A Grade A LD2 system designed around how your HMO actually works, corridor heads where they need to be, sounders that wake people from sleeping risk, paperwork your licensing officer signs first time.
Specialist fire detection and alarm systems for Houses in Multiple Occupation, designed to BS 5839-6 with the grade and category dictated by the property's licensing conditions and fire risk assessment.
Private HMO landlords, student accommodation operators, supported housing providers, and letting agents managing licensed HMO portfolios across South Wales.
Before a new HMO licence application, ahead of a renewal, when adding bedrooms, after a change of use, or following an enforcement notice from the local authority.
HMOs combine sleeping occupants, shared escape routes and unfamiliar layouts, the highest-risk residential category. The wrong system kills people and ends portfolios.
Licensing officers do not negotiate. A non-compliant HMO can be served prohibition, the rent stops, and Rent Repayment Orders can apply for up to 12 months of rental income.
We attend with your fire risk assessment in hand and confirm the grade and category required for your specific licence area.
Device schedule, sounder dB calculation, zoning and cause-and-effect, supplied in writing with a fixed price.
Cabling concealed wherever possible, communal area work scheduled around tenants, mains spurs from the landlord's supply, not a tenant meter.
Dec readings taken at every bed-head, full system test, panel labelled by room, four BS 5839 certificates issued.
Compliance pack formatted for direct submission to Cardiff, Newport, Swansea or your local licensing scheme.
Designed to the licensing scheme, not the bare minimum standard.
Minimal disruption, no overnight loss of detection, communal areas back in service same day.
Per-bedroom pricing for multi-property landlords with consolidated certificates.
Standardised on Hochiki/Kentec so servicing across your portfolio uses common spares.
Digital certificates filed to a portal, produce them in 30 seconds when the licensing officer asks.
Specification matched to insurer requirements, not just the minimum legal standard.
HMO fire alarm requirements vary by local authority, by article 4 direction, and by individual licence conditions. The notes below reflect the schemes we work with across South Wales most often.
Cardiff Council requires Grade A LD2 minimum for licensed HMOs, with category L2 for higher-risk layouts. Sounders at bed-head must achieve 75 dB. We design directly to the council's published HMO fire safety guidance.
Schemes vary, some require LD1 in three-storey or larger HMOs. We confirm at survey and never under-specify to win a job. The design pack states exactly which clause of the scheme each device satisfies.
Bedroom-by-bedroom detection, sounders sized for closed-door conditions, and where flats are involved, an interface that activates only the affected flat's sounder to avoid mass evacuation false-alarm fatigue.
We supply tenant-facing 'what to do in a fire' posters keyed to your zone plan and label panels in plain English. False-alarm management plans are part of the handover.
For supported housing with mobility or learning-disability tenants we specify vibrating pads, strobes and PIR-linked cause-and-effect, and document it for the Care Inspectorate.
Where chasing cable is restricted we specify EN 54-25 wireless systems with documented battery replacement intervals so the listing officer and the licensing officer both sign off.
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 serviceBS 5266 emergency lighting design, installation, monthly user testing and full annual discharge testing for HMOs and commercial premises across South Wales.
View serviceFree survey, fixed-price quote within 48 hours, and certified work delivered when we said we would.
Covering Cardiff, Newport & Swansea
