Castlewhite

JanRen

So, anyone staying in Castlewhite Apartments?

Partially Formed Transformah

CastleSh*te more like

Queenofnoise

Not staying, but I feel like I should impart some advice (or a warning, more like): put a sock or a showercap or a condom or something over your fire alarms first thing when you step in the door. And keep the door between your hall and kitchen closed when cooking. The kitchen alarm is a heat-sensor, while the hall one is for smoke and is ridiculously sensitive.

Stayed there for the UCC+ week, set off the alarm second day through no fault of our own, but we still have to pay a fine. Everyday after, we turned on the extractor fan when we were boiling the kettle just in case.

Bonzo-Reborn

I'm back in the Castle this year. It isn't that bad being honest, I can't wait to be back there. Big thick walls, fast internet and you can roll into college 5 mins before your lecture.



@Queenofnoise; the alarms are there for a reason. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that an extractor fan and windows are there for letting smoke out (the doors are also sprung and heavy for a reason). It was clearly your own fault.

If you put anything over a smoke alarm in castlewhite you're looking at just as hefty a fine for being caught if a warden walks in, not to mention unscrewing them because the main office has an alarm that notifies them if you're tampering with the alarm.

Queenofnoise

Bonzo-Reborn wrote: »

@Queenofnoise; the alarms are there for a reason. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that an extractor fan and windows are there for letting smoke out (the doors are also sprung and heavy for a reason). It was clearly your own fault.

If you put anything over a smoke alarm in castlewhite you're looking at just as hefty a fine for being caught if a warden walks in, not to mention unscrewing them because the main office has an alarm that notifies them if you're tampering with the alarm.

I'm well aware what fire alarms are for, thank you. As you can see from my previous post, we did open the extractor fans and windows, and we were in contact with a former occupant who had set off the fire alarm with the fire door closed and the windows open with the extractor fan on when she was living in Castlewhite. The sensitivity of the alarms in Castlewhite is downright ludicrous, and we were told that leaving doors open was a common problem because students were never warned about it.

We were told by the warden and firemen that it wasn't our fault, because the doors weren't marked to be closed, had no 'fire door' sign and we'd never been instructed not to open them. The wardens went around to every apartment to inspect after the incident, saw the makeshift fire alarm covers in some of the other apartments and didn't say anything. A lot of the apartments actually still had something covering the fire alarms from the previous year, and never was anything mentioned about them by the wardens. I was simply warning the OP not to make the same mistake with the door, and relaying the same advice we were given re: the alarms from prior occupants.

Xxsparkyxx

@Queenofnoise; the alarms are there for a reason. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that an extractor fan and windows are there for letting smoke out (the doors are also sprung and heavy for a reason). It was clearly your own fault.

Bit rude of you.

Aoi

A few friends of mine moved in a few days ago, and actually got instructions about closing the doors and opening the windows while cooking. Management learns I guess.