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Fire Door Compliance for Landlords and Rented Property

Sentinel Projects helps landlords and buy-to-let owners meet fire door requirements in rented property across Northampton, Cambridge, Oxford, London and the rest of the UK. A single rented flat or house is not an HMO, but the front door and internal doors still have obligations of their own. We are FireQual-qualified and BlueSky-certified.

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Requirements for rented property

Residential fire door showing certified hinges and letterplate
Certified hinges and letterplate on a residential fire door.
A single let is not an HMO, so it does not carry HMO licensing conditions. But the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 still applies to the common parts of any building containing more than one household, and the front entrance door to your flat is usually the first line of defence between your tenant and a fire starting elsewhere in the building.

Where a rented house or flat sits in a converted or purpose-built block, the front door is very often expected to be a fire door, and internal doors on escape routes may need to be too. Landlords are increasingly asked for evidence of this at the point of sale, remortgage, or when a managing agent reviews the block, and a wood fire door bought without the right certification does not count.

A fire door inspection tells you exactly where your property stands. If your existing doors are compliant, you get the record to prove it. If a replacement fire front door is needed, our fire door installation service quotes it clearly, with no obligation to book the work with us. See our guide to installation cost for what to expect.

What we do for landlords

Inspection

Front and internal doors checked against the current standard, with a photographed report you can keep on file or pass to your agent.

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Installation

Certified replacement fire front doors for flats and houses, fitted with the right seals, hinges and closer to hold the rating.

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Remediation

Where the existing door can be brought up to standard rather than replaced, we do that instead, usually the cheaper, quicker route.

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Fire stopping

Sealing gaps in communal areas of converted properties, where a compliant door in a breached wall still fails.

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A single-property survey usually takes under an hour. For a small portfolio, we can visit several addresses in one trip and give you one report covering all of them.

How it works

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Survey

We assess the doors in your rented property and tell you plainly what passes and what does not.

Report

You get a photographed report and a clear list of what needs doing, with no pressure to book further work.

Works

We deliver around your tenancy, scheduling access with your tenant or agent to cause the least disruption.

Certification

You get the records for your own files, your insurer, or your managing agent to keep on record.

Common questions

If the flat sits in a building with other households, the front entrance door is very often expected to be a fire door, even though the property is not an HMO. A survey confirms the position for your specific building.

An HMO has its own licensing conditions with specific fire door requirements. A single let does not carry HMO licensing, but the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 still applies to shared parts of the building, so the front door and any doors onto communal escape routes usually still need to meet the standard.

Yes. Most landlord enquiries are for a single property or a small handful, and a single-property survey usually takes under an hour.

Yes. You get a photographed report you can pass on as evidence of compliance, whether that is requested by an agent, a lender, or an insurer.

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Find out where your fire doors stand, whether it is one property or a small portfolio.

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Installation and Remediation of Fire Doors

What BS 8214:2026 requires, and how to tell whether an installation has been done correctly. The same guide applies whichever part of the country your building is in.

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