Sarum Systems designs, installs and maintains fire alarms across Hertford, for offices and practices in the town centre, schools, pubs and restaurants with rooms above, converted flats, care settings and industrial units in the Mead Lane area. We fit Apollo detection with Kentec and Advanced panels, take over systems another company put in and service them to BS 5839-1. Before we recommend anything, we read your fire risk assessment. The survey is free, and maintained systems 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.
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service is clear that it will not carry out a fire risk assessment for you, because that duty sits with the responsible person, and that a full written copy should be kept on the premises. In Hertford, that assessment is often the missing piece. The county town has a lot of old public and commercial buildings, from Shire Hall of 1779 to the Quaker Meeting House on Railway Street, in use since 1670, and many smaller listed shops and offices around them, where the alarm arrived decades after the building and was extended piecemeal. Schools are a big share of the work too: Simon Balle runs as an all-through school, with primary and secondary pupils on one site, alongside Richard Hale and The Sele School. By Hertford East station, the Mead Lane industrial area off Ware Road has light manufacturing and trade units. Fire safety in Hertford is enforced by Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, and we design and document every system so it stands up to their inspection.
Hertford's riverside pubs and restaurants often have letting rooms or a manager's flat upstairs, which turns a daytime business into a sleeping risk at night. The fire risk assessment will usually push those buildings to a higher category of detection than the trading floor alone would need, with the kitchen on heat detection and the escape stair covered. For all-through and secondary schools, we zone by building and floor so staff at the panel can send the right pupils out of the right door, and we check sounders are audible in every classroom, hall and toilet block. Houses on the Bengeo side that have been split into flats need the common parts assessed under the Fire Safety Order, and a clear line between the communal system and each flat's own BS 5839-6 alarms.
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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