Get Rid of Waking Watch: What Leaseholders Can Expect from a Tower Block Fire Alarm Installation

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This video demonstrates a leaseholders' view of what to expect from a radio fire alarm installation from WFP Fire & Security (within their flats and the common areas of the high rise building). This video is specifically looking at the fire alarm equipment and installation methods involved. #wakingwatch #claddingscandal
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[@yeety1208]

Nice video!

[@PaulFieldWFP]

Thank you, a welcome comment, let us know if there are improvements that could be made or indeed if you’d like to see any other systems

[@fst1775]

Nice vid

[@PaulFieldWFP]

Thank you, your comment is appreciated

[@Rhythmman14]

gotta love the MxPro 5! one of my favourites

[@wirefreeprotection]

Does what is says on the Tin and since the implosion of Kentec, it is by far, the market leading choice, plus the engineers love it, so that helps!

[@fst1775]

My school has that panel :P

[@PaulFieldWFP]

It’s a great fire alarm control panel and can run both Apollo and Hochiki protocols and new entry to the Apollo expander

[@fst1775]

@@PaulFieldWFP I agree, the panel runs Apollo xp95

[@wirefreeprotection]

One viewer asked about the smoke detector in the corridor, this can be clearly seen about 1:55 into the video. These detectors are part of the smoke vent system and not the new fire alarm, the smoke vent system, also called Air Opening Vent (AOV) is a system that is installed in 90% of HRB's and is specifically there to detect smoke on a floor and open the vent on that floor, allowing smoke to be ventilated to the outside. In this specific case the AOV system will be linked into the new fire alarm and they will operate in conjunction. Why is this important? Because this saves the leaseholders installing detection along the corridor which is already there and that fact will save money. Paul Field

[@battytec]

Are the various panels networked, or do each set of floors have their own systems?

[@wirefreeprotection]

These would be networked to act as one brain across the building so that the fire alarm can cover all areas communally in a streamlined fashion. Likely, you won't have multiple panels anyway, usually just one on the ground floor; it would only need multiple if the number of devices exceeded what the panel could hold but usually you can get cards within the panel to hold a greater number of devices.
Thank you for your question!

[@1987jugernaut]

What does get rid of waking watch mean?

[@wirefreeprotection]

Thank you for your comment!
Waking Watch is another term for fire patrol, which is the use of a human/physical team who manually patrol a building to look for signs of a fire to help react to it/notify the inhabitants/initiate an evacuation.
This is extremely costly, not as efficient at detecting and raising alerts in the event of a fire as an automatic fire alarm would be, and has not proved to be sustainable for the prolonged period of time it takes to rectify fire safety issues (such as cladding or fireproofing) within buildings (more often than not high-rise residentials).
Therefore we've called this 'Get Rid of Waking Watch'. You can have more of a read about this here: w-fp.co.uk/how-to-prevent-waking-watch-being-needed-on-your-buildings/
I hope this helps, but do reach out if not on 01277 724 653.
Kind regards,
Verity
Head of Comms at WFP