Sarum Systems designs, installs, commissions and maintains fire alarm systems across Great Dunmow, Takeley and the surrounding villages. We work with commercial units, shops with flats above, schools, HMOs, care settings and landlords, using Apollo detection with Kentec and Advanced panels. If you are the responsible person for a building, we design a system to match your fire risk assessment, take over an existing panel where it makes sense, and keep it serviced to BS 5839. Maintained systems get an engineer 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.
Fire safety in Great Dunmow has a lot to do with old buildings. Many of the shops, pubs and offices along the High Street, Market Place and North Street are listed, often with flats, offices or storage above the ground floor. That combination is exactly where an interlinked system and a clear escape strategy matter most, and where cable routes have to respect historic fabric. Beyond the centre, the industrial estates on Chelmsford Road hold workshops, trade counters and storage that sit unoccupied overnight and at weekends. The town's growth adds new care and education buildings, with a care home and primary schools in the approved Smiths Farm and Woodside Way schemes. In Takeley and on the airport side, business centres and hospitality sites see tenants come and go, and a new occupier can easily inherit a panel nobody has serviced since the last one left. Fire safety in Great Dunmow is enforced by Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, and we design and document every system so it stands up to their inspection.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the responsible person for a commercial building, or for the common parts of flats and HMOs, has to make sure fire precautions are suitable and maintained. In practice that starts with your fire risk assessment, which sets the system category: L1 to L5 for life protection, or P1 and P2 for property. For a shop with a flat above on the High Street, that usually means detection in the shop and on the shared escape route, linked to warning in the flat. HMOs and converted houses are designed to BS 5839-6, often Grade D1, or Grade A in larger layouts. Commercial systems fall under BS 5839-1, which recommends inspection and servicing at intervals of no more than six months. We keep the logbook, test records and certificates in order so an inspection is straightforward.
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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