Fire door inspection at Ebbsfleet and Northfleet
New apartments by the station, and older streets close by.
Get a priceEbbsfleet is a new place. It has an international station, a new garden city being built around it and a lot of new apartment blocks.
Northfleet, next door, is an old town. Victorian terraces, an older high street and a long history by the river.
Both need fire doors inspected, but for different reasons.
New apartments
In a building completed in the last few years, the fire doors are usually fitted correctly on paper. In practice, new builds are still full of the small faults that come from fast work.
The ones to check first are the closers, the seals and the gaps. See our page on new-build flat doors for the whole list.
If the developer has handed the block to a management company, that company is now the responsible person for the common parts. We can give them a first picture of what they have inherited.
Older streets
Northfleet has many houses that have been turned into flats or let room by room. The doors are older, and many have been altered by successive owners.
Where a house is let to several unrelated tenants, it can fall under the HMO rules, and the council has its own view on the doors. We look at those in the same way as a flat.
Who covers it
Both areas are in Gravesham and Dartford boroughs, depending on the street, and Kent Fire and Rescue Service covers them. If you are not sure which council deals with your building, check the postcode on the council website.
Getting here
The Crossing is the biggest variable on the way from Luton. On a clear run Ebbsfleet is about an hour and ten minutes. We often combine it with Greenhithe and Gravesend.
Questions we get asked
Does a new block need regular door checks?
Yes. The law sets a regular timetable for tall blocks, and for any block the doors need to be kept in working order.
Our management company took over a block from the developer. What do we need?
A first inspection gives you a baseline. Then you can decide on repairs, and keep the paperwork for later.
Send us the postcode and a rough count of doors. A price comes back the same day.
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