City of Westminster fire damper testing

Why it’s worth doing now in City of Westminster

If a damper cannot close, the wall it sits in has a hole in it during a fire. Everything else about the compartment can be right and the duct still lets it down. It’s far better to find that out on a test than in a fire. Every month a London system goes without attention adds to what has to be done later.

One small site or a whole estate, the quote is built the same way: what needs doing, how we get to it and when. The price is fixed before work begins.

Why us?

• Every job surveyed first
• Out-of-hours work and a 24/7 emergency line
• Photo reports with every job
• Full insurance on every job

Take a look at our cost guide and our accreditations.

Multi-site and managed buildings

The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, and that can be the employer, the owner, a landlord, a facilities manager or a managing agent. Where responsibility is shared, records matter even more.

Managing agents often deal with us directly. Tell us the site, the work and the access arrangements and we’ll come back with a fixed quote.

In-house cleaning or a specialist?

Some jobs should never be done in-house: entering ducts, working on fans, testing dampers and taking grease readings need training, the right equipment and safe access. Leave those to us.

When your team notices a problem between visits, such as dripping grease, a noisy fan, a smell or a filter that will not come clean, they should report it rather than try to fix it. We can diagnose it and quote.

What fire damper testing looks like in City of Westminster

Going by the FSA’s register, there are about 78 schools, colleges and universities, about 27 caring premises (care homes, nurseries and hospitals) and about 280 hotels and guest houses serving food across City of Westminster and its immediate surroundings (about a mile and a half). Buildings like these often have ducted ventilation, and wherever a duct crosses a fire-resisting wall or floor there should be a damper, tested at least once a year. Managed London buildings normally need damper testing booked through the agent, often out of hours. Fire safety in City of Westminster falls to London Fire Brigade. In most workplaces and other non-domestic buildings, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.

If you manage offices, shops or flats near Bond Street station, the ductwork in them may pass through fire-resisting walls and floors, and any dampers need testing at least once a year. School buildings such as St Vincent's Catholic Primary School are typically tested in the holidays, wherever they have dampers. Handel Hendrix House, about 0.3 miles east, is one of the historic houses near City of Westminster, and older buildings converted to new uses often have ventilation added later.

City of Westminster is about 3 miles west of London, in Greater London. From the centre of City of Westminster to the outskirts, we cover fire damper testing for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. City of Westminster is one of 764 places in Greater London we cover for fire damper testing.

Postcode districts we cover here for fire damper testing: W2, NW8, W9 and SW1V. Fire damper testing is available to premises on Portman Square, Grosvenor Square and Cavendish Square and the roads around them. You’ll find City of Westminster on the A4 and A5, which makes it straightforward for our technicians to reach for fire damper testing. If your site is just outside City of Westminster, we cover Marylebone (1 mile north-east), Mayfair (1 mile south-east), Tyburn (1 mile west), Burlington Estate (1 mile south-east) and Connaught Village (1 mile west). Larger places within reach include London (3 miles south-east), Shoreditch (3 miles east), Walthamstow (7 miles north-east), Hoxton (3 miles north-east), Whitechapel (4 miles east) and Hampstead (3 miles north-west). As one of the bigger places in Greater London, City of Westminster has commercial sites of every size, all within our area for fire damper testing.

What’s near City of Westminster

In City of Westminster, that means kitchens and buildings near LITE Regal International School, Royal Society of Medicine Library and Devonshire Arms, among other places. Nearby too are The St Marylebone CofE School (0.5 miles north) and Hyde Park (0.6 miles south-west). There’s a railway station in City of Westminster itself: Bond Street station. Other landmarks nearby include Dunhill Museum & Archive (less than half a mile north) and Kingly Court (0.6 miles east). Open spaces near City of Westminster include Serpentine and Primrose Hill.