East Sussex · BN1

Annual Flat Entrance Door Checks in Brighton

Responsible persons in Brighton can book flat entrance door checks with clear reports, useful photos and itemised prices.

Annual flat entrance door checks are the yearly checks of each flat's front door, and its self-closer, that regulation 10 requires on a best-endeavours basis in English residential buildings with storeys over 11 metres.

Town: Brighton
County / area: East Sussex
Local authority: Brighton and Hove
Postcode district: BN1
Region: South East England
Population: Around 280,000 people
Fire safety law: England: Fire Safety Order 2005 + regulation 10 above 11 m
Nearest town: Hove (2 km)

Typical Brighton fire door jobs

Brighton has many converted townhouses now used as flats, guest houses or care homes, where original doors have been upgraded with mixed results. For flat entrance door checks, we group Brighton visits with nearby buildings wherever possible to keep your price down.

Included as standard in Brighton

Door, frame, gaps, seals, closer, letter plate and spy hole checked
Resident notification letters and booking slots
Flags for doors replaced by residents without fire rating evidence
Repeat visits for missed appointments
A written record of every attempt where access is refused or not possible

Letter plate	Letter plates and spy holes are fire-rated and intact.
Closer	A self-closing device is fitted and closes the door fully against the frame.
Seals	Intumescent and smoke seals present and continuous around the leaf.

Full details on our annual flat entrance door checks page.

Why Brighton clients choose us

One contact

One point of contact for inspections, repairs and replacements across Brighton and East Sussex.

Records you can use

PDF and spreadsheet records for every Brighton building, ready for your fire risk assessor.

Photos of every defect

You get photographs of every defect found in Brighton, linked to a door reference you can find again.

Fire door law for Brighton buildings

As Brighton is in England, responsible persons must maintain fire doors under the Fire Safety Order 2005, give residents fire door information in buildings with two or more flats, and run regulation 10 checks where a storey is over 11 metres.

What will it cost in Brighton?

Guide prices for flat entrance door checks in Brighton are typically £15–£28 per flat, ex VAT. Get a guide price for your Brighton building.

Common questions in Brighton

Do you cover the area around Brighton?

Yes. As well as Brighton itself we cover nearby towns including Hove, Portslade and Rottingdean.

Who is responsible for a flat entrance fire door?

It depends on the lease, but since the Fire Safety Act 2021 the Fire Safety Order clearly covers flat entrance doors in multi-occupied residential buildings, so the responsible person must account for them in the fire risk assessment even where the leaseholder owns the door.

What does best endeavours mean?

The government fact sheet describes it as the responsible person deciding how to engage residents to gain access and keeping evidence, such as correspondence, where access is refused or not possible.

Does regulation 10 apply to buildings in Brighton?

Yes, if the building is a multi-occupied residential building with storeys over 11 metres. Brighton is in England, so the quarterly communal door checks and annual flat entrance door checks apply to those buildings.