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Fire Door Compliance for HMOs and Residential Blocks

Sentinel Projects works with HMO operators, managing agents and residential portfolios across Northampton, Cambridge, Oxford, London and the rest of the UK. We get your communal and flat entrance doors compliant before the licensing inspection or the next quarterly check. We are FireQual-qualified and BlueSky-certified.

Compliance before the deadline

HMO licensing and the fire regulations have both tightened, and the requirements have got specific. Flat entrance doors and communal doors that passed a few years ago often do not meet the current standard, and a failed licensing inspection can hold up a renewal or a let.

We come out, tell you exactly what needs doing to pass, and do the work before your deadline. No guesswork about what the inspector wants, and no scramble at the last minute.

What the rules now require

LegislationWhat it means for you
Fire Safety Act 2021Flat entrance doors fall within the fire risk assessment
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022Quarterly checks of communal fire doors in buildings over 11m
HMO licensing conditionsSpecific fire door standards as a condition of the licence

The Responsible Person, often the operator or managing agent, holds the record-keeping duty and the liability.

What we do for residential portfolios

  • Inspection of communal and flat entrance doors, with a photographed report
  • Installation of certified FD30 doorsets for flat entrances and communal areas
  • Remediation to clear a failed check quickly
  • Fire stopping in communal risers and voids

Survey

We assess your communal and flat entrance doors.

Report

You get a photographed report and exactly what needs doing to pass.

Works

We deliver before your deadline.

Certification

You get the records for licensing and your fire safety file.

Common questions

In most blocks, yes. Since the Fire Safety Act 2021, flat entrance doors fall within the building's fire risk assessment and are expected to meet the fire door standard.

Yes. Tell us your date and we will tell you what is achievable. We regularly work to licensing and inspection deadlines.

Yes. We work with operators and agents across multiple properties, with one point of contact and consistent records.

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