Independent, impartial surveys for leasehold blocks and communal areas. One point of contact across your whole portfolio, a separate photographic report for each building, and no upsell to remedial works — because I don’t fit or sell doors.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, the freeholder, RMC, RTM company or managing agent in control of a block’s communal areas is usually a “responsible person” and must keep communal fire doors in efficient working order and good repair. In residential buildings over 11 metres, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (Regulation 10) add fixed duties: check common-part fire doors at least every 3 months, and use best endeavours to check flat entrance doors at least every 12 months. Those Regulation 10 checks are simple visual checks you can carry out in-house — an independent professional inspection gives you a competent, documented record to rely on. General information, not legal advice.
For a managing agent or block manager, that duty translates into evidence you can put in front of leaseholders, a fire risk assessor, an insurer or an enforcing officer. The efficient-working-order duty has no fixed interval, but periodic competent inspection is how you demonstrate you have met it — and where a building is over 11 metres, the Regulation 10 quarterly communal-door checks and annual best-endeavours flat-entrance checks must be recorded.
The Order is enforced by the local Fire and Rescue Authority, which can issue enforcement or prohibition notices, levy fines and, in serious cases, prosecute. A dated, independent photographic inspection is a straightforward way to show a door-by-door record for each building you manage, rather than relying on memory or a merged spreadsheet.
Below 11 metres the specific Regulation 10 frequencies don’t apply, but the Fire Safety Order 2005 still requires communal fire doors to be kept in efficient working order — so periodic, competent, documented inspection remains good practice across every block with common parts.
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Read my jargon-free guide to Regulation 10 and the Fire Safety Order to see exactly which duties apply to each block in your portfolio.
A detailed photographic report for each building, with every door photographed and individually recorded — so each block’s evidence stands alone, ready to file, share or hand to a fire risk assessor without unpicking a merged portfolio PDF.
A plain pass or fail on every door against BS 8214:2026, with each defect located and priority-graded and plain-English remedial recommendations — so you and your contractors know what genuinely matters first and what can wait.
Every door assessed as a complete assembly — leaf, frame, gaps, intumescent and smoke seals, hinges, closer, glazing, signage and condition — formatted for the people who’ll read it and delivered digitally, typically within around 48 hours.
You deal with one qualified inspector from first enquiry to final report — not a call centre and a rotating cast of subcontractors. Whether it’s a single block or a multi-block portfolio, it’s quoted in one go and coordinated in one place.
The same methodology and grading applied to every door in every block, so a fail means the same thing whichever building it’s in — and findings compare cleanly year-on-year as you re-inspect.
Clear photographic evidence you can share with leaseholders and residents — useful support for the Regulation 10 duty to give residents information on the importance of fire doors and why communal doors shouldn’t be propped or altered.
I don’t sell, fit or repair the doors I inspect, so there’s no incentive to over-report to win remedial work. Access is handled practically too — communal and flat-entrance doors coordinated across multiple visits where a block needs it.
Use the instant estimator or email your building list with rough door counts and access notes. I’ll confirm a per-door price and a plan for the programme — no obligation.
I inspect and photograph every door in scope — communal and flat-entrance where they’re in scope — scheduled around access, checking each as a complete assembly and grading anything I find.
You get a separate report for each building typically within around 48 hours — a per-door photographic record with pass/fail and prioritised remedials. You act on it with your own contractors; I don’t quote for or carry out the repairs.
You pay per door, with volume discounts as the count rises — from a single block to a whole portfolio — plus one clear, transparent drive-time travel call-out. Every building or portfolio gets a firm, no-obligation quote.
I don’t sell, fit or repair the doors I inspect, so there’s no incentive to over-report to win remedial work. For an agent answerable to leaseholders and a freeholder, impartial third-party evidence is far easier to stand behind.
More than seven years in fire safety and a working knowledge of the BS 8214:2026 code of practice, applied consistently across every door and every visit.
Reports are formatted for the people who’ll read them — leaseholders, freeholders, responsible persons, fire risk assessors, insurers and enforcing officers — calm, factual and in plain English.
Both — a single block or a whole portfolio, quoted in one go, scheduled around access, with the same inspector throughout for consistency building-to-building and year-on-year.
A separate photographic report for each building, so every block’s record stands alone and can be shared, filed or acted on independently — no merged portfolio PDFs someone has to unpick.
The specific Regulation 10 frequencies apply over 11 metres. Under the Fire Safety Order 2005 you must still keep communal fire doors in efficient working order in any block with common parts, so periodic competent, documented inspection remains good practice. General information, not legal advice.
Whoever is in control of the premises. For a block’s common parts that is often the freeholder, RMC or RTM company, with the managing agent acting on their behalf, and duties can be shared. The report works whatever your arrangement. General information, not legal advice.
Yes — the photographic report is straightforward to share and helps support the Regulation 10 duty to give residents information on the importance of fire doors.
No — I inspect and report only. I don’t sell, fit or repair doors, so the findings stay impartial and you appoint whichever competent contractor you choose.
Typically within around 48 hours, delivered digitally, with one report per building.
A transparent per-door rate that tapers with volume, plus one clear drive-time call-out from £45. Send your building list or use the estimator for a figure up front, then we refine it into a firm, no-obligation quote.
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