Just wondering if anyone can help.
We have a six floor office in Dublin, with six fire points (12 extinguishers).
We had a company in the last few years to 'service' our extinguishers (about 400 + vat) but this year I rang up another company to get a quote.
So the guy came in, and he tells us that, we have 12 fire extinguishers (I knew that), but that 11 of them are Co2. the one foam extinguisher we have, is a 12kg one (massive) and that 5 of the Co2 extinguishers are the much larger 6kg version. The guy who came in, said that for each fire point we should have a co2 and a foam extinguisher (i.e. 6 foam, 6 co2). So he quoted me for 6 foam extinguishers, at €80 a pop.....
I then made one call and managed to get a price of €45 each for the same foam extinguisher.
I know nothing about these things, but now I kind of do, but was wondering if anyone could clarify what it is we need. It seems like the fire safety industry is running a complete scam - everybody quotes ridiculous figures, tries to make as much money as possible, but because its fire safety, nobody queries it.
Well I have queried it, and its a shambles. I rang up the head office of the company who have been dealing with us for the last 4/5 years only to be told at 10.30am that the person I should be speaking with, is having their tea, can I call back later.
Gobsmacked.
We have a six floor office in Dublin, with six fire points (12 extinguishers).
We had a company in the last few years to 'service' our extinguishers (about 400 + vat) but this year I rang up another company to get a quote.
So the guy came in, and he tells us that, we have 12 fire extinguishers (I knew that), but that 11 of them are Co2. the one foam extinguisher we have, is a 12kg one (massive) and that 5 of the Co2 extinguishers are the much larger 6kg version. The guy who came in, said that for each fire point we should have a co2 and a foam extinguisher (i.e. 6 foam, 6 co2). So he quoted me for 6 foam extinguishers, at €80 a pop.....
I then made one call and managed to get a price of €45 each for the same foam extinguisher.
I know nothing about these things, but now I kind of do, but was wondering if anyone could clarify what it is we need. It seems like the fire safety industry is running a complete scam - everybody quotes ridiculous figures, tries to make as much money as possible, but because its fire safety, nobody queries it.
Well I have queried it, and its a shambles. I rang up the head office of the company who have been dealing with us for the last 4/5 years only to be told at 10.30am that the person I should be speaking with, is having their tea, can I call back later.
Gobsmacked.