Fire damper testing in Highfield, Southampton

Why it’s worth doing now in Highfield

After any fire, one of the first questions is what maintenance had been done. Damper test records are part of that answer, and they only exist if the testing happened. A quieter site near Highfield still needs its system looked after.

Several systems or sites on one quote often makes better use of the time. Tell us about everything you’d like looked at and we’ll price it together.

What you get with us

• One contact for all your sites in London and the South East
• A fixed price before any work starts
• We are fully insured
• Every job surveyed first

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Staff cleaning versus specialist work

When your team notices a problem between visits, like drips, unusual noise, smells or damaged filters, it’s best reported rather than tackled in-house. We’ll take a look and give you a fixed quote.

Staff cleaning and specialist work aren’t the same thing. Wiping filters daily and washing them weekly keeps the visible parts in order, but grease that has passed the filters is out of reach. That part needs specialist access and equipment.

Fire dampers in Highfield buildings

At about 3 miles from the coast, Highfield is close enough for sea air to matter. Near the sea, we look closely for rust on dampers serving intakes and louvres. The FSA’s food hygiene register lists about 35 schools, colleges and universities, about 50 caring premises (care homes, nurseries and hospitals) and about 16 hotels, B&Bs and guest houses with registered kitchens or food service within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Highfield. Larger buildings like these are often divided into fire compartments, with dampers where ducts pass between them. Highfield is covered by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. In most workplaces and other non-domestic buildings, it’s the fire and rescue authority that enforces the Fire Safety Order.

School buildings such as Highfield Church of England Primary School are usually tested in the holidays, wherever they have dampers. Healthcare buildings such as Royal South Hants Hospital (about 1.2 miles south) rely on fire compartments, and the dampers in them need testing at least annually. For managed buildings around St Denys station, damper testing can be booked out of hours so tenants are not disturbed.

Highfield is about 1 mile north of Southampton, in Southampton. Whatever kind of site you run in Highfield, fire damper testing is something we can help with. Visits can be booked for evenings, overnight or weekends so the site keeps running. Our Southampton coverage runs to 40 places, Highfield among them.

Every address in SO17, SO16 and SO14 is covered for fire damper testing, from busy streets to back roads. You will find streets such as Winn Road, Nile Road and The Avenue, all of which we cover for fire damper testing. Main roads around Highfield include the A3035, which makes travel easy for fire damper testing. Close by, we work in Bassett (1 mile north-west), Shirley (2 miles west), Lordswood (2 miles north-west), Freemantle (2 miles south-west) and Coxford (2 miles west). We also work in nearby towns such as Thornhill (3 miles south-east), Harefield (3 miles east), Sholing (3 miles south-east), Woolston (3 miles south), Eling (4 miles west) and Rownhams (3 miles north-west).

What’s near Highfield

Around Highfield, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton, Richard Taunton Sixth Form College and The Cowherds Inn and the streets around them. The closest station to Highfield is St Denys station, roughly 0.8 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Royal South Hants Hospital (1.2 miles south) and Marlands Shopping Centre (1.7 miles south). For a walk, there’s Netley Common.