Fire safety · Greater Manchester
System upgrades and remedial works
Closing the gap between what the audit found and what the building needs: panel replacements, coverage extensions and risk assessment actions, priced fixed and certificated when done.
The service
Findings are only useful once they are closed
Every fire risk assessment, service visit and enforcement letter produces actions. Our remedials service exists so those actions get closed instead of rolling forward through three years of reports. Work is priced fixed from the finding, scheduled around your operation, and evidenced with certificates and photographs in your pack.
Upgrades follow the same discipline. Ageing panels are replaced with modern addressable equivalents, usually reusing compliant wiring to keep cost and disruption down. Coverage extensions, a converted mezzanine, a new sleeping floor, a changed layout, are designed against BS 5839-1 rather than bolted on.
Because remedials are quoted by the firm that found them, there is no re-survey fee and no gap between diagnosis and fix. And if you want a second opinion on our own findings, the pack gives any competitor everything they need to quote against us. We are comfortable with that.
From enquiry to certificate
No sales visit and no three-week wait to find out what it costs. Tell us your deadline and the dates are planned back from it.
Form or phone. We ask for the postcode, the premises type and any deadline you are working to.
An engineer walks the building, counts the devices, checks the panel and the logbook, and notes what is missing.
A written figure for the contract, plus a separate price for anything that needs putting right first.
Certificate, logbook entries and priced defects, emailed to you within 48 hours.
Common questions
Do I have to do everything a fire risk assessment recommends?
You must address the significant findings. The action plan’s priorities tell you what is legally necessary now versus advisable over time.
Urgent items relate to life safety and should not wait for budget cycles. Planned items can be programmed sensibly. What you cannot do is file the report: an unactioned assessment is treated by enforcement officers as evidence you knew and did nothing.
When should a fire alarm panel be replaced?
When parts and support are no longer available, when faults recur despite servicing, or when the building has outgrown the system’s category.
Age alone is not the trigger; supportability is. Many 15-year-old panels are fine. When replacement is due, migrating to an addressable system usually pays for itself in faster fault-finding and fewer false alarms.
Can upgrades happen while the building stays occupied?
Yes. We phase the work so detection stays live, and switch over zone by zone.
Occupied-building work is the norm, not the exception: offices, care settings and hotels cannot decant for a fire alarm project. Cause-and-effect testing is done out of hours so alarms do not disrupt the day.
Live panel replacement in a 42-bed care home
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.
Better bundled: this service costs less and works harder inside a planned maintenance contract covering alarm, lighting, extinguishers and risk assessment together.
Get a contract priceUpgrades and remedials questions
Still unsure? Call 07703 295654 and ask an engineer directly.
When does a fire alarm need upgrading rather than repairing?
When spares are no longer available, when the category no longer matches what your fire risk assessment calls for, when the panel cannot support the devices the building now needs, or when the false alarm rate cannot be engineered down. We tell you which applies and price both options.
What are remedial works on a fire alarm?
The defects a service visit or fire risk assessment records, each with a code and a price: a corroded call point, a detector in the wrong place, an unsupported cable, a missing zone chart, an interface that does not release a door on alarm. Left open, they roll forward into the next report and the one after that.
Can a system be upgraded in stages?
Usually yes. Panels, loops and devices can often be replaced in a planned sequence so the cost spreads across budget years while detection stays live throughout. We set out what each stage buys you in compliance terms, so you are not paying for a phase that changes nothing.
Will an upgrade mean closing the building?
Almost never. Work is planned around occupancy, the existing system stays live until the new one is commissioned, and any window of reduced cover is agreed with you in writing beforehand rather than discovered on the day.