HMO fire door inspection in Maidenhead
Bedroom doors, kitchen doors and the hallway. Checked one by one before the council or your tenants find a problem.
Get a priceAn HMO is hard on doors.
Tenants come and go. Bedroom locks get swapped. Doors get kicked, wedged and painted. Plenty of HMOs are old family houses, so the doors went in later and not always well. If you're the landlord or the agent, the state of those doors is on you.
What the council looks at
Your licence conditions and the council's housing fire safety guidance set what's needed, and that depends on the size and layout of the house. A two-storey shared house isn't treated like a three-storey house cut into bedsits. In some, every bedroom door has to be a fire door with a closer. In others it won't be.
We won't tell you what your licence says. We'll tell you what state your doors are in, and you compare the two.
A fire risk assessment for the house is a separate job. A door inspection doesn't replace it.
What goes wrong in shared houses
Bedroom locks first. Someone fits a new one and cuts away more timber than they should, which leaves a thin strip around the lock for fire to get through.
Closers get unhooked because tenants find them annoying.
The kitchen door gets wedged open. If the hinges and closer have been fighting a wedge for years, you can see it in the way the door hangs.
Then the DIY repairs. Builders' filler in a hole. New hinges with the wrong screws. A door planed at the bottom so it clears a carpet.
Getting into the rooms
Tell your tenants when we're coming. We only look at the door, so it takes a few minutes in each room. If you manage a few houses, we can do them in one trip.
What you get
A report for the house with a photo and a plain-English note for each door. It goes on your licence file, and you can hand it to a contractor. If the council asks what you've done about the doors, you've got an answer.
We can price the repairs from the report. Our carpenters do that work themselves.
If you're thinking of fitting a closer yourself, it has to be the right one for that door and set so the door closes fully and latches. A wrong one is a fail.
Work we've done
We inspected 16 fire doors across three homecare properties in Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley. Those are ordinary houses used for people who need care, so the doors have a lot in common with what we see in shared houses.
Tell us how many doors you have and we will send you a price the same day.
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