Fire Alarm Monitoring After BT Redcare: What Responsible Persons Need to Check Most Responsible Persons did not choose the signalling path on their Fire Alarm panel. An installer fitted it, a service contract covered it and for years it quietly worked. Then on 15 December 2025, BT Redcare shut down for good. And the question […]
Smoke does not wait for a fire to grow before it starts killing. According to the Home Office's detailed fire statistics for 2022/23, 259 people died in fires in England. Thirty per cent of those deaths - 77 people - were not killed by flames but by gas or smoke. They died because smoke found […]
Trusted Fire Stopping Surveys and Installation in Rayleigh We're Blake Fire & Security Systems, and we deliver fire stopping surveys and installation across Rayleigh and Essex. Our company is BM TRADA Q-Mark certified for Fire Stopping Installation, with the scheme licence held by Martin Blake, our Passive Fire Safety Manager. We map every penetration, match […]
Specialist Fire Stopping Surveys and Installation in Brentwood Blake Fire and Security Systems delivers specialist fire stopping surveys and installation across Brentwood and Essex. Fire stopping is the passive fire protection discipline that seals gaps, joints and service penetrations in fire-resisting walls, floors and ceilings to keep compartmentation intact during a fire. Our company is […]
The pattern fire and rescue officers describe is not the one most building owners expect. It rarely starts with a catastrophic fire. It starts with an enforcement notice that was never acted on. Or a Fire Alarm panel with a fault light that has been showing for months. Or Emergency Lighting that has not been […]
For years, discussion about the Building Safety Act 2022 was dominated by cladding. The images from Grenfell, the remediation debates, and the Building Safety Fund - cladding was the story. That story changed in April 2026. In the Technology and Construction Court in London, Mr Justice Constable granted two Building Liability Orders against the associated […]
Fire Protection for Business: What You Need to Know Protecting your business from fire requires more than a smoke detector on the ceiling. You have legal duties, equipment obligations and ongoing maintenance responsibilities - and the legislation that governs them is often misquoted online. This article sets out what you actually need to do, clearly […]
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