Fire door inspection in Hayes
Flats made from other buildings, and workplaces near the canal and the airport.
Get a priceHayes was a factory town. The Gramophone Company built its works here and EMI grew out of it, and the area was full of industry for most of the last century.
That history is why a lot of the buildings are not what they were built to be. Several have become homes.
A building that changed its job
A fire door in a building that was always a block of flats was chosen with that in mind. In a building that used to be an office or a factory it may not have been.
When a building changes use, the new use has to be signed off under the building regulations, and a fire strategy is part of that. Doors are part of it. In practice we meet buildings where the strategy was good and the doors have since been swapped, painted over and propped open.
If you manage flats in a building that began as something else, ask for the original fire strategy. It tells you which doors were meant to be fire doors and what rating they were supposed to have. We can inspect against it.
What to look for in a conversion
Corridors are often long and wide, because they were once the corridors of an office floor.
Stair doors are often the old ones. They may be fine, or they may be a door with a glass panel that was put in for the office and never changed.
Fire doors in a converted building are sometimes mismatched. Because the flats were fitted out at different times, doors from different suppliers sit side by side.
Offices and workplaces
Workplaces near the canal and the airport use doors constantly. Hotels, warehouses, offices. Each has the same basic duty under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 to keep its fire doors working.
We checked 129 doors in a hotel in Reading. A building where people arrive and leave all day shows up wear in a way a quiet office does not. Closers go first, then seals, then the edges.
Shared houses
Hayes has plenty of houses let to several people. If five or more people from two or more households live in a house, it needs an HMO licence. Smaller houses may need one under a different council scheme, and the council can tell you.
Hillingdon
Hayes is in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The London Fire Brigade enforces fire safety across Hillingdon as it does in all the London boroughs.
The Elizabeth line
Hayes and Harlington has an Elizabeth line station, which has made it a place people move to and commute from. New blocks near the station have more recent doors. They still need checking, particularly if they are over 11 metres.
Cost
A small building starts from around £250 plus VAT. It rises with the number of doors and with how hard they are to reach. Send what you have.
Where we come from
Luton. We do not have an office in Hayes.
Questions we get asked
How do I find out what fire strategy my converted building has?
Ask the managing agent or the freeholder. It may have come with the building regulations paperwork from the conversion.
Do you check doors against the original strategy?
Yes, if you give us a copy. Otherwise we inspect each door for what it is and report on that.
Send the postcode and a rough number of doors. We will come back with a price the same day.
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