Smoke Detector recommendations

[nettlescr]

I started buying Halo’s for my house after 2 relized the cost was going to too much. Then I found this:

Connected Smoke Alarms

Yes that is correct. When I bought my house I only had 1 wired smoke detector in my upstairs hallway. Code in my area has changed and now requires smoke detectors in all bedrooms. When I was renovating my kitchen I didn’t want to get caught up in all of that and have to pay an electrician for something I could do so I installed a wired smoke detector in all bedrooms and connected them to the hallway smoke detector in parallel: hallway to bedroom 4, bedroom 4 to bedroom 3, and so on. Then I found a way to run the wire from the attic to the crawl space below the first floor so I removed my downstairs battery hallway detector and connected it with a wired one. Long story short I knew how it was all wired together and I had easy access to the last run. The bedroom detectors are just smo…

The Halos are still connected and work great for the rest I followed this write up. The Halos do not interconnect with the rest of the house but they are close enough to the interconnected ones that if they trip the interconnected ones will be going off also. If I had seen this write up first I wouldn’t have bought the Halos at all