Fire Sprinkler Servicing in Leicester
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.
- 24 miles from our yard in Kettering
- ISO 9001 certified and LPCB approved
- Covering LE1 to LE5
Leicester: photograph by NotFromUtrecht, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
What we do in Leicester
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 Leicester
A city with a long manufacturing and textile history, a large amount of converted mill and factory space, two universities and substantial purpose-built student accommodation. Student blocks and converted mills are two of the building types where residential sprinkler work is most common.
Where we tend to end up: the purpose-built student accommodation around the two universities, the converted mills and factory space across the city, and the commercial core around the Clock Tower and Highcross.
Student accommodation is high-density sleeping risk with a fast turnover of occupants who do not know the building. It is the case BS 9251 exists for, and the intervals are enforced rather than advisory.
Buildings this applies to
- Purpose-built student accommodation
- Converted mills and factory buildings
- City centre commercial and retail
- Manufacturing and light industrial
What is actually built in Leicester
Leicester has a long manufacturing and textile history, and what that leaves is a large stock of converted mill and factory space. It also has two universities and a substantial amount of purpose-built student accommodation. Those two building types, converted mills and student blocks, are where residential sprinkler work concentrates in this city.
Student accommodation is a specific case. It is residential, high-occupancy, and occupied by people who do not know the building, which is exactly the profile a life safety standard is written for. It also empties and fills on a fixed academic cycle, and that cycle is the only sensible window for work that needs isolation.
The converted mills carry the opposite problem: heavy existing structure, pipework laid out for a use that has gone, and alterations made over decades that may or may not be recorded. The commercial core around the Clock Tower and Highcross adds conventional retail and office work on top.
Why this matters in Leicester
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Student blocks are BS 9251 territory
Purpose-built student accommodation is residential, and the residential standard is built around controlling a fire in the room of origin so occupants can escape. It carries its own maintenance regime, which a block being serviced to the commercial schedule will not be following.
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The academic year is the isolation window
Anything needing the system down is far easier between lets. Booking the annual against the academic cycle rather than the calendar year is the single biggest practical saving on a student block.
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Converted mills hide their own history
A mill converted to flats or offices has usually been altered more than once. The system often works; the as-fitted record is what is missing, and that record is what a fire risk assessor asks for.
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Taller blocks bring risers as well as sprinklers
Over 18 metres a dry riser is the minimum under BS 9990, tested at 12 bar annually with a six-monthly visual inspection. Student and residential towers commonly carry both a riser and a sprinkler system, on two different intervals.
The systems Leicester actually has
Servicing-led, with a strong riser component because of the height of the newer residential and student stock, plus installation work where mills are being converted.
Getting there: Twenty-four miles, on the A6 and M1. A regular run rather than an occasional trip.
Not sure which standard your Leicester 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 Leicester, because that is not something we would be able to show you.
All 52 photographsWorth reading before you ring
Leicester questions, answered
We manage student accommodation in Leicester. What is different?
It is high-density sleeping risk with occupants who change every year and do not know the building. That is the case BS 9251 exists for, and the intervals are enforced rather than advisory. The other difference is access: the work has to happen in the vacation or room by room.
We are in a converted mill. Is the original system still valid?
Only if the record follows the conversion. Mills get subdivided, and every subdivision changes compartmentation and often the head layout. A system designed for open floorplates rarely still suits the building after it has been cut into units.
Is the price different because we are in Leicester?
We price the building and the work, not the postcode, and mileage and parking are ours. Leicester is 24 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 Leicester is on our patch
24 miles from our yard in Kettering, inside the ring we are in most weeks.
Towns near Leicester
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 Leicester.
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.