Fire damper testing in Upton, Slough

Landlords, agents and facilities managers

If you look after several sites, we can schedule visits across all of them on one quote. Every building has its own written report, so each one has its own record.

The Fire Safety Order 2005 puts the duty to manage fire risk on the responsible person, which may be the employer, owner, landlord, FM or managing agent. With shared responsibility, good records help everyone.

Fire dampers in Upton buildings

The FSA’s food hygiene register lists about 45 schools, colleges and universities, about 22 hospitals, care homes and childcare premises and about 10 hotels and B&Bs with registered kitchens or food service in Upton and the streets around it, up to about 1.5 miles out. Schools, care settings and hotels are the kind of buildings where fire dampers are commonly found. Upton sits within the area of Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service. Under the Fire Safety Order, the responsible person has to keep fire safety systems, dampers included, in working order, and the fire authority enforces that in most non-domestic premises. Upton’s nearest hospital, Upton Hospital, is about within half a mile north-west. A hospital is the kind of building where dampers sit on every floor, and clinics, surgeries and care homes need the same annual testing for any they have.

School buildings such as St Mary's Church of England Primary School are usually tested in the holidays, wherever they have dampers. Upton Hospital, about less than half a mile north-west of Upton, is the kind of building where dampers protect every compartment; smaller care sites need the same annual tests.

Upton is about 1 mile south-east of Slough, in Slough. Upton gets the same approach as every site we work on: diagnosis first, a fixed price, out-of-hours working where necessary and a written report with pictures. Across Slough, we cover 31 places, and Upton is one of them. We also work in Reading, around 17 miles away.

Here we cover the SL1, SL3 and SL2 postcode area for fire damper testing. If you need fire damper testing at premises on Mere Road, Upton Road and High Street or a nearby road, our technicians can take on the work. Main roads around Upton include the M4 and A332, so getting to you is simple for fire damper testing. Neighbouring places we cover for fire damper testing include Middlegreen (2 miles east), Langley (2 miles east), George Green (2 miles north-east), Wexham Court (2 miles north) and Wexham Street (3 miles north). Larger places within reach include Britwell (3 miles north-west), Burnham (3 miles north-west), Stoke Poges (3 miles north), Huntercombe (3 miles north-west), Farnham Common (4 miles north) and Farnham Royal (3 miles north-west). Upton is among the bigger places we cover in Slough for fire damper testing.

What’s near Upton

Around Upton, our work takes us to kitchens and buildings near The Red Cow Public House, Upton Court Grammar School and Long Close School. Upton’s nearest station is Slough station, roughly 0.6 miles north of the centre. Nearby you will also find Windsor Castle (1.5 miles south-west) and Museum of Eton Life (1.2 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Stoke Common and Taplow Lake.