Smoke alarms

The 2027 smoke alarm deadline is busy work. Be ready for it.

Mayns is made by a licensed electrician who runs a smoke alarm business. It quotes the upgrade, books it, takes the report on site and brings the re-inspections back round.

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2027

The Queensland deadline

Since 1 January 2022, a Queensland home that's sold or leased has needed interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms. From 1 January 2027, every Queensland home does — owner-occupied homes included.

Where the alarms go and what counts is set by the Queensland Government's rules. Check them for each job; Mayns doesn't make that call for you.

01 · Quote

Quote the upgrade by bedroom count.

The ready-made "Smoke alarm compliance upgrade" asks how many bedrooms and storeys, and whether the bedrooms are all off one hallway. From that it works out a starting number of alarms for the quote.

You set your own prices, and you change the number whenever the house needs something different — it's a starting point, not a compliance call.

The quote builder: a smoke alarm upgrade with its lines, subtotal, GST and total — Real screen · Job › Quote

02 · Report

The report's done before you pack up.

Start from a 3-bed, 4-bed or two-storey layout and adjust it. For each alarm: where it is, photoelectric or ionisation, hardwired, 10-year sealed or removable battery, interconnected, its manufacture date, and whether it's working.

Sign on the screen and create the QLD smoke alarm report. It's filed on the job with your QLD licence number, and you send it when you're ready.

The smoke alarm report on the phone: one alarm's location, type, power and interconnection — Real screens · Smoke alarm report · Certificate created

The smoke alarm report created and signed, with its certificate number — Real screens · Smoke alarm report · Certificate created

03 · Send

One email for the agent, not twenty.

Keep the managing agent as the client and each rental as a site, with the tenant as the person you ring. Send the agent every invoice and report for their properties in one email, or a statement of what they owe.

A document pack on the client's record: picking invoices and certificates from several jobs to send in one email — Real screen · Client › Email documents

Re-inspections that come back to you.

A list of what's due

Every property due for its next smoke alarm check in the next 30 days, and any that are overdue, in one list.

A cycle you set

The next check is suggested from the report — every 12 months in Queensland — and you can change it.

A reminder in the app

When a check comes due, the office gets a reminder in Mayns, so the repeat work isn't left to memory.

Not in Queensland? You can still issue a smoke alarm report from your own copy, retitled for your state. Check its wording matches your state's rules first.

Get your 2027 work on one screen.

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