Staying Compliant, Staying Safe
Fire Inspections & Service from BTV Systems
Your building’s fire alarm system is the first line of defense in the event of a fire. If even one component of your system – sensor, pull handle, strobe, annunciator, or another component – is performing at less than its optimum, your employees, customers, or residents could be in grave danger should a fire break out.
Commercial, industrial, and multifamily building owners are required to submit to annual fire inspections to ensure that the employees, customers, or families who occupy them will be given adequate and timely warning in the event of a fire. Failure to properly inspect and maintain your facility’s fire alarm system can lead to a host of negative outcomes: fines, legal penalties, or – worst of all – injuries or death.
Full-Service Fire Inspections
Whether BTV installed your facility’s fire protection system or not, our team is ready to perform a full system inspection to alert you to any equipment that’s damaged, past due for replacement, or otherwise unable to perform its job. We take the time to inspect every single component, from end to end, and provide you with a detailed, actionable report.
Our Process
Businesses, industries, schools, healthcare facilities, and multifamily housing properties have relied on BTV to provide quality inspection services for years. When you reach out to BTV Systems for a fire inspection:
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Scheduling
We’ll schedule your inspection to best fit into your operations. If you want your inspection to fall outside of business hours to reduce impacts on your workflows or to keep our team out of your customers’ ways, we’re happy to schedule your service for a late evening, an early morning, or even the middle of the night.
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Notification Systems Test
When we arrive at your facility, our first step will be to simulate an activation to test every strobe, horn, emergency light, loudspeaker, and other notification device in your facility. If any components are out of order, we’ll make detailed notes and take photos to include in your inspection report.
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Activation Systems Test
Next, we’ll disable your notification systems to keep things quiet while we test every piece of activation hardware: pull handles, smoke detectors, and other sensors. If a sensor is out of spec, a pull handle is not closing correctly, or any other component isn’t up to the job, it will be noted and photographed for your inspection report.
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Inspection Report
After every system component and overall system function has been thoroughly and rigorously tested, we’ll use our reporting system, powered by buildringreports.com, to prepare a detailed, actionable report containing:
- A status report on your system as a whole and on each subsystem
- Detailed information on any damaged or otherwise out-of-service component, with accompanying photographs
- Recommended replacements for damaged equipment, along with pricing information.
You can present your inspection report to your fire alarm system provider for action, or BTV will be happy to provide you with an estimate and perform the service ourselves.
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Follow-up
After we present you with your report, we’ll make a note to follow up with you in a few months with a reminder to schedule your next annual inspection. If you choose BTV to perform your repair services, we’ll stay in touch with you to make sure your new equipment is performing to your specifications.
Any Equipment, Any Time
Our trained team is ready to inspect and provide service for all manufacturers’ fire equipment, whether you purchased it through BTV or not.
Our inspections don’t require you to purchase a service or other contract from BTV. We will happily provide one-off inspections for any facility in our service area!
BTV Systems only provides inspection services for the electronic components of an alarm system. We do not provide inspection or service of fire extinguishers, sprinkler systems, flame curtains, or other fire suppression systems.