Is your building small? Most of the ones we are asked about in Radlett are.
That suits an inspection. A block of eight flats, or a care home with fifteen bedrooms, can be done in a morning, and the report is short enough to read the same afternoon.
A morning in a care home
Say there are fifteen bedrooms. We start at the far end of a corridor and work towards the exit, so the way out is the last thing we check. It takes most of a morning.
We knock on each bedroom door. If a resident is in, a member of staff stays with them and we do the door from the corridor side with a quick look from inside.
Fifteen bedrooms plus corridor, lobby and kitchen doors makes around 25 doors, so each one gets a few minutes and no more. At each we run the gauge, check the label, the seals, the hinges and the closer, and do the let-go test.
In Kings Langley and Hemel Hempstead we inspected 16 doors across three homecare properties. The three houses were each different, so each one got its own list.
Offices
A small office usually has only a few fire doors, and they are easy to forget. The entrance from the stairs. The door to any back room used for storage. The way out at the rear.
If your office is on the first floor of an older building, the stair door matters most.
Who looks at fire safety
Hertsmere Borough Council is the local authority. Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service enforces the Fire Safety Order in workplaces and in the common parts of residential buildings.
Getting here
We come from Luton, about 40 minutes by road. Radlett is a short hop from Borehamwood and Bushey, so we often fit it in with those.
If you manage more than one small building, say so. We can look at them in the same visit.
Send the postcode and a rough door count. You get a price back the same day.
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