ADS Group covers Kilkenny city and county on maintenance contracts carrying fire detection, emergency lighting, fire fighting equipment, intruder alarms and CCTV under one agreement, one renewal date and one certificate pack. In a county with a high proportion of period commercial premises, the contract has to account for buildings that were never designed around a modern maintenance regime.
A protected building takes longer to service: the devices are harder to reach, the routes are awkward and the install is often non-standard because the fabric forced it to be. Pricing that ignores this produces a contractor who rushes, and rushing is how devices get skipped.
Bars, restaurants and hotels cannot take a sounder test during service. The contract schedules the disruptive items outside trading, which has to be agreed at the start rather than negotiated at every visit.
Where detector type is wrong for the environment, the fix is a change of equipment rather than a repair. That is a planned, quoted piece of work, and a contract that only covers routine servicing will keep rediscovering the same false alarms every quarter.
Full detail on the system types, the standards and the certification process is on the Maintenance & Compliance page, and everything else we cover in the county is on the Kilkenny page.
An engineer assesses the site, reviews the existing system and its documentation, and returns a written scope of works.
