Fire alarm services for building owners and landlords

Your building, your responsibility

Under the New Jersey Uniform Fire Code, the owner is generally responsible for keeping a building’s fire protection systems maintained and in working order. The local fire official inspects, and deficiencies become violations with deadlines attached. ISTFIRE keeps your system inspected, documented and maintained so your building is prepared for every inspection.

What you get

• Scheduled NFPA 72 inspections with written reports for fire officials and insurers
• Deficiencies itemized and priced, with straightforward repair options
• Legacy and discontinued parts sourced to restore older systems
• Repairs on systems from many manufacturers, including systems installed by others
• Clear choices between repair, panel replacement and full replacement
• Monitoring set up or transferred, with signals confirmed at the central station
• New systems for renovations, additions and changes of use

Repair, upgrade or replace?

An old system is not automatically a replacement project. Because ISTFIRE sources legacy and discontinued equipment, a failed card, power supply or device on an older panel can often be replaced without replacing the system. Sometimes a repair keeps it reliable for years; sometimes a new control panel can reuse the existing wiring and devices; sometimes the building has changed enough that a full replacement makes sense. We provide a clear recommendation, the reasoning behind it and pricing for each option.

Landlords, condo associations and co-op boards

In apartment buildings and condominiums, the fire alarm system covers common areas, building-wide notification and, in many cases, the connection to the monitoring company. We work with owners, boards and their managing agents, write proposals a board can compare and vote on, and coordinate testing with residents.

Renovations and changes of use

Adding floors, converting space or changing how a building is used can change what the fire alarm system has to do. We review the plans, work with your architect or engineer, and design, install or extend the system so it passes acceptance testing. See commercial fire alarm systems for the buildings we work on.