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A free calculator and plain-English guides for electrical, fire protection and life safety, and security contractors: servicing, testing, certificates, RAMS and getting paid.
Fire alarms, emergency lighting and extinguishers
Fire alarm battery calculator
Calculate standby battery capacity and see the working for your fire detection and alarm design.
Open calculator 02 /Fire detection and alarm servicing: how often and what is checked
Six-monthly visits, what an engineer covers, the logbook and how to deal with false alarms.
Read the guide 03 /Fire alarm categories explained
What L1 to L5, M, P1 and P2 mean in practice, and who decides which one a building needs.
Read the guide 04 /What is an L4 fire alarm system?
What Category L4 covers, how it differs from L3, and who decides.
Read the guide 05 /How to create a fire alarm zone plan
What a zone plan must show, where it goes and how to make one.
Read the guide 06 /How to do a fire alarm as-fitted drawing
What the drawing shows and how to produce it step by step.
Read the guide 07 /How to do a fire alarm O&M manual
What goes in the handover pack and how to put it together.
Read the guide 08 /Emergency lighting testing and records
Monthly functional tests, the annual full-duration test and what the log should show.
Read the guide 09 /Fire extinguisher servicing basics
Monthly checks, the annual basic service, extended service and what to record under BS 5306-3.
Read the guide 10 /Fire detection and alarm certificates
Explore fire detection and alarm certificate sets and built-in calculations.
Read the guide 11 /Fire alarm commissioning certificate
What the BS 5839-1 commissioning certificate records, who signs it, what to check before you sign and the mistakes that cause trouble at handover.
Read the guideIntruder alarms and security systems
Intruder alarm grades and maintenance
Grades 1 to 4 in plain English, what police response involves and how often to visit.
Read the guide 02 /What is a Grade 3 intruder alarm?
What Grade 3 means under BS EN 50131, where it is used and what it involves.
Read the guide 03 /Intruder alarm battery calculator
Work out standby battery capacity for Grade 2 and Grade 3 systems.
Open calculator 04 /Security certificates and reports
Certificates and service reports for intruder alarms, CCTV, access control, door entry and more.
See the certificatesInspection, testing and certificates
EICR guide: intervals, codes and unsatisfactory reports
How often to inspect each property type, what C1, C2, C3 and FI mean, and what makes a report unsatisfactory.
Read the guide 02 /Electrical certificates
EICRs, installation certificates and minor works, connected to the job.
Read the guidePaperwork, safety and money
Writing RAMS that engineers actually read
Short, job-specific risk assessments and method statements, and how to get them briefed and signed.
Read the guide 02 /CIS and retention for subcontractors
How the 20%, 30% and 0% rates work, what the deduction is taken from, and how retention fits in.
Read the guide 03 /Paper, spreadsheets or software?
What each way of running a small contractor really costs in money and time, using published prices.
Read the guide 04 /Time and cost calculator
Your team, your certificate count, your minutes and your hourly cost, minus the Compliar subscription and compared with what you pay now.
Open calculator 05 /Service report software
What a service report should show, how it differs from a certificate, and how the report is produced from the visit the engineer recorded.
Read the guide 06 /Records to keep for a scheme audit
The job, maintenance, people and equipment records usually asked for at an NSI, SSAIB or BAFE audit, and the gaps that get raised.
Read the guide 07 /Invoices and Xero
Send an invoice from Compliar and have it created in Xero, with payments coming back.
See how it works 08 /Getting started
Follow a typical job and find a starting point for your team.
Read the guide 09 /Digital fire log book for property owners
A fire and emergency lighting log book for each property, without buying seats.
See how it worksGeneral guidance only. Check the standard itself and take advice from your own competent person for the job in front of you.
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