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About fire maintenance
About fire maintenance

The British Standard 5839 and BAFE registered scheme SP203 set out what constitutes a planned maintenance visit and an emergency call out. This is a vital area of our work and we review our performance against targets every month. We believe that if we maintain your fire alarm to the exacting BS and BAFE standards and train your staff on the correct use of the system, then life and premises will truly be protected and false fire alarm activations will be kept to a minimum


Types of Maintenance

 

Preventative maintenance contracts to keep your fire alarm system in good working order.

 

Take over maintenance contracts where we take over the maintenance of your fire alarm system, even if we did not install or commission it.

 

Customised maintenance contracts to suit a specific level of service.

 

Emergency call out maintenance cover for 24 hours a day / 365 days a year.

 

Whether your system is monitored by an alarm receiving centre via remote signalling, or is a ‘bells only’ audible alarm, our engineer will carry out both preventative and emergency maintenance.

Preventative Maintenance
Your fire alarm system, once commissioned, is entered onto a maintenance database. We print out an advance list of all preventative maintenance visits and contact you to arrange a convenient time for our engineer to call. It is essential that these visits take place, not only to keep the system in optimal working order, but also to satisfy the requirements of your business or private insurers.

Our engineer will give you a written report as a record of the visit and ask for your signature to acknowledge that maintenance has been carried out. Any concerns or notes for remedial work are also recorded on the report. Finally, the fire alarm log book will be updated by our engineer.

Emergency Call Out
We aim to respond to your request for a call out within 4 hours, providing you with cover for 24 hours a day / 365 days a year.  When this happens outside normal working hours, our engineer will contact your nominated keyholder to provide access. We make sure that our engineers carry common spare parts so that we can fix your system in one visit, and we follow this through by checking our vans periodically.

As with preventative maintenance, our engineer will give you a written report of any work carried out, including parts replaced and testing and re-setting, and explain any further action required.

Customised Maintenance
We can customise your maintenance contract to satisfy the level of servicing, emergency response and administration you might require for some types of buildings, such as a prison, school or hospital. This may involve a different administrative procedure for multi-site contracts, drawing up an agreed parts inventory, or obtaining security disclosure for particularly sensitive buildings.

We’ll understand if you have special requirements, let us work with you to create the perfect maintenance contract.

Take Over Maintenance
When we take over the maintenance of a fire alarm that was installed by another company, we must first ensure that it was in fact compliant with the relevant regulations at the time of commissioning. We do this by carrying out an inspection of the protected building. Sometimes this will highlight remedial work, missing documents or lack of training. All of this information is recorded in a written report and explained to our prospective customer.

Once the system is compliant and all of the right certificates are in place, we can offer a maintenance contract to the BAFE standard. Our maintenance is BAFE approved, call us to talk about your fire alarm maintenance issues.

 
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