Fire safety compliance for property managers
You answer to freeholders, leaseholders, insurers and the fire service, across buildings you did not design and budgets you did not set. We make the fire compliance line item predictable.
One contract across the portfolio, one report you can forward
Managing agents inherit a mess by default: every building with its own alarm contractor, its own renewal date, its own format of paperwork, and at least one file where the last certificate is older than the tenancy. Consolidating onto one contract fixes the overhead, but the real value is evidential: identical documentation across the portfolio, in one portal, ready to forward when a freeholder or insurer asks.
Common parts are our bread and butter: communal alarms in blocks, AOVs and smoke control interfaces, emergency lighting on stairs and corridors, dry riser-adjacent kit, and the awkward boundary between the landlord system and what tenants have wired into their demise. We document that boundary, because when something fails it is the first question everyone asks.
Section 20 thresholds, service charge scrutiny and leaseholder challenge all reward fixed, transparent pricing. Our quotes are itemised per building so you can apportion them without a spreadsheet argument.
What a contract covers for you
- Portfolio-wide servicing schedule, one renewal date
- Per-building certificate packs, identical format across sites
- Common-parts systems, AOVs and smoke control interfaces maintained
- Landlord/tenant system boundary documented per building
- Itemised per-building pricing for service charge apportionment
- Portfolio reporting for freeholders and insurers
Who is responsible for fire safety in the common parts of a residential block?
The person with control of the common parts, usually the freeholder or their managing agent, is the responsible person under the Fire Safety Order.
The Fire Safety Act 2021 confirmed that the Order covers the structure, external walls and flat entrance doors in multi-occupied residential buildings. If you manage the block, the duty is yours to organise, and the records need to show it.
Can you take over buildings mid-contract from other suppliers?
Yes. We baseline each building on the first visit and phase takeovers around existing contract end dates where you want to avoid overlap.
The first-visit survey documents the system, its category, its faults and its paperwork gaps, so you know the condition of what we inherited. Buildings with lapsed certificates are prioritised first.
Next step: a free compliance check of one building or the whole portfolio, with a written summary and a fixed contract price.
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