Leicestershire · LE1

Annual Flat Entrance Door Checks in Leicester

Need a flat entrance door check in Leicester? Tell us the building and roughly how many doors, and we will confirm a fixed price before booking.

In short: 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: Leicester
County / area: Leicestershire
Local authority: Leicester
Postcode district: LE1
Region: East Midlands
Population: Around 370,000 people
Fire safety law: England: Fire Safety Order 2005 + regulation 10 above 11 m
Nearest town: Oadby (5 km)

Typical Leicester fire door jobs

Student accommodation and HMOs are a big part of the building stock in Leicester, and bedroom door closers and seals in shared housing take heavy wear every term. We can work early, late or at weekends in Leicester where residents, pupils or patients make daytime access difficult.

What's included in Leicester?

Door, frame, gaps, seals, closer, letter plate and spy hole checked
Flags for doors replaced by residents without fire rating evidence
Resident notification letters and booking slots
A per-flat result that can be shared with the leaseholder
A written record of every attempt where access is refused or not possible

Alterations	No unauthorised replacement, cat flaps, extra locks or cut-down leaves.
Seals	Intumescent and smoke seals present and continuous around the leaf.
Letter plate	Letter plates and spy holes are fire-rated and intact.

Full details on our annual flat entrance door checks page.

What to expect in Leicester

Booked around you

Visits in Leicester are booked around residents, pupils or patients, including early, late and weekend slots by arrangement.

Photos of every defect

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

One contact

One point of contact for inspections, repairs and replacements across Leicester and Leicestershire.

Fire door law for Leicester buildings

Leicester is in England, so the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies to the common parts and non-domestic premises, and regulation 10 adds quarterly communal and annual flat entrance door checks in residential buildings with storeys over 11 metres.

What will it cost in Leicester?

Typical Leicester prices: £15–£28 per flat (ex VAT), confirmed as a fixed price before work starts. Get a guide price for your Leicester building.

Annual Flat Entrance Door Checks in Leicester: questions

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.

Can you check the doors from the corridor only?

Part of the check can be done from outside, but the self-closer and the inside face need access to the flat. Where we cannot get in we record what was checked and why the rest was not possible.

Which fire safety law applies in Leicester?

Leicester is in England, so the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies, together with the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 for multi-occupied residential buildings.

Do you cover the area around Leicester?

Yes. As well as Leicester itself we cover nearby towns including Oadby, Wigston Magna and Loughborough.