A family-run London fire and security company, trading since 2004
Security Red Alert is the trading name of Friendlyshop Ltd. We design, install and service fire alarms, CCTV, intruder alarms, access control and smoke ventilation from our base in Summerstown, SW17, working across all 32 London boroughs with most of our work in South London and central London.
Who we are
We started in 2004 fitting intruder alarms and CCTV for shops and homes around Wandsworth, Merton and Lambeth. Fire alarms followed as the same customers asked us to look after their whole building rather than call three different contractors. Today fire detection is the largest part of what we do, and the customers who rely on us most are landlords with HMOs, managing agents with blocks of flats, and small businesses that need one contractor they can trust with the lot.
We are still family run. The office is at Security House, 73 Summerstown, and the engineers who go out from it are ours. We do not pass work to subcontractors and we do not send a salesperson to survey a property, so the person quoting the job is the person who understands how it will be installed.
We are SSAIB approved for intruder alarm systems. Our fire alarm work is carried out to BS 5839 Part 1 for commercial and communal systems and Part 6 for domestic and HMO systems, and we certificate every installation and every service visit.
Our own engineers, not subcontractors
The people who survey your property are the people who install and service it. Every engineer is employed by us, DBS checked, and works to BS 5839 for fire alarms and the SSAIB scheme for intruder alarms.
Certificates that hold up
Every install and every service visit ends with a certificate in a consistent format. Landlords use them for HMO licensing, managing agents for their compliance files, and businesses for their insurers.
Fixed prices, agreed before work starts
We survey first, quote a fixed price, and stick to it. If we find something on site that changes the job, we stop and tell you before doing anything you have not agreed to.
A family business you can actually reach
Call the office and you speak to someone who knows the job. We are small enough to remember your properties and large enough to hold a servicing calendar for a whole portfolio.
Accreditations and standards
SSAIB approved (intruder alarms)
Certificated by the Security Systems and Alarms Inspection Board for intruder alarm systems. SSAIB certification is what most insurers ask for when they require a professionally installed and maintained alarm.
Our own engineers
Every engineer is employed by us and DBS checked, not subcontracted. The person who surveys your property is the person who installs and services it, and who comes back when something needs attention.
British Standards
Fire alarms to BS 5839-1 and BS 5839-6, emergency lighting to BS 5266, extinguishers to BS 5306, sprinklers to BS 9251, smoke ventilation to BS 7346-8 and EN 12101, CCTV to BS EN 62676.
Where we work
We cover all 32 London boroughs. Because we are based in SW17, most of our installations and servicing contracts are in South London and central London: Wandsworth, Merton, Lambeth, Southwark, Croydon, Sutton, Kingston, Richmond, Bromley and Lewisham, and Zone 1 from Westminster and the City through to Kensington and Chelsea, Camden and Islington.
For portfolios spread across London we hold one servicing calendar for every property and plan routes so visits to the same area happen on the same day.
Talk to us
Security House, 73 Summerstown, London SW17 0BQ. Surveys are free and quotes are fixed before any work starts.
Email: admin@securityredalert.com