Fire Risk Assessments

We have had to have double fire exit, no smoking, 4 meter cupboard safety signs, told to remove framed, glazed pictures from the walls, remove plants on set back shelves and around the main entrance. The property is occupied by 4 pensioner couples who don't want to feel as though they live in an institutionalised old folks home, or a fire safe Can't plant pots be secured so they won't fall off? Can't framed pictures be screwed to the wall so they can't be knocked off the wall? We feel it's not our home anymore. It' regulations gone mad!

My block of flats, purpose built in 2005, contains 6 flats. Since that time we have had yearly fire safety risk assessments, and all recommendations regarding repair and improvements have been carried out. Therefore, up to date we comply fully with the FSO. Since Grenfell new fire safety guidance and legislation has been introduced with the primary aim of making high rise blocks safer. We fall into the below 11m low risk category. As we are currently fully up to date with our fire safety assessments, what extra assessments or checks do we need in order to comply with the latest legislation? Our fire doors are FD 300 and are undamaged. Compartmentalisation has be…

Please can someone give me some guidance regarding fire dampers? Do the bathroom extraction ducts which travel into the protected corridors need fire & smoke dampers? ADB Vol 2 - 10.22 suggests that they do and they must be linked to the fire alarm. But I have been to a hotel (approx. 20 years old) where there is no fire damper fitted to the ducts coming from the bathrooms. Someone suggested they may be 'shunt ducts' but I cannot seem to understand how these work?! And whether they are acceptable? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hi , I'm after some advice - with completing a fire risk assessment for a medium sized high street retail unit , with private residents above ( not our demise.) We have one main entrance/ exit door & one fire exit to the rear. I've been advised to discount the main entrance / exit for travel distance calculations - meaning we now technically have one fire exit , and thus single direction . Is this correct , or do we calculate travel distances with all doors included ? Thanks

I live in a flat below street level with my own front door. I have mobility issues and I asked my housing association if there was a fire risk assessment. I was told it was not required. I don’t think this is correct as I am 1 of 18 flats of which 9 are below street level all with elderly with mobility issues. The safest exit is through the patio door to a communal garden that is not lit at all. Should I insist on a fire risk assessment to be carried out?

Hi All, where it states that the premises must be no more than basement, ground and first floor, is that the only parameter? So ground , first and second floor would not be permitted under this guidance ? Rob

I'm hoping someone can help me with this. I have come across Green Override break glass units in care homes and schools that are placed on the wall adjacent to an internal fire door fitted with a maglock. The height of the green override unit was about 2 meters, well above head height. The care home I visited had only recently been built so had passed inspection. To me, this seems ridiculous because how would someone that is not particularly tall reach the override unit in an emergency? Any thoughts?

Hi Is the minimum compartmentation between different purpose groups under the control of single occupier (eg. office and factory floor) sixty minutes? Thanks

I am buying ground floor flat. Front door to front garden, kitchen door to back garden, no comunal areas with flat upstairs. Walls made of bricks. My solicitor is asking for FRAEW. Seller said he doesn't have one. There was fire risk assessment done before but expired a year ago. What to do now.

Hi Everyone Looking for a viewpoint on the following if anyone can assist please. Threshold gaps to fire doors should obviously be kept to within permissable limits and if a door performs a smoke stopping function then 3mm is regarded as the accepted threshold gap. To reduce such gaps where threshold gaps are becoming excessive then an accepted practice would be to add a hardwood strip with a minimum of 6mm to the bottom of the door by glueing and screwing. Question: Is there a maximum size put on any timber hardwood addition to reduce a threshold gap at the bottom of a door? Thankyou for any help in this department.

Hi, visited a small industrial unit office accommodation and mezzanine to the front of the building, warehouse / workshop to the rest of the unit L3 detection. There is a caravan sited in the workshop and when questioned a member of staff (as there was a mat and shoes by the door and obviously not just stored for the winter!) they replied "it is used for engineers to sleep in if they get home late after call-outs but not often". Just need to know where / what I can look to quote regarding the issues that this poses as other vehicles are stored in there along with fuel etc! 😮

Hi, I'm about to sell my flat and the solicitor is asking me for a Fire Risk Assessment as there is a communal area. is this really needed?

Good morning, I am seeing pushbacks from landlords (housing associations) for single private dwellings whereby the landlord refuses to complete a fire risk assessment as it is regarded as such. However where it is a home and there is support staff operating on a 24/7 basis would I be right in thinking the landlord has a responsibility to complete an FRA due to the staff presence or would it be the responsibility of the care provider (assuming there is no responsibility agreement).

I wonder if anyone can provide some concrete advice about this. I have a ground floor flat in a mews setting of 11 properties (flats and houses). I am selling the flat and the buyers solicitor is insisting that a Fire Risk Assessment is completed. The managing agent indicates it is not applicable as there are no communal or common areas and every property has its own external front door to the courtyard and car park. Can anybody provide a categoric answer with a bit of evidence please. Much appreciated. I have attached a couple of photos for information

Just had a FRA done on leasehold/ freehold owned apartments & recommendation of heat alarms inside private dwellings The building is grade 2 listed with the conversion done in 1999 with 8 apartments over 2 floors. All communal areas have wired smoke alarms as do private dwellings. Fire doors are in place The report have us 82% safe with recommendations on removal of items in communal areas, boxing in pipes, electrics etc all of which have been done If the heat alarms are a recommendation does that mean they are mandatory as I don’t particularly want one in my property - I am happy with smoke alarms & fire doors ?

If lobby doors leading to a protected stairway are 1200mm, but the stairway is 1000mm, which figure do I use for calculating max. occupancy capacity when using BS9999? Risk profile of building is A2. Also, a strange one, but the clear width of the stairs reduce further to 900mm at the very base! Building is a couple of hundred years old...

I manage a business that annual FRA is due on the 7/3/25. The company I would like to complete it cannot until the 27/3/25. Is this a problem ? Thanks in advance

Can someone please confirm which fire system we need? The FRA said D LD2, but the building is four storeys high, including the basement, which houses three flats off the communal hallway.

Does a shop with 3 employees and never more than a maximum of 10 people including the 3 employees need a FRA by a paid assessor or can it be carried out by the shop manager please? The shop is only open during the day and no one stays in it overnight.

Hi - I've spent the last hour trawling various government documents on the above but can't get a definitive answer in layman's language. I own (outright) and live in the ground floor flat of a converted Victorian house. There are two flats above me and we all share the freehold. The middle flat is owned by a buy-to-let landlord who is remortgaging with a loan company that demanded a fire risk assessment. There are a few things that need to be done to meet the recommendations in the FRA. We already have a compliant fire alarm system, so we just need minor work on the individual flat doors etc. There's a tiny communal hall with a mains smoke detector attached to …

Guidance needed please. I’m trying to purchase a 3 story property. My survey has flagged that there are no internal firedoors. The loft extension was done in 1997 and I believe firedoors were required then. I imagine they have been replaced over the years by various owner with standard normal doors. The owner of the house is saying as they have building regs signed off in 1997 then this is not a problem but I disagree. It is a large property with around 10 internal doors to replace. If I order the doors myself and have a carpenter install them who do I get to certify the work meets fire regulations? I did get a quote from a fire specialist company…

Hi, new and learning to become a fire risk assessor . Im studying about fire doors and im just wondering. it a fire door has a "fire door keep shut" would you still be able to fix a the automatic door closers like the "Dorgard Fire Door Retainers" ? would you have to replace the sign with a new sign "fire door" or would it be acceptable to ? And also going off the subject a little, would the manufacture of the fire door be able to clarify if you can screw door closer devices like the above or would it make the fire door invalid ? Thank you Stephen

My Daughter bought a 2 bed flat which is a Leasehold and the property is basically a converted house with a flat on the ground floor and one on the first floor. Both properties have completely separate front doors to enter and there are no communal are no communal areas at all. Despite my Daughter owning the flat, she has been contacted by Leaseholder/Agent to advise she needs to install a fire door to the entrance of her flat? I don't quite understand why this demand can be made as there are no communal areas and having a fire door as a front door would only keep external fire out as the door opens straight out onto her alleyway? Can anyone advise on this please as t…

Hi, I hope some of you experts can help. I am a tenant in a building with 3 floors and because my business is busy, we have multiple boxes delivered each day. There could be anywhere from 1-6 boxes on average, put at the bottom of the stairs, out the way of traffic and fire exit. The landlord is making my life difficult. We drop parcels to our courier daily and as such may leave multiple parcels at the stair bottom or in fire exit corridor but not blocking the route out. The LL is telling me now no boxes at all can be left at the bottom of my stairs, even out the way or myself leaving parcels for me to take the courier. Parcels could be downstairs …

Do I need fire doors in my converted 2 bedroom 1st floor flat if I decide to let it out. It was converted in 1950's from a house that was built in 1925. There are no communal areas and it has it's own private front door.