When the power fails, your escape routes have three seconds to light up, and three hours to stay lit. We design, fit and certify the system that delivers exactly that.
Battery-backed emergency lighting designed to BS 5266-1, installed at escape routes, open areas, plant rooms and high-risk task areas, and tested to a documented annual schedule.
HMO landlords, commercial occupiers, offices, retail, hospitality and any premises where the public or staff need to escape if mains lighting fails.
On all licensable HMOs, after any fire risk assessment that identifies escape-route lighting as a control measure, on new fit-outs, and after a change of layout that affects escape routes.
A dark escape route turns a manageable evacuation into a crush incident. The system is cheap; the absence of it is not.
Fire and rescue officers carry a torch into your stairwell. So should your tenants, except they don't, because the building should light their way out.
Walk every escape route with the fire risk assessment open, map exit signs and high-risk task areas, identify any blackspots.
Lux-level design to BS 5266 (1 lux at escape route centre-line, 5 lux at points of emphasis), with a fitting schedule and fixed quote.
Self-contained LED fittings as standard, with addressable self-test where it pays back inside 5 years. Wired to the local landlord's lighting circuit.
First 3-hour discharge witnessed and recorded, every fitting individually labelled, BS 5266 commissioning certificate issued.
We diary the annual discharge test, run it, log results to your portal and issue the BS 5266 certificate the same day.
Designed, installed and tested to BS 5266, accepted by every UK licensing scheme we work with.
LED fittings draw under 3W each and last 50,000+ hours.
Addressable self-test fittings remove the monthly flick-test burden and pay for themselves on portfolios above ~20 fittings.
We log the date of every battery so end-of-life replacement is forecast, not a surprise after a failed discharge.
Where useful, we tie discharge testing into the fire alarm system's planned service so disruption is once per visit, not twice.
Multi-site landlords see all properties' next-due dates in one portal screen.
Emergency lighting is governed by BS 5266-1 (design and install) and BS EN 50172 (the testing regime). Below is how we apply both to the property types we work with most often.
Minimum 1 lux maintained at the centre-line of all escape routes; 5 lux at points of emphasis (stair landings, changes of direction, final exits, fire-fighting equipment, first-aid points). Open areas above 60 m² require anti-panic lighting at 0.5 lux average over the floor.
Maintained fittings stay lit at all times, useful for exit signs in hospitality and assembly buildings. Non-maintained activate only on mains failure, used for HMO escape routes and back-of-house corridors.
Self-contained is standard for HMOs and small commercial, each fitting has its own battery. Central battery suits large sites and gives 8-year-plus battery life but requires regulated rooms and quarterly inspection of the central unit.
Self-test fittings flash their own status LED monthly; addressable systems report by exception to a central panel. For HMO portfolios with 20+ fittings, addressable pays back in saved monthly inspection labour inside 5 years.
Monthly: brief function test of every fitting. Annually: full duration discharge test (3 hours for most premises) with every fitting individually verified. We carry out and certify both. Many clients handle their own weekly visual checks in between, which is common practice.
10-year fitting age, battery failure rates above 10% on annual discharge, new partition walls that change escape route geometry, or a fire risk assessment that downgrades the existing system.
Fixed-price BS 5839 fire alarm installation across Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Bristol and the wider South Wales region. Grade A–D, LD1–LD3, licensing-ready certification.
View serviceType 1–4 fire risk assessments for HMOs, blocks of flats and commercial premises across South Wales. Aligned to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and PAS 79.
View servicePortable appliance testing for HMOs, offices and commercial premises across South Wales and Bristol. Digital certificates, full asset registers, fixed pricing.
View serviceFree survey, fixed-price quote within 48 hours, and certified work delivered when we said we would.
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