Fire Sprinkler Installation in Corby
Book a free survey and get a fixed price in writing. No survey fee, no travel charge, and an emergency line that answers outside working hours.
- 7 miles from our yard in Kettering
- ISO 9001 certified and LPCB approved
- Covering NN17, NN18
Corby: photograph by Dmitrij M, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
What we do in Corby
Designed, installed, tested and certified by us. Nothing subcontracted, and the same standard whatever the postcode.
Design and installation
New systems, extensions and upgrades, designed, installed and commissioned.
Fire sprinkler system design and installation
Sprinkler servicing
The full BS EN 12845 routine, from the weekly gauge and alarm check to the annual service.
Fire sprinkler servicing and maintenance
Sprinkler tanks
The water supply behind the system, inspected, cleaned and replaced when it is past it.
Sprinkler tank service, maintenance and replacement
Fire pumps
Electric and diesel sets proved under flow, not just started and signed off.
Fire pump servicing, testing and maintenance
24/7 emergency
A leak, a failed pump or a discharged head, answered out of hours.
Emergency sprinkler and riser repair
Dry risers
Six-monthly inspection and the annual pressure test, with the certificate your fire risk assessment asks for.
Dry riser testing and servicing
Wet risers
Charged risers, their pumps and their tanks, tested together because they only work together.
Wet riser servicing, testing and pump maintenanceWhat this costs, and what moves the price Wet, dry, pre-action and deluge explained
Fire protection in Corby
Corby is one of the fastest-growing towns in the country, and it grew around steel. What that leaves is a lot of large-footprint industrial floorspace, much of it re-let and re-fitted for logistics, next to a great deal of new housing built at speed. Both create sprinkler work, for opposite reasons.
Where we tend to end up: the Earlstrees and Weldon North industrial estates, the large logistics floorspace off the A43, and the newer civic buildings around Corby Cube and Willow Place.
A re-let industrial unit is the classic case where the sprinkler system was designed for whatever the last occupier stored. Change the goods, change the hazard classification, and the existing system may no longer be adequate for it. That is worth checking before the insurer does.
Buildings this applies to
- Large industrial and manufacturing floorspace
- Distribution warehousing and cold storage
- New-build residential, including blocks
- Leisure and public buildings
What is actually built in Corby
Corby grew around steel, and what steel left behind is large-footprint industrial floorspace on a scale most towns this size do not have. Earlstrees and Weldon North carry a great deal of it, and much has been re-let and re-fitted for logistics rather than manufacturing. That change of use is the single most important fact about sprinkler work here.
Alongside it, Corby has been one of the fastest-growing towns in the country, and the new housing has gone up at speed and at density. New blocks bring BS 9251 work from the start, which is a different standard and a different service regime from the sheds on the other side of town.
The two together mean a Corby portfolio often spans both British Standards at once, and the risk is applying one schedule to the whole lot.
Why this matters in Corby
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A re-let unit was designed for the last occupier
This is the classic Corby case. A building put up for manufacturing and re-fitted for storage is a different hazard classification under BS EN 12845, because the design density follows the goods. The pipework in the roof does not know the tenant changed.
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Cold storage changes the problem again
Chilled and frozen space brings its own design considerations, and a system designed for ambient storage is not automatically suitable when the space is converted. Worth checking before the insurer does rather than after.
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New blocks are BS 9251, not BS EN 12845
Residential development at density falls under the life safety standard, which is built around controlling a fire in the room of origin. Managing agents who inherit a block and service it to the commercial schedule end up on the wrong intervals with the wrong tests recorded.
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Big floorspace usually means a pump
Large industrial buildings generally need a fire pump to make the design density at the remote area. That pump carries its own regime: weekly start tests and a full annual performance test under flow, not just a start.
The systems Corby actually has
Predominantly sprinkler work, and more installation and alteration than most towns on our list, because so much of the floorspace is being re-fitted rather than newly built. Fire pump servicing follows the large units, and the newer residential brings riser and BS 9251 work.
Getting there: Seven miles from the yard, on the A43. Close enough that a Corby site is a normal day rather than a planned trip.
Not sure which standard your Corby building is held to?
It is a survey question rather than a paperwork one, and the survey is free. We read the building and the policy rather than assuming from the postcode.
The work, not the town
These are our own jobs rather than stock photographs. We have not claimed any of them were taken in Corby, because that is not something we would be able to show you.
All 52 photographsWorth reading before you ring
Corby questions, answered
We have taken on a re-let industrial unit in Corby. What should we check?
What the previous occupier stored. The sprinkler system was designed to a hazard classification for their goods, not yours. Change what is racked in there and the existing system may no longer be adequate, which is something an insurer checks and a landlord rarely mentions.
Do you cover the Earlstrees and Weldon estates?
Yes, both, and they are seven miles from our yard. Corby has a lot of large-footprint floorspace that has been re-fitted more than once, so the system on the drawing and the system in the roof are not always the same thing.
Want a price for this building?
An engineer walks the plant room, counts what is actually there and writes it up. The survey is free, the figure is firm, and it holds for thirty days. No obligation either way.
Where Corby is on our patch
7 miles from our yard in Kettering, inside the ring we are in most weeks.
Towns near Corby
We cover all of England from our base in Kettering, so if your building is between two of these it makes no difference to us. Distances are straight-line, from Corby.
Approved, and audited on a schedule.
Two certifications, and the first one is the reason we could apply for the second. ISO 9001 is a precondition for LPCB approval, so this is a sequence rather than a collection.
ISO 9001:2015
Certified by BRE Global, accredited by UKAS
An audited quality management system. It means the way a job is planned, recorded and signed off is itself inspected by somebody independent, on a schedule.
LPCB approved
Loss Prevention Certification Board
The approval UK insurers look for on sprinkler work. A system installed by an LPCB approved contractor counts as genuine risk mitigation on your policy; one installed by anybody else may not.
Working to BS EN 12845, BS 9251 and BS 9990. If your insurer or fire risk assessor wants the certificates themselves, ring us and we will send them over.
Tell us the building. We will tell you what it is due.
No survey fee to find out where you stand. Describe the site and we will tell you which intervals apply and what the visit involves.