Dry riser installation in Birmingham
Dry riser installation in Birmingham for towers and city centre buildings above 18 metres, tested to 12 bar with the certificate handed over.
- ISO 9001, the certification insurers look for
- Free survey, fixed price in writing, no travel charge
- Office Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm; emergency line any hour
Dry riser installation in Birmingham is mostly high-rise work: residential and build-to-rent towers across the city centre, the Jewellery Quarter and Digbeth, and the commercial buildings in the city core. Any floor more than 18 metres above fire service access needs a fire main, and below 50 metres that is usually a dry riser. We install it, test it to 12 bar and hand over the certificate. Sentry Sprinkler Protection does this work across England from its base in Kettering, ISO 9001 certified.
What a Birmingham tower needs
Above 18 metres, Approved Document B requires a fire main. Up to 50 metres that is usually a dry riser. Above it, a wet riser with its own pump and tank, because a brigade pump cannot reach that height.
Many build-to-rent towers also carry a BS 9251 sprinkler system. That is two regimes, two intervals and two sets of records from the day the building is handed over.
Planned around your programme
We are based in Kettering, 49 miles away on the M6 and A45, so Birmingham work is planned rather than spontaneous. For an installation that suits everyone.
We need a fixed layout and three to four weeks of notice to arrange materials and access, and the programme goes in the quotation.
What we install
- The riser main, routed through the building alongside the other services.
- A breeching inlet in a signed, lockable cabinet at ground level.
- A landing valve on each floor, in a cabinet or lobby as the design requires.
- An air valve at the top and a drain at the base, so the riser empties after use.
Handover, then the testing regime
Before handover the riser is charged to 12 bar and held for 15 minutes, and every landing valve is checked. From then on BS 9990 sets a six-monthly inspection and an annual pressure test.
The commonest gap we find in Birmingham is a test schedule that did not follow the building when the managing agent changed. We can take the dry riser testing in Birmingham on from day one.
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- Fire sprinkler installation in Birmingham Residential towers and industrial units: designed, installed and commissioned.
- Dry riser testing Six-monthly inspection and the annual pressure test, with the certificate your fire risk assessment asks for.
- Dry riser servicing in Birmingham
- Wet riser or dry riser: which one is in your building?
- Areas we cover Every page in this list, grouped by job.
From first call to certificate
Four steps, the same on every job.
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01Free survey
We look at the building and its records, and tell you what it is due.
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02Fixed price in writing
Every item priced line by line. No survey fee, nothing added afterwards.
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03The work, on your dates
Isolation agreed before anyone arrives, kept as short as the job takes.
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04Certificate and record
A certificate and a photographed defect list, ready for your insurer.
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Questions about dry riser installation in birmingham
Are you a dry riser installer for all of Birmingham?
Yes, B1 to B9 and the wider city. Visits are planned from Kettering. If what you need is an engineer within the hour, a Birmingham-based contractor will beat us, and we would rather say so than take the contract.
Can you install a wet riser in a tower above 50 metres?
Yes. A wet riser adds a pump set, a break tank and alarms to the pipework, and we install and maintain both types.
Do you test dry risers you did not install?
Yes. Most of the risers we test were installed by someone else. Send us the last certificate if you have it, and we will tell you where the building is in its cycle.