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You may be in the process of buying a flat and have been asked by yours or the vendors Solicitors to provide a fire risk assessment.

This will be for the communal areas in the building which provides access to your flat entrance door.  This can be frustrating as it should be down to the vendor to provide a fire risk assessment but often this is not always completed.

If you need this fire risk assessment completed quickly and for a competitive rate, then please call Whale Fire on 0800 772 0738 , email us at info@whalefire.co.uk or follow this link to our enquiry page:

We provide fire risk assessments to all residential and commercial properties and have a large client base consisting of Housing Associations, Property Management Companies, Hotels amongst many more.

We have a common sense pragmatic approach to our work and all assessments are accredited by a Warrington and IFSM qualified assessor.

We offer no no-nonsense straight talking advice and our assessments offer the following benefits:

• Clear and concise recommendations within our third-party accredited assessments
• Realistic timescales for work to be completed, taking into account logistics and costs
• Fire risk assessments that work alongside EWS 1 forms
• Health and Safety assessments
• No additional fire door or compartmentation surveys where these can be avoided

For all London Fire Risk Assessments please visit our Fire Risk Assessments London page here:

Whale Fire carry out fire risk assessments throughout London and a lot of our Work is carried out in North London in Islington and in and around the Finsbury Park area.  We specialise in carrying out fire risk assessments to the communal areas of flats as well as to all commercial properties.

Whether you are the responsible person for a block of flats, shop, restaurant, public house, cafe or any other premises please contact Whale Fire today on 0800 772 00738.

You can also enquire via our London Fire Risk Assessments page here:

If there are any communal areas within your building then the answer is yes.  A fire risk assessment is required for these communal areas which typically involve an entrance lobby areas and single timber staircase to the first floors and above.  The flat entrance doors lead off these lobby areas and form part of the assessment.

The reason for the assessment is to try to ensure that a fire in a flat will not have an impact on other parts of the building (communal areas and neighbouring flats) so will need to inspect at least one flat entrance door, determine whether a fire alarm system is required as well as emergency lighting.

This all depends on the buildings type, age, number of floors and construction.

For fast turnaround fire risk assessments contact us here:

Are you selling your flat and need a fire risk assessment for the communal areas?  Whale Fire can help.  We can carry these out at a competitive price and at short notice to reduce the stress for you.

If its really urgent, contact us and we will try and get this completed and the report with you within 24 hours.

Before you call we will need to know whether the flats are purpose-built, converted and how many flats and floors.

We will need to check at least one flat entrance door in the building during the assessment.

Call Whale Fire today on 0800 772 0738 or contact us through our enquiry page here: