Sarum Systems installs intruder alarms across Great Dunmow, Takeley and the villages either side of the A120. We fit Ajax as standard, a wireless, app-controlled system installed to BS EN 50131, which suits new-build homes where nobody wants cables chased into new walls. We also take over alarms another company installed, including older wired panels in the town centre and on the industrial estates. The survey is free, the engineer you speak to is the one who fits it, and maintained systems get attendance within three hours.
HD & 4K camera systems with remote viewing, recording and smart motion alerts.
Wired & wireless intruder alarms, monitored and app-connected, fitted to BS EN 50131.
Keypad, fob and door-entry systems that control exactly who goes where.
Fire detection and alarm systems designed, installed and serviced to BS 5839.
New homes in Great Dunmow and Takeley are often handed over with no alarm fitted at all. Buyers on Sapphire Fields, Maplewood Grove, St Mary's Park, Prior's Edge and Trinity Green tend to move in, settle, and then realise the house sits empty all day while they commute from Stansted Airport station or drive the A120. Those homes are mostly detached and semi-detached, with garages, side gates and rear gardens backing onto open land, so the back of the house matters more than the front. The older stock is different. Period houses around the High Street, Market Place and Church End often come with outbuildings, cellars and rear yards that a standard package never accounts for. Out on Chelmsford Road, the Flitch and Hoblongs estates hold trade counters and workshops full of tools and stock, where roller shutters are the main line of defence. External fittings have to respect local rules, and we always work to the guidance published by Uttlesford District Council.
For a new-build we normally specify Grade 2 to BS EN 50131: contacts on the front, back and garage doors, pet-tolerant motion detection downstairs and an external siren where neighbours will hear it. Ajax is wireless, so the install is mostly fixing devices with very little drilling, which keeps decorated walls intact and leaves nothing for the builder to query. Everything arms and disarms from the app, so you can let a cleaner in or check the house while you are waiting at the airport. For period homes in the conservation area we keep the siren discreet and the detectors small. Commercial units on the industrial estates often need Grade 3, with shutter contacts and remote signalling, and we match the specification to what your insurer has actually asked for rather than overselling.
Great Dunmow and Takeley have taken more new housing than almost anywhere else in Uttlesford, so a lot of our work here is on homes that are only months old. Plenty of new homes are handed over with no alarm, or a bell box with nothing behind it. We fit Ajax wireless, so nothing gets chased into new plaster and it all runs from your phone.
Fire and security is all we do — from design to long-term maintenance, across every system.
An East Anglia-based team means faster surveys, quicker call-outs and engineers who know the area.
We don't disappear after install — ongoing maintenance keeps every system compliant and reliable.
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