I am working on this job with a Tesla Powerwall3 inside garage by customer request and failed inspection due to Missing Heat Detector interconnect to the house Smoke detector or Fire system. As this is a new home and down here in South Nevada there is no prewired neither a Smoke detector inside garage. Here are my interrogantes: 1 Installing a Heat or Smoke detector inside a garage (at least with this really hot summer in las Vegas) is going to be annoying for the customer. 2 Any Idea how comply with this requirement?. Anyone successfully connected a Wireless device to the hardwire home system?
BATTERY INSIDE GARAGE REQUIREMENTS
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Joe.B
Senior Member
- Location
- Myrtletown Ca
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- Building Inspector
I remember when this requirement first hit the codes there was some chatter among our local fire code folks who thought it was a "kart before the horse" kind of thing. This is outdated, and CA specific, but interesting:
jaggedben
Senior Member
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- Northern California
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- Solar and Energy Storage Installer
I don't see why. It's required to be a heat alarm, not a smoke alarm, so that it doesn't trip from dust and exhaust. If the garage is too hot for the heat alarm (typically 135F) then I think you have issues with garage ventilation, even in Vegas, and you probably shouldn't be installing batteries in there to begin with.
There are some wirelessly interconnected products available. We used one from X-Sense a couple times, but had to replace all the other alarms.
Also start telling all the GCs you know that new builds should include a heat alarm in the garage just in case.