Every fire risk assessment ends the same way: a list of actions with your name against them. Gemini AMPM turns that list back into compliance — repairing, upgrading and certificating existing fire alarm systems so faulty detectors, tired panels and non-conformities against BS 5839-1 are resolved, evidenced and off your risk register.
Remedial works cover everything between a healthy system and a condemned one: failed detectors and sounders, obsolete or unsupported panels, coverage gaps where the building changed but the detection didn’t, batteries past their date, zone plans that no longer match the corridors they describe. These findings arrive from fire risk assessments, service-visit non-conformity reports or enforcing-officer audits, and they share one property — they stay open until someone competent closes them.
Our process is deliberately unexciting. We survey the system against the finding, confirm what the standard actually requires — assessors occasionally over- or under-call — and produce an itemised quotation ranked by risk, so life-safety defects never queue behind cosmetic ones. Then BAFE SP203-1 engineers carry out the works, test what they touched, and issue the certification that formally closes each action.
Fire alarm remedial work has a habit of crossing fire barriers — a new cable through a compartment wall, a detector relocated above a fire-rated ceiling. Fix the alarm and puncture the compartmentation, and you’ve traded one risk assessment action for another. Because Gemini AMPM delivers both disciplines, our teams fire-stop every penetration they create as part of the same visit, tested and recorded alongside the alarm works. Our passive fire protection service exists for exactly this reason.
The paperwork closes the loop. Each completed action is matched back to the original finding — assessment reference, work done, standard applied, test results — so your responsible person can hand an auditor a closed trail rather than an invoice and a shrug. If interim measures are needed while parts arrive, we document those too. Compliance is a state you can prove, and proof is what we leave behind.
The Fire Safety Order doesn’t set fixed deadlines; it expects action within a timescale proportionate to the risk, which your assessment usually indicates by priority rating. Life-safety defects — a dead panel, missing detection in sleeping areas — need action in days, sometimes with interim measures immediately. Lower-priority items can wait for a planned visit. What you cannot do is let actions sit open with no dates against them: that is what enforcing officers act on.
Yes — most remedial work we do is on other companies’ installations. As a BAFE SP203-1 registered contractor working across all the major open-protocol manufacturers, we can survey, repair and certificate systems regardless of who fitted them. Where a closed-protocol panel restricts what any third party can touch, we say so upfront and price the realistic options. Remedial work doesn’t oblige you to move your maintenance contract to us, though many clients choose to afterwards.
A completion pack that closes each finding properly: certificates for the work carried out under BAFE SP203-1, test results for every device and circuit touched, updated zone plans or drawings where anything moved, and fire-stopping records for any penetrations made through compartment lines. Each item is cross-referenced to the originating risk assessment action or non-conformity report. Filed in your fire safety logbook, it gives your responsible person demonstrable evidence that the actions were competently closed.
A named engineer, not a call centre, comes back within 24 hours. Tell us the building and what you’re dealing with, and we’ll scope it properly.