ADS Group services and certifies commercial fire detection and alarm systems across Kildare to I.S. 3218. Kildare is a short run from our base at Ballymount House in Dublin 24, which matters for a county where a large share of the building stock is distribution and warehousing that cannot afford a long wait on a fault. Servicing is quarterly with an annual certificate for the full system.
In a high warehouse, smoke cools and spreads sideways before it ever reaches a ceiling detector, which is why a point detector at roof level can be effectively blind to a fire at floor level. Those buildings usually need beam or aspirating detection designed for the height. The second problem is that racking changes, and the detection design does not change with it.
Kildare's residential growth has produced a lot of recently handed-over developments. The common failure is not the equipment but the paperwork: commissioning records that never reached the management company, so the first annual service has nothing to measure the system against. We reconstruct that baseline as part of taking a building on.
Where several units sit under one detection system, each tenant fit-out changes ceiling voids, partitions and sometimes the sprinkler layout. The system has to be re-proven after that work rather than assumed to still match the original design.
Full detail on the system types, the standards and the certification process is on the Fire Detection & Alarms page, and everything else we cover in the county is on the Kildare page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
