Know where you're at risk. Keep the system you have.
It sounds like the voice alarm is one more system on your list, and one that's hard to judge without specialist test equipment. Here's why it repays proper maintenance, and who you'd be working with.
Why maintain a voice alarm at all?
So you know where you are personally at risk, and how it will be removed. You carry the accountability if the system fails on the day. Maintenance done properly ends with a report that tells you where you stand: every fault with its reading, its location and, where possible, a photograph; the risk it puts you at; and what will remove it, in what order and at what cost, so you aren't left guessing.
So the system you have lasts longer. A fault found early and fixed quickly stays small: a battery, an amplifier, a single loudspeaker. Left until something gives way, the same fault spreads, and the conversation turns to replacement. Acting fast keeps the system you already own working significantly longer, and saves you the cost and upheaval of replacing it before its time.
Who will be looking after your system
Two directors run the business.
- Nigel Williams, Commercial Director.
- David Read, Operations Director.
The office in Newhaven, East Sussex, arranges every visit and every quote. Technicians attend site across London and the South East, and ships and offshore facilities along the south coast from Dover to Plymouth. That is the whole operating area by design: close enough for the response times written into each maintenance contract to be kept.
Why you can take the advice at face value
You may be wondering whether a maintainer gains from finding faults, or from telling you the system needs replacing. The testing is quoted on its own, and any repair separately afterwards, so the technician who finds a fault does not price the fix, and you can hand the findings to anyone you like. ProAudium does not bid in open tenders for major new-build installations, so there is no large project riding on the advice.
When ProAudium is the wrong call
No fire detection. No open tenders for major new-build installations; additions and new systems for existing clients, yes. No work outside London and the South East, other than ships and offshore facilities along the south coast from Dover to Plymouth, because the response times could not be kept. If you need the lowest price for one annual visit to a small system, a good local fire alarm company will look after you well.
Where do you stand today?
Would you be against finding out before anything is spent? Eight questions, and your answers come back with things you can do yourself.