delivery.
Fike Acquires Rafiki Protection Ltd
Rafiki Protection, the manufacturer of the Twinflex fire alarm system has been acquired by American based Fike. Fike is a globally recognised supplier of products and services that protect people and critical assets from dangers such as fire, explosion and over-pressurisation. With over 60 years experience manufacturing products ranging from rupture discs and explosion protection […]
Happy new year & the new VAT rate
We’d like to wish all of our customers a belated Happy new year. Hopefully now that the UK snow is melting we can all get on with 2010. We’d also like to take this opportunity to notify you of the new VAT rate of 17.5% which has been in effect across our product range since […]
Solo Detector Testers now available
Solo detector testers provide a range of products for Smoke Testing, Heat Testing, CO Testing, Detector Removal & Cleaning, Access Poles and Testing Kits. Fire detector test and service equipment must be safe both for engineer and system. At the very least it must comply with international codes & standards, be approved and/or endorsed by […]
Rafiki Twinflex Price Watch
To ensure that we offer our customers the best available prices for the complete range of Rafiki Twinflex fire alarm equipment we are now reviewing the prices of the leading on-line fire alarm retailers and price matching the lowest possible price for each product on a daily basis. This now means you do not have […]