Fire protection systems fail quietly. Valves seize part-open, gauges drift, pump batteries die, sprinkler heads get painted over, and a detector removed during a refit never goes back. Nothing announces any of it — until the system is called on.
NFPA 25 exists precisely because installed does not mean working. An annual maintenance contract is how you keep the system you paid for.
What an AMC covers
- Fire pumps — electric, diesel and jockey: scheduled running tests, battery and fuel checks, filters, packing, alignment
- Valves — exercise, inspection and tagging of control, check, alarm and pressure-reducing valves
- Sprinklers and standpipe — head condition, obstruction checks, gauge verification, flow tests
- Hydrants, hose cabinets and landing valves
- Detection and alarm — periodic device testing, panel checks, battery capacity
- Extinguishers — inspection, servicing and refilling
- Equipment tagging so anybody can see at a glance when an item was last serviced
Documentation management
An audit does not ask whether you maintain the system. It asks you to prove it. We keep the record: inspection sheets, test results with recorded values, defect logs, corrective actions and their close-out dates, and the service history of every tagged item.
When an RSC, Nirapon or buyer audit arrives, the documentation is ready rather than reconstructed.
Field service
Between scheduled visits, things break. We attend for faults, repairs, modifications and spares — on systems we installed and on systems we did not.
Our maintenance relationships tend to be long. We have serviced United Hospital continuously since installation, and hold maintenance contracts at both Auto Crop Care sites.