ERRCS & BDA inspection and repair: back in compliance, with the paperwork to prove it.
Failed fire inspection, a fault on the annunciator panel, or a yearly ERRCS test coming due? We test the building, repair or re-tune the BDA system, and give you a written result for your fire official — across New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
- Testing that tells you whether you even need a system
- Design and installation by our own crew
- Yearly testing after, so you stay compliant
Ask us about your building
Tell us where it is and what it is. We’ll tell you what’s required and what testing costs. No obligation.
Annual ERRCS inspection, and what to do when one fails
Once an ERRCS or BDA system is in, it has to keep working — and keep proving it works. That means a test every year, batteries that hold their charge, and records the fire official can ask for at any time.
Annual testing
Required every year once a system is installed, and it is the building owner’s obligation, not the installer’s. We do the yearly test and keep the records ready for the fire official.
Battery checks
Systems are generally required to run on battery through a power loss. Batteries age; we check them at the yearly test and replace them when they are due.
Fault alarms
The annunciator panel reports antenna failure, amplifier failure and low battery. If yours is showing a fault, the system is telling you it may not work when it is needed.
If the building or the system did not pass
A fail is a measurement, not a verdict. The same grid data that shows where the building fell short shows what it would take to fix it.
Retest to find the fault
We measure the building against the grid so the fail can be located — a dead stairwell, a basement, a floor — rather than argued about.
Repair or re-tune
A failing antenna, amplifier or battery is replaced; a channelised system whose county channels have changed may need re-tuning rather than new equipment.
Retest and document
The repaired system is tested against the same grid, and you get a written result you can hand back to the fire official.
From flagged to back in compliance
Each step produces something the fire official can look at.
Tell us what happened
A failed inspection, a fault on the panel, or a yearly test that is coming due.
Test the building
A grid test shows what the system is actually delivering, area by area.
Fix what the test found
Replace or re-tune whatever has stopped doing its job.
Retest and keep the records
A documented result now, and the yearly test after that.
Tell us about the building.
We’ll tell you what’s required and what it costs to find out. No obligation.
What people ask us about this
Yes, annual testing is generally required once a system is in, and it is the building owner’s responsibility rather than the installer’s. We do the yearly test, replace batteries when due and keep the records ready for the fire official.
Tell us what is in the building and what happened. The first step is the same either way: measure what the system is actually delivering.
The same measurements that show the failure show the fix — how much gain is needed and roughly where antennas have to go. If there is already a system, that usually means finding the part that has stopped doing its job.
A move to different channels can mean a channelised system needs re-tuning; a wider change can mean more than that. A system that has quietly stopped matching the network it amplifies shows up at the yearly test rather than during an emergency.