Fire Sprinkler Installation in Market Harborough
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.
- 10 miles from our yard in Kettering
- ISO 9001 certified and LPCB approved
- Covering LE16
Market Harborough: photograph by Colin Babb, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
What we do in Market Harborough
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 Market Harborough
A Leicestershire market town with a well-preserved historic centre and a lot of listed and period fabric, plus modern development around the edges. Historic buildings are where suppression is most valuable and most difficult, because the constraint is doing the work without wrecking what you are protecting.
Where we tend to end up: the listed fabric around The Square and the Old Grammar School, the High Street conservation area, and the Riverside industrial estate on the edge of town.
In a listed building the sprinkler argument is usually the reverse of the usual one: a system that puts out a fire with a few heads causes far less damage than a fire brigade attack on the whole structure. Getting consent means showing the pipework route respects the fabric.
Buildings this applies to
- Listed and period buildings in the town centre
- Converted upper floors and small commercial premises
- Light industrial and trade units on the outskirts
- Schools and community buildings
What is actually built in Market Harborough
Market Harborough is a Leicestershire market town with a well-preserved historic centre, and that is the defining fact for this work. The listed fabric around The Square and the Old Grammar School, and the High Street conservation area, are exactly the buildings where suppression is most valuable and most difficult at the same time.
The difficulty is not the hydraulics. It is that the constraint on a listed or conservation-area building is doing the work without damaging what you are protecting. Pipe routes, fixings, head positions and where the water supply enters all become design decisions with a heritage dimension, and consent may be needed before anything is fixed to anything.
Around the edges the town is conventional: the Riverside industrial estate and the light industrial and trade units, which are ordinary commercial sprinkler work, plus converted upper floors and small commercial premises in the centre.
Why this matters in Market Harborough
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Listed fabric constrains the route, not the design density
The required density under BS EN 12845 does not change because a building is listed. What changes is how you get the pipe there. That is a survey job with drawings, and it is worth doing properly before anybody commits to a price.
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Period buildings rarely have the compartmentation modern design assumes
Older construction often lacks the fire separation a modern layout takes for granted, which is part of why suppression is worth so much in these buildings. It also means the design cannot simply be lifted from a modern equivalent.
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Converted upper floors are residential in a commercial building
Flats above shops put BS 9251 and BS EN 12845 in the same building, with different intervals and different tests. Servicing the whole building to one schedule is the usual mistake.
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Small premises still have a weekly duty
The size of the building does not change the weekly routine under BS EN 12845: gauges, alarm motor, pump start where fitted. A small site is often where the logbook is thinnest.
The systems Market Harborough actually has
Installation and design-led in the centre, because fitting protection into historic fabric is the work that actually needs doing there, with conventional servicing on the Riverside estate and riser testing where height requires it.
Getting there: Ten miles, on the A6 and A14. Straightforward from the yard.
Not sure which standard your Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough, because that is not something we would be able to show you.
All 52 photographsWorth reading before you ring
Market Harborough questions, answered
Can you put sprinklers in a listed building in Market Harborough?
Usually, and the argument is the reverse of the usual one. A system that puts a fire out with two or three heads causes far less damage than a brigade attack on the whole structure. Getting consent means showing the pipe route respects the fabric, which is a design job before it is an installation job.
How far is Market Harborough from you?
Ten miles, so it sits in our closest band along with Corby and Wellingborough. Most of our maintenance rounds pass through, which usually means an urgent visit can be fitted in rather than scheduled.
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 Market Harborough is on our patch
10 miles from our yard in Kettering, inside the ring we are in most weeks.
Towns near Market Harborough
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 Market Harborough.
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.