Fire Pump Testing in Daventry
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.
- 21 miles from our yard in Kettering
- ISO 9001 certified and LPCB approved
- Covering NN11
Daventry: photograph by Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
What we do in Daventry
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 Daventry
Daventry is dominated by DIRFT, the rail freight terminal, and the very large distribution buildings around it. This is some of the biggest warehouse floorspace in the Midlands, and it is exactly the building type where sprinkler protection is not optional in practice, because insurers will not write the risk without it.
Where we tend to end up: DIRFT, the rail freight terminal, and the very large distribution buildings around it, plus the Royal Oak industrial estate and the town centre around the Moot Hall.
On a building of that size the fire pump is the single point of failure for the whole system. An annual test under real flow conditions is the only way to know it will deliver, and it is the test most often skipped because it is disruptive.
Buildings this applies to
- Rail-served distribution and logistics buildings
- High-bay and automated warehousing
- Trade counters and light industrial
- Residential and town centre premises
What is actually built in Daventry
Daventry is defined by DIRFT, the rail freight terminal, and the very large distribution buildings around it. This is some of the biggest warehouse floorspace in the Midlands, and it is the building type where sprinkler protection stops being a choice: insurers will generally not write the risk without it, whatever Building Regulations say.
Buildings at that scale are not simply bigger versions of a trade unit. They run high-bay racking, sometimes automated, and the design has to deliver the required density at the remote area of a floor plate measured in hundreds of thousands of square feet. That means a stored water supply and a pump set, and it means the pump is the single most important component on site.
Around the terminal sit the Royal Oak industrial estate and the town centre around the Moot Hall, which are conventional work by comparison. But the rail-served sheds are what the town is, and they are what this page is really about.
Why this matters in Daventry
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High-bay storage is the hardest case in the standard
Above a certain storage height, roof-level protection alone cannot get water down into the stack quickly enough and sprinklers go inside the racking. In-rack protection changes the pipework, the water demand, and what happens every time the racking layout is altered.
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The pump is the system
On a building this size the design density depends entirely on the pump making its duty. A weekly start test proves it runs. It does not prove it performs. The annual test under flow is the one that actually answers the question, and it is the one most often reduced to a start.
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Automation constrains when you can work
Automated and high-bay warehousing cannot be walked and isolated the way a conventional unit can. Access to valve sets, pumps and in-rack pipework has to be planned against the operating pattern, not the other way round.
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Storage categorisation is an insurer question here
The LPC Rules include a Technical Bulletin dealing specifically with the categorisation of goods in storage, and it drives the design. On a rail-served distribution building the goods change, and the categorisation should be rechecked when they do.
The systems Daventry actually has
Fire pump servicing first, which is unusual on our list and is why it leads the services on this page. Beyond that: large-system annual servicing, in-rack and design work when racking changes, and sprinkler installation on new floorspace.
Getting there: Twenty-one miles, on the A45 and A5, with M1 junction 16 serving the terminal. A planned visit rather than a drop-in, and worth booking against the site's operating pattern.
Not sure which standard your Daventry 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 Daventry, because that is not something we would be able to show you.
All 52 photographsWorth reading before you ring
Daventry questions, answered
We operate a shed at DIRFT. What matters most?
The pump. On a building that size it is the single point of failure for the whole system, and an annual test under real flow conditions is the only thing that proves it will deliver. It is also the test most often skipped, because running a pump at full flow disrupts the building.
Can you work outside our operating hours?
Yes, and on a distribution site it is usually the only sensible way. Out of hours attracts a premium rate, which we put in the quotation rather than adding afterwards, and the alternative is isolating a live warehouse in the middle of a shift.
Is the price different because we are in Daventry?
We price the building and the work, not the postcode, and mileage and parking are ours. Daventry is 21 miles from our yard, inside the ring we work every week, so what changes a quotation here is the size of the system and how much of it is accessible, not where you are.
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 Daventry is on our patch
21 miles from our yard in Kettering, inside the ring we are in most weeks.
Towns near Daventry
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 Daventry.
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.