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Council authorities generally keep a close eye on homes that are at risk of fire, especially where housing estates are concerned with people living close to one another. A lot of homes put up in the 1970s on these estates did not have the same level of safety that is expected and put in place […]

The UK Fire & Rescue services have recently made fantastic progress towards the adoption of Automatic Fire Sprinklers and maintaining this as the most effective line of defence for property and loss of life due to fire. The British Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association (BAFSA) acknowledge and support this wholeheartedly. Suffolk County Councillor, Colin Spence who […]

The importance of fitting a home fire sprinkler system has been further brought to light by the recent legislation the Welsh Assembly implemented which means any new build or converted house will have to have a domestic or home sprinkler system fitted by law. In fact, Wales is the only country in the world to […]

Fire sprinklers are important We have been hearing more and more reports of fires in the UK that have either been stopped in their tracks before having a chance to escalate devouring property, and business assets and causing risk to human life. Most of these fires have been at commercial or business properties, where there […]

Over the years, we have installed literally ‘hundreds’ of domestic sprinklers and yet the take-up rate for a maintenance contract which includes an annual test is extremely low. How important is a yearly test for a mains system? A domestic sprinkler system connected to a mains water supply needs very little maintenance however there are […]

Make sure you use a local company: sometimes it is tempting to instruct a company which is based on the other side of the country to install the system just because their price is cheaper than a local company. This is never a good idea because their backup service is never going to be as […]