Fire door inspection in Flackwell Heath
A house let by the room has more doors to look after than a house let as a home.
Get a priceMost of Flackwell Heath is ordinary housing. That is the point of this page.
An ordinary house, let to one family, has few rules about its internal doors. An ordinary house let to four unrelated adults is a different building in law and in practice.
Where the line falls
A house let to five or more people from more than one household needs an HMO licence in England. With three or four tenants, the licence is not mandatory, but the council may have its own scheme. Buckinghamshire Council is the one to ask.
The fire safety side is separate. If the house is shared, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 can apply to the shared parts, including the stairs and hall.
You do not need to work it all out before you call. Tell us how many people live in the house and how many floors it has.
Doors that count in a shared house
Bedrooms, where each tenant sleeps. The kitchen, where fires start. The doors onto the hall and stair, because the stair is the way out.
In a family house nobody would call these fire doors. In a house let by the room, the council may expect them to be. Check your licence conditions.
What we look for
Do the doors close on their own, and fully? Are the hinges and screws right? Are there gaps? Have locks been fitted so badly that half the door has gone? Is there anything wedging a door open?
We photograph each one and keep the number against the room.
Telling your tenants
We leave this to you, but we make it easy. We send a plain notice with the date and the time. Tenants who are in can let us into their room. Those who are out can leave a key with a neighbour, or we come back.
Afterwards
A report you can put in the file. If there are failures, you will see which doors and why.
If you want repairs priced, we can do that from the report. If you would rather use your own carpenter, the report works for that too.
Getting to you
We travel from Luton. Flackwell Heath is a short way past High Wycombe, so it is easy to pair with another job.
Questions we get asked
Do tenants have to be in?
Not always. Some doors we can check from the hall. For the inside face of a bedroom door, we need the room open.
Does a house with three tenants count?
It depends on the council scheme. Ask the council. The doors can still be inspected in the meantime.
Send the postcode and a rough door count. We will come back with a price today.
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