Sarum Systems designs, installs, commissions and maintains fire alarm systems across Bishop's Stortford and the Stort valley, for schools and boarding houses, care settings, HMOs, offices above shops, converted maltings and the warehouses on Woodside and Raynham Road. Kentec and Advanced panels with Apollo detection are our standard, and we take over systems another company installed. We are twenty minutes away in Harlow, so surveys are free and maintained systems carry a three hour response commitment.
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.
Sleeping risk drives a lot of fire alarm work in Bishop's Stortford. Two schools here board pupils: Bishop's Stortford College takes boarders from age seven, and Hockerill Anglo-European College on Dunmow Road is a state boarding school. A boarding house sits somewhere between a school and a care setting, with children asleep and staff on duty through the night. The town's malting heritage is another factor. The surviving Millar's maltings on South Street have been reused for leisure and light industry, and the five-storey Burtons Mill malting there was destroyed by fire in 1983. On the commercial side, Woodside Industrial Estate sits just off Dunmow Road within a few hundred metres of junction 8 of the M11, and Raynham Road has its own industrial estate, both with warehouse and trade units where storage volumes are large and occupancy changes often. Fire safety in Bishop's Stortford is enforced by Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, and we design and document every system so it stands up to their inspection.
In boarding houses the alarm has to wake children reliably and tell the staff on duty exactly where the problem is, so we design for automatic detection in bedrooms and corridors, addressable panels with clear zone text, and sounder levels checked in every room. Converted industrial buildings like the maltings often have open timber floors and voids that let smoke travel fast, so detection in roof and floor voids matters. Warehouses on Woodside and Raynham Road usually need manual call points and sounders at minimum, with beam detection in high bays where the risk assessment calls for it. Licensable HMOs in the town need a BS 5839-6 system suited to the size of the house. Fire safety in commercial premises here is enforced by Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, so keep your risk assessment, logbook and certificates ready for their inspecting officers.
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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