C-Tec’s innovative Cast and Hush Pro fire alarm systems are safeguarding a charming cluster of commercial and residential properties in Llangollen, Wales. As a ‘mixed-use’ building housing both business units and domestic dwellings, a combination of commercial and residential fire systems was required.
Allied Fire & Escapes Ltd, a leading Wrexham-based fire specialist company, installed one of C-Tec’s powerful Cast XFP addressable fire systems to protect the ground floor retail units and interfaced it to three of C-Tec’s new Hush Pro domestic fire systems to safeguard the residential dwellings on the first floor.
Said John Westerman, Director at Allied: “Linking C-Tec’s Cast system to Hush Pro proved the ideal solution for this mixed-use building. Each domestic dwelling is fitted with a Hush Pro controller connected to a series of Hush Pro smoke detectors, base sounders and heat detectors – all interfaced via Hush Pro’s Cast Landlord Interfaces – to the Cast XFP communal/landlord system.”
Specifically designed for flats, apartments and high-rise residential buildings, Hush Pro provides residents with easy-to-use detection, alarm, silencing and test facilities so they can test their own devices, be alerted to system faults and hush any false alarms at the Hush Button which is positioned at light-switch level for easy access.
Said John: “We specified Hush Pro as it offers higher levels of fire protection over the Grade D unmonitored battery alarm systems typically used in domestic installations. As a fully-monitored BS 5839-6 Grade C system, Hush Pro reports open and short circuit faults and operation faults back to the Cast fire panel and even allows management and maintenance companies to remotely monitor the system. In the event of an emergency, Hush Pro relays information to the Cast panel to effectively notify building management.”
