Property Security
Intruder Alarm Installation
Guardian Edge installs and maintains intruder detection and hold-up alarm systems across the UK. Systems are graded to BS EN 50131 against the risk and any insurer requirement, and configured around how the building is actually used — because an alarm that people work around is not protecting anything.
Graded to what your insurer requires, configured to what your site actually does.
Who this is for
- Commercial premises with insurer-specified alarm requirements
- Retail, industrial and warehouse operators
- Managing agents securing communal plant and store areas
- Owners of high-value or high-risk premises
Problems it solves
- The insurer has specified a grade the current system does not meet
- The system is unset most nights because setting it is too awkward
- False activations have made everyone stop responding
- Areas have been added to the building but not to the system
- The monitoring contract renewed automatically and nobody knows what it covers
What Guardian Edge provides
Our intruder alarm installation scope
What we provide
- Wired, wireless and hybrid systems graded to BS EN 50131
- Movement, door contact, vibration, glass-break and beam detection
- Hold-up devices and panic alarms
- Multi-area part-setting so the building can be secured in sections
- Monitoring options — audible only, digital communicator, dual path signalling
- Integration with access control and CCTV where useful
Typical scope
- Offices, retail, industrial and warehouse premises
- Residential communal plant, bike stores and roof access
- Vacant and part-occupied buildings
Before we price anything
Inspection & survey process
- 01
Establish the requirement
Insurer conditions, the risk being protected, and any grade specified in the policy schedule.
- 02
Understand how the building is used
Who is last out, who is first in, which areas need to stay live, and where a false activation is most likely.
- 03
Design detection
Coverage for the actual routes an intruder would take, not simply a detector in every room.
On site
How the work is delivered
- 01
Install and configure
Devices, panel, signalling and part-set areas built to the agreed design.
- 02
Commission and walk-test
Every device walk-tested, timings set and signalling proven end to end.
- 03
Train users
Setting, unsetting, part-setting and what to do on an activation — with a written user guide.
Compliance
What the rules actually require
- BS EN 50131 grades systems from 1 to 4 by the level of intruder capability they are designed to resist. Insurers usually specify a grade, and installing below it can affect a claim.
- Where a system is connected to a police response, police forces operate a unique reference number scheme and withdraw response after repeated false calls. Reducing false activations is a compliance matter, not just an annoyance.
- Systems requiring police response must be installed and maintained to the relevant scheme requirements. We will state plainly whether a proposed system meets them.
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.
- British StandardBS EN 50131
Alarm systems — intrusion and hold-up systems
Defines system grades 1 to 4 and the design, installation and maintenance requirements for each.
- British StandardBS 8243
Design and installation of systems designed to generate confirmed alarm conditions
Relevant where a system is intended to attract police response, which depends on confirmed activation.
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
- Annual or six-monthly maintenance depending on grade and monitoring
- Battery replacement programmed rather than reactive
- User list and code review as staff change
Reactive support
- 24-hour attendance after an activation or a system failure
- False alarm investigation with a written cause and remedy
Multi-site & national portfolios
- One maintenance contract across every alarmed site
- Consistent grading and configuration standard across the estate
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.
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Locations covered
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Borough of Bolton
- Borough of Bury
- Borough of Halton
- Borough of Oldham
- Borough of Rochdale
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Get a quotation for intruder alarm installation.
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.