A company, a trust, a real estate agency, a body corporate or a developer that owns or manages houses, townhouses or apartment units in Queensland is a landlord in the eyes of the smoke alarm law, with the same duties as a private owner and a lot more properties to meet them in. The portfolio…
Both are legal. Queensland lets you meet the interconnected smoke alarm standard with hardwired alarms or with sealed 10 year battery alarms that talk to each other wirelessly, and the law does not prefer one over the other. One rule decides which you must use, and after that it comes down to what your home…
Most people have never watched a smoke alarm check and assume it is someone pressing a button on the way through. It is more than that, and knowing the steps makes the visit quicker for everyone. Here is exactly what we do at a Queensland home or unit, in the order we do it. Before…
Selling a house in Queensland puts the smoke alarms on three pieces of paper: the contract, the written notice you must give the buyer, and the transfer form your solicitor lodges. Get the alarms right before you list and all three are a tick. Get them wrong and the buyer can take 0.15 percent of…
Every tenancy change in Queensland starts a 30 day clock on the smoke alarms, and it runs against the owner, not the tenant. Miss it and the agency is the one explaining why the entry condition report says the alarms were checked when nothing on file proves it. This is exactly what the law requires…
If you own the home you live in and nobody has touched the smoke alarms since you moved in, you have until 1 January 2027. From that date the standard that has applied to every rental and every home sold in Queensland since 2022 applies to yours as well, and the old single alarm in…