Fire damper inspection in Smithfield

Staff cleaning versus specialist work

For ventilation and air handling systems, in-house care is mostly about checks: clear grilles, a log of filter changes and reporting anything odd. The inside of ducts and units needs 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.

For landlords and multi-site operators

Whether it’s one building or many, the standard is the same: the system surveyed, the price fixed, the visit fitted around trading and everything written up afterwards.

Running several sites is easier with one contractor. We work across London and the South East, so visits at different addresses can be planned together and kept to a regular schedule.

Fire damper testing in Smithfield: local notes

There are about 86 schools, colleges and universities, about 72 hospitals, care homes and childcare premises and about 211 hotels, B&Bs and guest houses on the FSA’s food hygiene register within roughly a mile and a half of the centre of Smithfield. 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. Finsbury Health Centre is the nearest hospital, about 0.5 miles north-west of Smithfield. Hospitals are a good example of a building with fire dampers across many floors and departments. Smithfield sits within the area of London Fire Brigade. When a fire safety officer audits a non-domestic building, maintenance of systems like dampers can come up.

Hospitals such as Finsbury Health Centre, about 0.5 miles north-west, are a good example of buildings with dampers on many floors; if you manage a clinic, surgery or care home near Smithfield, the same annual testing applies. Wherever there are offices above shops, near Farringdon station or elsewhere in Smithfield, ductwork may cross fire-resisting floors, and any dampers need testing.

Smithfield is about 1 mile north of London, in Greater London. From the centre of Smithfield to the outskirts, we cover fire damper testing for every kind of premises, from a single unit to a large public building. Smithfield is one of 764 places in Greater London where we work for commercial clients.

Every address in EC1V, EC1P and EC1R is within our area for fire damper testing, from the main roads to the quietest streets. That includes premises on Oat Lane, Shoe Lane and Long Lane and nearby roads. Smithfield sits on or near the A1 and A4, which makes travel easy for fire damper testing. If your site is just outside Smithfield, we cover Farringdon (1 mile north), Blackfriars (1 mile south), Holborn (1 mile west), Temple Bar (1 mile south-west) and Clerkenwell (1 mile north). Further out, we also cover Kensington (4 miles west), Walthamstow (6 miles north-east), Hampstead (4 miles north-west), Ruislip (14 miles west), Brompton (3 miles south-west) and Stockwell (4 miles south).

Near you in Smithfield

Typical jobs here are in premises near London Nautical School, Barts Health Archives and St Alban's Church of England Primary School and the streets around them. Also close by are St Mary-at-Hill (1 mile south-east), Oriole pub (less than half a mile south-west) and Postman's Park (within half a mile south-east). Smithfield has its own railway station: Farringdon station. A little further out are Montfichet's Tower (under half a mile south) and Postal Museum (within half a mile south-east). Green spaces nearby include Ludgate Hill and St. James's Park Lake.