ADS Group services and certifies commercial fire detection and alarm systems across County Louth, including Dundalk and Drogheda, to I.S. 3218. Servicing is quarterly with an annual certificate for the full system, and we can take over and certify a system another contractor installed. Louth's M1 logistics corridor and its two large town centres bring two distinct detection problems, and they are not solved the same way.
Smoke from a fire at floor level cools as it rises and can spread sideways before reaching a ceiling detector twelve metres up. That is why high-bay buildings commonly need beam or aspirating detection rather than point detectors, and why a change in racking layout is a reason to revisit the design rather than a cosmetic change.
In Dundalk and Drogheda it is normal to find retail at ground level with offices or apartments above, on one system. If every detector evacuates the whole building, a minor activation in a shop empties the flats above at two in the morning, and within a month people stop treating the alarm as real. Correct zoning and phased cause and effect is what prevents that.
Businesses operating on both sides of the border sometimes run on documentation prepared for the other jurisdiction. The premises located here has to meet I.S. 3218, regardless of where the group is headquartered or what its head office system looks like.
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 Louth page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
