Fire alarm servicing in Kingsclere

Kingsclere is a large Hampshire village at the foot of Watership Down, with a racehorse-training history going back to the 1860s. It's about 20 minutes south of Newbury on the A339, roughly 9.5 miles, and it shares the RG20 postcode district with our base. We already look after an art gallery in Kingsclere.

We maintain any make and take over systems from installers who have retired or stopped answering. Fully insured.

Over the county line

Kingsclere is in Basingstoke and Deane, so fire safety inspections of businesses are carried out by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue Service rather than Royal Berkshire. The duty is the same under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005: the Responsible Person must keep fire safety systems maintained, and an inspector may ask to see your fire risk assessment, fire log book and service certificates. We make sure those records are complete after every visit.

Business units

Kingsclere Park, just outside the village, has 29 self-contained business units, and Orchard Business Park is on Newbury Road. Small offices and workshops like these often have one conventional panel per unit, serviced by whoever the first tenant chose. If you've taken on a unit, check when the fire alarm was last serviced: BS 5839-1 recommends at least every six months.

The village centre

Around St Mary's Church, pubs, shops, the gallery and community buildings are mostly in older properties. Their fire alarms tend to be small systems that are easy to forget until a fault light comes on. A regular service catches flat batteries, failed sounders and tired detectors before they become a problem.

Farms, stables and rural businesses

On the downs around Kingsclere, fire alarms protect farm offices, workshops, converted barns, staff accommodation and yards. Remote sites rely more on the alarm signalling for help, so we test the link to any monitoring centre as part of the service. If yours still signals over an analogue phone line, it may stop when the line is switched off, with the move to digital due to be completed by January 2027. The usual fix is a digital communicator with a mobile network backup. Read our switch-off guide.

What each service includes

Our engineer tests a share of detectors and call points (all of them over a year), checks the panel and batteries, tests sounders, records faults, and updates your fire log book. Nothing is fitted without your approval.

• Protect: certificate within 24 hours, one callout a year included (two with three or more systems), usable in or out of hours.
• Essential: certificate within 48 hours, and callouts are pay as you go.

Our office is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm. Outside those hours, 01635 938998 reaches our 24/7 emergency line.

Switching from another company? Book a system health check first. We also cover Ecchinswell, Sydmonton, Burghclere, Wolverton, Ashford Hill and Headley. See also Newbury and Basingstoke.