Dampers
Ensuring Compliance, Quality and Safety are at the heart of everything we do.
THE IMPORTANCE OF INSPECTING & TESTING FIRE DAMPERS
The key to passive fire protection is to contain the fire to a particular compartment or room, giving occupants enough time to escape and the fire service enough time to enter the building and tackle the fire. Designed to prevent the fire from spreading through air handling ductwork, fire dampers are one of the key fire safety products on your premises.
The air handling ductwork in your buildings, where the dampers are installed, is commonly above ceilings or in riser spaces, mostly out of sight. This is why it's key to ensure you have an accurate damper asset register and plan in inspection and testing works annually as a minimum to ensure your buildings remain compliant and safe.
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM A FIRE DAMPER INSPECTION
Checkmate Fire specialise in the inspection and testing of fire dampers.
This includes identifying where dampers are, and should be, located as the air handling ductwork crosses fire compartments, assessing the condition of the damper and its installation into the fire wall, testing the effectiveness of the damper mechanism, and cleaning the damper itself.
We have a breadth of experience across many sectors, from busy commercial areas, the well-used corridors of hospitals, to the vulnerabilities of social housing, with 90% of our work taking place in occupied buildings. Our care and attention to both users and residents is exceptional, working with meticulous diligence to reduce disruption as much as possible.
All our inspections are fully work-programmed with client stakeholders. Our trained damper inspectors methodically work through a building, utilising the latest technology and software to manage inspections on-site and record the data in real time. We capture the essential details and condition of damper, creating a database for future ongoing inspections.
Areas of non-compliance are visually highlighted in a way that allows organisations to prioritise maintenance activity and expenditure. This is primarily to accommodate budget constraints, while demonstrating an understanding of the nature and scale of the problem.
Our inspection report contains a tailored damper asset register, as required by Regulatory Reform Order (RRO), and records the condition of the damper and its installation, and any remedial actions required to make the installation compliant. This is a unique system that allows a robust and highly cost-effective maintenance plan to be developed and managed by all internal stakeholders for the life-cycle of the building. This ensures fire compliance can not only be achieved, but also maintained and recorded to satisfy Fire Service Enforcement Officers (FSEO), building control and other external bodies
THE LATEST RE-ID TAGGING
Checkmate Fire use electronic surveys/works records and asset management recording to provide a unique reference for each fire damper, which, alongside the location plans, encourages the physical numbering of assets to assist in their identification and long-term cost-effective maintenance.
Our reports are different, we really do outline the way forward, not just detailing defects, but highlighting what the practical next steps are in order, to make the fire damper installation compliant. We can even provide full costs alongside your report, should you require it, for remediation of any defects found.
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