Sarum Systems designs, installs and services fire alarms across Brentwood and Shenfield, for schools, medical and dental practices, offices, care settings, units on Hutton Trading Estate and the flats that sit above so many High Street shops. We fit Apollo detection on Kentec and Advanced panels, take over systems another installer put in, and keep them serviced to BS 5839-1. The survey is free, we read your fire risk assessment before recommending anything, and maintained systems get an engineer on site 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.
Brentwood's centre is older than it looks from the car. The High Street still has buildings like the former White Hart coaching inn, and plenty of shops along it have a floor or two of flats or offices above, reached by a separate street door or, worse, through the back of the shop. Those mixed buildings are where fire detection most often falls between two owners. Further out, Warley has former barracks buildings put to new uses, including Marillac Hospital in what was the officers' mess, and conversions like that rarely have a fire alarm designed for the layout they have now. Education is the other big demand. Brentwood School dates from 1557, and school sites here tend to mix original buildings with later blocks. Hutton Trading Estate, off Wash Road, adds small industrial units with offices built in. Fire safety in Brentwood is enforced by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, and we design and document every system so it stands up to their inspection.
The flat above a shop is the job we see most in Brentwood and the one most often done wrong. If the only way out of the flat passes through or beside the shop, the risk assessment will usually call for detection in the shop that warns the flat, not just a battery smoke alarm on the landing. We design the shop and the flat as one fire strategy, BS 5839-1 for the commercial part and BS 5839-6 for the dwelling, with the link between them written down. For converted buildings around Warley we start from the current floor plan, not whatever suited the old use. On school sites we zone each block separately so whoever is at the panel knows which building to clear, and fob-controlled doors on escape routes release the moment the alarm sounds.
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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