The holidays are busy periods for us and this year has been no exception, whilst the schools are out we have been in and fitted radio fire alarms in several schools, with timescales shorter than you would expect. Read the rest of this entry »
When sites are new, much is made of the testing and commissioning phase of the development, the consultant and building users get involved and much checking and double checking is done.
The jobs are handed over and the manuals and drawings turn up for the building user to start the task of dealing with the inevitable hiccups;
so the building is now 10 years old; Read the rest of this entry »
Fire alarm systems are meant to be seen and not heard, that is unless you need them. 
Recently we have found that we have been carrying out more audibility tests upon systems installed in the last 10-15 years and found without exception that they have failed the audibility test. It seems that within the history of our industry, the sound levels of systems were not paid the attention that they now get.
