Recent work, written up properly

Each job written up from the building and the system to what we found and what we delivered, drawn as the programme it ran to.

Twelve mixed residential blocks onto one Managed contract

ProgrammeAs delivered

Activity

Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6

Baseline surveysAll 12 blocks

Weeks 1 to 3

27 defects priced and closedWithin six weeks

Full compliancePacks to freeholders

The building: Twelve residential blocks across Manchester, Salford and Trafford, three to six storeys, communal L5 and L2 systems in the common parts, managed by one agency for multiple freeholders.
What we found: Four incumbent suppliers, two blocks with no current alarm certificate, disconnected detectors in two bin stores, one emergency lighting circuit that had never been duration tested, and no consistent record of the landlord and tenant system boundary anywhere in the portfolio.
What we delivered: First-visit baseline surveys of all twelve blocks in three weeks, a single Managed contract with quarterly common-parts servicing, 27 defects priced and closed within six weeks, and per-building certificate packs that the agency now forwards to freeholders unedited.

ProgrammeAs delivered

Activity

Night 1Night 2Night 3Night 4

Live detectionKept running throughout

Phased migrationConventional to addressable

Re-certificatedL1 maintained

The building: A 42-bed care home in Stockport running a Category L1 system on a conventional panel installed in 2004, with parts no longer available and faults recurring monthly.
What we found: The panel had been silenced and reset so often that night staff treated activations as routine. Zone charts did not match the building after two extensions. Three bedroom heads were ionisation types long overdue for replacement, and cause-and-effect for the kitchen gas valve had never been tested.
What we delivered: A phased migration to an addressable panel with detection kept live throughout, completed over four night shifts. Every device re-baselined, new zone charts and cause-and-effect documentation, staff training for all four shift patterns, and a quarterly Total Care contract with false alarm tracking. False alarms fell from roughly five a month to one in the following quarter.

ProgrammeAgainst the insurer deadline

Activity

Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Wk 5Wk 6Wk 7Wk 8Wk 9Wk 10Wk 11Wk 12Wk 13

Survey and redesignBeam and heat detection

Install around despatchNo operational downtime

Insurer sign-offDay 76 of 90

The building: An 85,000 sq ft distribution warehouse in Trafford Park with 13-metre eaves, whose insurer made renewal conditional on a maintained P1 property protection system within 90 days.
What we found: Point smoke detectors at full ceiling height, most heavily contaminated, several painted over during a refit, and a panel with no record of any service in four years. Life safety cover technically existed; in practice the system was blind.
What we delivered: A BS 5839-1 redesign using reflective beam detection across the racking aisles and heat detection in the charging bay, installed around despatch windows without stopping operations. Commissioning documentation went to the insurer directly, renewal was secured with two weeks to spare, and the site moved onto a Managed contract with 5am servicing slots to fit the shift pattern.

Similar building? Every one of these engagements started with the same free compliance check.