Sarum Systems designs, installs and maintains fire alarm systems across Chelmsford, from offices on Springfield Business Park and units on Widford Industrial Estate to schools, care homes and blocks of flats with communal stairs. We fit Apollo detection on Kentec and Advanced panels, take over systems another company installed, and service them to BS 5839-1. Every job starts with a free survey and a look at your fire risk assessment, because that document decides what category of system the building actually needs. Maintained sites get an engineer on site within three hours of a fault.
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.
The detail that matters most in Chelmsford is what happens after the sounders go off. Essex County Fire and Rescue Service's published position is that it does not respond to calls generated by an automatic fire alarm unless a 999 call confirms a fire or signs of fire, or the building has been granted an exemption. A monitored signal on its own will not bring a fire engine. That puts the weight on your own fire procedure: someone has to check the zone, confirm, and dial 999. The panel has to make that quick, with zone charts that match the building and device text that reads 'second floor kitchen', not 'zone 4'. Offices around Springfield, the mixed warehouse and trade units at Widford, and education buildings near Anglia Ruskin's Rivermead campus all need that worked out, and the service also expects repeat false alarms to be investigated and recorded rather than ignored. Fire safety in Chelmsford is enforced by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, and we design and document every system so it stands up to their inspection.
Two Chelmsford building types cause most of the confusion. Multi-tenant offices first: when a landlord owns the panel and tenants fit out their own floors, detectors get covered, moved or left out of a new partition, and nobody updates the zone plan. We work out who is the responsible person for which part, then bring the whole system back under one log book. New flat blocks, at Beaulieu and around the station, are the second. The common parts fall under the Fire Safety Order, and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 add a duty to give residents fire safety instructions, while the flats themselves usually have their own BS 5839-6 alarms. We check the two are designed to work together, so burnt toast in one flat does not empty the whole block.
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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