Fire Protection

Fire Protection Services

Guardian Edge designs, installs, services and certifies fire protection across residential, commercial, industrial and public-sector property throughout the UK — fire alarms, emergency lighting, extinguishers, fire doors, passive fire protection, risk assessments and zone plans, delivered and evidenced by one accountable provider.

Detection, protection, servicing and the evidence to prove it.

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Who this is for

Responsible persons under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Property managers and managing agents running residential blocks
Facilities managers with fire systems across multiple buildings
Landlords with a portfolio of tenanted property
Commercial, retail, industrial and warehouse operators
Housing providers and public-sector estates teams

Problems it solves

A fire risk assessment has produced a list of remedial actions and nobody owns them
Servicing intervals have drifted and you cannot evidence the last visit
Different contractors hold different parts of the system, so nobody has the whole picture
Certification is missing, incomplete or sitting in an inbox rather than a register
An insurer, tenant or enforcing authority has asked for records you cannot produce quickly
A system keeps producing false alarms and no one has diagnosed why

What Guardian Edge provides

Our fire protection scope

What we provide

Fire detection and alarm systems — design, installation, commissioning and servicing
Emergency lighting — installation, monthly function testing and annual full-duration testing
Portable firefighting equipment — supply, commissioning, annual service and extended service
Fire doors — installation, inspection and remedial works
Passive fire protection — compartmentation surveys, fire stopping and remediation
Fire risk assessments and fire zone plans
Remedial works arising from any of the above, priced and completed by the same team

Typical scope

Single properties through to national multi-site portfolios
New installations, system extensions, takeovers and replacement of legacy panels
Planned servicing on a scheduled calendar with reminders before each visit
Reactive attendance for faults, activations and system failures
Remedial works following a fire risk assessment, whoever produced it
Certification, test records and asset registers issued after every visit

Before we price anything

Inspection & survey process

01
Understand the building
Use, occupancy, sleeping risk, height, means of escape and any existing fire strategy or risk assessment.
02
Survey the existing provision
What is installed, what category it was designed to, its condition, and where coverage falls short of the risk.
03
Identify the gap
We separate what is a statutory shortfall from what is a British Standard recommendation and what is our own advice — so you can prioritise honestly.
04
Report and price
A written position with itemised costs, sequenced so the highest-risk items are addressed first.

On site

How the work is delivered

01
Programme agreed
Dates, access arrangements, isolation requirements and any need to work outside occupied hours.
02
Works carried out
By directly managed engineers or vetted fire specialists, with the site kept safe and usable throughout.
03
Commissioning and testing
Full functional testing, cause-and-effect verification where applicable, and demonstration to your site team.
04
Certification issued
Commissioning certificates, test records and an updated asset register — sent, not left in a van.
05
Handed to a service schedule
The system enters a planned servicing calendar so the next visit is booked before it is due.

Compliance

What the rules actually require

In England and Wales, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 places the duty on the 'responsible person' for almost all non-domestic premises and the common parts of multi-occupied residential buildings.
Since 1 October 2023, section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022 requires responsible persons to record their fire risk assessment in full, regardless of the size of the premises.
The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 add duties in multi-occupied residential buildings — including quarterly checks of communal fire doors and annual checks of flat entrance doors in buildings over 11 metres.
British Standards are not law in themselves, but they are the recognised way of demonstrating that a duty has been discharged, and enforcing authorities read them that way.
Guardian Edge will tell you plainly which category any given item falls into. We do not describe a recommendation as a legal requirement in order to win work.

Standards & legislation

These are not all the same kind of obligation, and we do not present them as if they were. A statutory duty is law. A British Standard is the recognised way of demonstrating you have met one. Guidance and our own recommendations are neither.

Legal requirementRRO 2005
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
The principal fire safety duty in England and Wales. Requires a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment and appropriate general fire precautions.
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Legal requirementFire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
Duties in multi-occupied residential buildings
Includes quarterly communal fire door checks and annual flat entrance door checks in buildings over 11m, plus information duties to residents and fire and rescue services.
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British StandardBS 5839-1
Fire detection and alarm systems for buildings — non-domestic
Design, installation, commissioning and maintenance. Recommends at least two service visits in any twelve-month period.
British StandardBS 5266-1
Emergency lighting — code of practice
Recommends a monthly short-duration function test and an annual full rated duration test, both recorded.
British StandardBS 5306-3
Commissioning and maintenance of portable fire extinguishers
Recommends an annual basic service, with extended service and overhaul at longer intervals depending on extinguisher type.

Ongoing support

Planned, reactive and multi-site.

Most providers do one of these well. The value of a single provider is that the schedule, the emergency and the portfolio all sit in the same place.

Planned maintenance

A servicing calendar covering every fire asset on every site you hold
Reminders issued before a service falls due, not after it has lapsed
Consistent engineers who get to know the building and its quirks
One consolidated compliance position across the whole portfolio

Reactive support

24-hour emergency attendance for activations, faults and system failures
Fault diagnosis on legacy and third-party systems, not only our own installations
Temporary measures where a system cannot be restored the same day
Remedial works quoted from the attendance, without a second survey visit

Multi-site & national portfolios

One instruction covers every site, whatever the postcode
A single compliance register rather than a folder per building
Consistent documentation format across the estate
One contact who knows your portfolio rather than a call centre queue

Fire protection fails at the joins. The alarm is serviced by one company, the extinguishers by another, the emergency lighting by whoever fitted it, and the remedial actions from the fire risk assessment sit with nobody at all. When an enforcing authority asks a straight question, the answer takes a fortnight to assemble.

Guardian Edge holds the whole picture. One provider, one register, one accountable contact — and every visit leaves behind the evidence that it happened.

Procurement, simplified

What happens next?

01
Tell us what you need
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.
02
We assess the requirement
We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.
03
You receive a clear quotation
Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.
04
We arrange attendance
A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.
05
Works are completed
Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.
06
Evidence is supplied
Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.

Answers

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How often should a commercial fire alarm system be serviced?

BS 5839-1 recommends at least two service visits in any twelve-month period for non-domestic systems, with the interval between visits not exceeding six months. Larger or higher-risk systems are often serviced quarterly. The standard is a recommendation rather than a statute, but it is the recognised means of showing that the system has been properly maintained under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

Who is the 'responsible person' for fire safety?

In most workplaces it is the employer. In other premises it is whoever has control — the owner, the occupier, or the managing agent, depending on the arrangements. In multi-occupied residential buildings the responsible person is usually the freeholder or managing agent for the common parts. More than one person can hold the duty at the same time, in which case they must co-operate.

Does Guardian Edge carry out the remedial actions from a fire risk assessment we already have?

Yes, and we do not require you to commission a new assessment first. Send us the report and we will price the actions in it, tell you which are statutory shortfalls and which are recommendations, and complete the works with certification supplied.

Get a quotation for fire protection.

One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough for us to start — and we will tell you plainly whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.

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