You MUST ensure your fire door is compliant and effective. If it is not, you must conduct works to meet compliance.

We’re the Block Managers of your building, it’s part of our duties to conduct regular Fire Door Inspections and this includes a very detailed 10-point inspection of ALL fire doors in your building, including your door.

If you have been sent a Fire Door Repairs Quotation, our recent inspection has shown your door has maintenance issues and these must be addressed to avoid non-compliance with fire safety laws. In addition, the terms of your lease require you keep your property to good condition and non-compliant fire doors amount to a breach of lease terms. As the Block Managers we may have to take action to remedy a breach of the terms of your lease if your door remains non-compliant.

Maintaining your fire door ensures you stay compliant with the law and the terms of your lease.

Please note: your fire door is privately demised to you and is not a communal area and for this reason we cannot use communal service charges to maintain it.

If your fire door is non-compliant it MUST recieve repairs or replacement to achieve compliance.

It is a requirement of the law and terms of your lease to keep your fire door compliant.

If our records show we've written to you to advise of repairs required to your fire door - and the door remains non-compliant upon further inspections - we MUST take action to enforce the terms of your lease such is our role and responsibilties as the Block Manager to keep residents safe.

We will serve a Breach of Lease Notice requiring repairs to bring your fire door into compliance within a specified amount of time. You may use our Fire Door Repairs service or another contractor. Anyone conducting repairs to your fire door MUST be competent and you must be able to provide evidence of such along with evidence of repairs resulting in your fire door being compliant.

We've made it very SIMPLE for leaseholders to obtain fire door repairs. We have office based Block Management and field-based Trades staff working collaboratively in a joined-up manner for your building routinely, we know your building very well.

Our Fire Door Repair services make it easy for you to achieve compliance. Via your Fire Door Quiotation Email simply follow steps to “Book Now” and we’ll take care of the rest for you. Your Fire Door Compliance Certificate will be emailed to you on completion of fire door works.

To comply with the law, you MUST engage contractors that are competent working with fire doors and can demonstrate this. You must engage contractors with recognised Fire Door Certifications. At AM Surveying & Block Management our Fire Door Installation Operatives are qualified Installers approved by UK Fire Door Training and FireQual, independent certification providers in the fire doors sector. This means our Installers can demonstrate the necessary competence to maintain and install fire doors.

After making your Booking, works will be conducted within 1-4 weeks depending on the nature of the work required. Smaller repairs can be conducted much more quickly. For more complex works – such as replacement of an entire door – we need to order your new door and there is a lead time while we wait for it to arrive before we can install it for you.

Upon completion of works we’ll email you your Fire Door Certificate of Compliance.

Upon receiving your Booking, our Operations department will contact you to arrange access to your property and arrange a date for works to take place.

The principle laws that apply to fire doors in blocks of flats are:

- The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022,

- The Fire Safety Act 2021, and

- the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.

In particular, the 2022 & 2021 Acts requires fire doors in all flats to be compliant and in good working condition. Fire doors that are not in working condition amount to a non-compliance with the law.

Further, the terms of your lease require you keep your property in satisfactory condition. Non-compliant fire doors to your property amounts to a breach of lease terms which may result in a Breach of Lease Notice having to be issued to remedy the matter.

Maintaining your fire door ensures you stay compliant with the law and the terms of your lease.

We are the Block Managers of your building and as such it’s part of our duties to conduct regular Fire Door Inspections and these include a detailed 10-point inspection of ALL fire doors, including your door.

During our Fire Door Inspections we collect photos and details concerning your door and these are held in our database.

Your personal Fire Door Quotation has been prepared with careful reference to information we hold on our records, is accurate and includes exactly what is needed for you to achieve compliance.

Our installers are approved by UK Fire Door Training and FireQual, independent certification providers in the fire doors sector.

A Fire Door Certificate of Compliance will be provided to you on completion of your works. It will be emailed to you.

To be a complaint fire door, your fire door must have at least 3 door hinges, with no screws missing and the hinges must be CE marked and be rated to BS EN 1935.

Non-compliant door hinges will melt, warp or break under the intense conditions of fire and so these types of hinges render your door non-compliant.

If your door has been found to have non-compliant hinges, less than 3 hinges, hinges with screws missing or any of these - the door requires works to resolve this such to achieve compliance.

Fire doors are designed to contain and prevent the spread of smoke. To achieve this smoke seals compliant with BS 476 part 22 and part 31.1 or EN 1634-3 must be used.

If your door has no smoke seal, smoke seals that are damaged or smoke seals that are not compliant the door requires works to resolve this such to achieve compliance.

All fire doors, other than those to locked cupboards such as those to the communal areas containing electrical meters - MUST be fitted with an appropriate self-closing device. Your front door must be a fire door and MUST have a self-closing device.

The self-closing device must comply with BS EN 1154 or BS EN 1155, and be CE marked.

If your fire door does not have a self-closing device or it’s failed or it’s non-compliant the door requires works to resolve this such to achieve compliance.

Your fire door is permitted to hold various ironmongery and door furnishings as long as they are compliant and DON’T compromise the fire resisting properties to your door. This includes the locks/latches, hinges, letterbox, spyhole and signage.

For example, a fire door that was originally a fire door at the time of installation BUT has subsequently had a mailbox retrospectively installed will NO LONGER be a fire door (unless the installation was conducted by certified fire door installers using compliant methods and materials).

If your fire door has been noted to be a fire door HOWEVER has had furnishings that are non-compliant or that have breached the fire resisting qualities of the door, the door requires works to resolve this such to achieve compliance.