All kit

Home safety

Check what you already have before buying, and read the practical guide if you are not sure what you need.

An emergency kit laid out on a garden table: a radio, torch, batteries, bottled water, tins, a first aid box, a power bank, a lantern and a checklist.

Carbon monoxide alarm

Follow the guide's placement, maintenance and evacuation advice; an alarm never makes indoor camping-stove use safe.

Our pick

FireAngel FA6813

The cheaper FA6813 also qualifies through owner evidence.

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The cheaper FA6813 also qualifies through owner evidence. No independent comparative gas-exposure test was verified for this model.

Our write-up

Smoke alarm

The product cannot interlink; the guide's hearing-in-bed check remains essential. Have an installer assess whole-home coverage and any existing wired system before replacing it with standalone units.

Our pick

FireAngel SB1-R single alarm

The SB1-R qualifies through written owner reports: repeated straightforward fitting and audible testing, with some reservations about build quality.

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The SB1-R qualifies through written owner reports: repeated straightforward fitting and audible testing, with some reservations about build quality.

Our write-up

Also good, sold by Amazon

FireAngel FA6120-INT optical smoke alarm

Also good, and sold by Amazon.ie itself: an optical smoke alarm certified to EN 14604 with a sealed ten-year battery, so there is no battery to change during its working life.

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Also good, and sold by Amazon.ie itself: an optical smoke alarm certified to EN 14604 with a sealed ten-year battery, so there is no battery to change during its working life.

Kitchen heat alarm

This is a standalone heat alarm. It does not replace smoke alarms elsewhere or provide linked whole-house coverage. Follow its instructions for a full test and check it can be heard in bed with the door closed.

Our pick

FireAngel FA6215-INT heat alarm

Also good, and sold by Amazon.ie itself: a kitchen heat alarm approved to BS 5446-2:2003 under the same BSI Kitemark certificate as the FireAngel FA6720-R, running on two replaceable AA alkaline cells.

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Also good, and sold by Amazon.ie itself: a kitchen heat alarm approved to BS 5446-2:2003 under the same BSI Kitemark certificate as the FireAngel FA6720-R, running on two replaceable AA alkaline cells.

Also good

FireAngel FA6720-R

Written owner reports repeatedly describe easy fitting, with one reporting easier testing and fewer nuisance alerts than previous alarms.

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Written owner reports repeatedly describe easy fitting, with one reporting easier testing and fewer nuisance alerts than previous alarms.

Our write-up

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