Welcome To Essential Fire Solutions

A family run business with over thirty years’ experience, Essential Fire Solutions commit themselves to providing a professional, quality, high standard service every time including the quality of equipment, attention to detail and aftercare services carried out by our highly trained and experienced engineers.

Essential Fire Solutions have an expanding network of clients situated across the North West and wider areas of the UK. With experience across city councils, hotel groups and government departments to name a few; All of our customers receive the same amount of care and consideration, be that domestic or £multi-million clients.

Service Listing

Essential Fire Solutions Limited are able to offer bespoke fire products tailored specifically for your needs and budget. We can manage, install, commission and maintain a wide range of systems including soke, heat or flame detection, CCTV, access control, intruder detection systems, perimeter intruder detection vehicle barrier and pedestrian entry systems.

  • Conventional Fire Alarm

  • Addressable Fire Alarm

  • Wireless Fire Alarm

The type of fire alarm system which should be chosen is decided from what is appropriate for your business, this will be determined and stated in a fire risk assessment.

Types of Commercial Fire Alarm Systems

Category M systems (Manual)

These manual fire alarm systems need to be activated, for example by a person activating a break glass unit.

Category L systems (Life Protection)

  • L1 – Earliest possible fire detection

  • L2 – Fire detection in specified areas

  • L3 – Protecting paths to fire escape

  • L4 – Protection of fire escape routes

  • L5 – Localised fire protection

Category P Fire Detection Systems (Property Protection)

  • P1 – Complete fire protection for earliest possible warning

  • P2 – Fire detectors for defined parts of a building

Fire Detection Devices

Our commercial fire alarm systems are made up of a wide range of fire detection devices. Below, you will find a complete list with further information about the role they play within the fire alarm system.

  • Optical Smoke Detector: Capable of detecting the visible smoke produced by materials which smoulder or burn slowly, i.e. soft furnishings, plastic foam etc

  • Combined Optical and Heat Detector: Able to detect a wide range of fires, from smouldering to flaming types and suitable for a range of applications.

  • Ionisation detectors: Although rarely used today, these detectors are suitable for clean burning fires such as petrol, metholated spirits, or paint thinners as they are more sensitive to this type of fire than optical detectors.

  • CO and Heat Detector: Provides very early warning of slow smouldering fires. Ideal for sleeping risks and well suited to many applications where heat detection is insufficient but smoke detection causes false alarms.

  • Smoke, Heat and CO Detector: Suitable for when the environmental conditions are challenging. It uses the three sensor elements together to accurately determine the presence of fire.

  • Heat Detector – Rate of Rise: Detects abnormally high rates of rise of temperature.

  • Flame Detector: Ideal for protecting large open areas as it’s ideal for fast response to flaming fires typically caused by flammable liquids.

  • Air sampling: Actively draws air from the protected area through sampling holes in a pipe network. Sampled air is then filtered before being analysed by detectors.

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