Fire Risk and Asbestos Q: We are the leaseholders of a Victorian house converted into five flats, the fifth of which is a self-contained basement flat. We run our own management company. The owner of the basement flat wishes to sell, and his potential purchaser’s solicitor has asked for a fire risk assessment of the …
Q: We were built in 1996 and according to plans the flats are compartmentalised. We’re checking safety, and are wondering about the “stay put” recommendation found in all the guides from Government and ARMA. It feels intuitively right for tall blocks (even after Grenfell) but wrong for our three/four stories with five separate staircases. …
Q: Our Fire Risk Assessment suggested we should consider a lightning conductor. Of course, we have never been struck by lightning, but there is always a first time! And of course, any risk assessor would put in anything possible, even if unlikely, to protect themselves. We are six stories high and next to the sea, …
Q: Our block is an Art Deco building of forty flats, locally listed as a building of special interest in a Conservation Area. Each leaseholder owns one-fortieth of the freehold. After decades of neglect, we are currently undergoing extensive refurbishment to restore the building to its former grandeur. A recent fire safety inspection listed a …
Q: We have been asked to supply Fire Procedure Notices in our communal areas following our recent fire risk and asbestos assessments. Is this something you could provide us with? Alternatively, can you please advise where we can get such notices from. We need to display our fire procedure plus “In the Case of Fire…..” …
Q: One of our apartments is in the process of being sold. The purchaser’s Solicitor has asked us to provide a Fire Risk Assessment and ask the sellers solicitor to advise us of a our legal obligation to obtain such a certificate. Some years ago we arranged with our local Fire Service for an Officer …
Q: Can you provide any guidance around Fire Risk Assessments? A buyer’s solicitor has recently written to us: “Fire Risk Assessment is a legal requirement for any property with common areas, rather than an insurer’s requirement.” Does this sound correct? Is there a particular format that this should be in? FPRA Chairman Bob Smytherman …
Q: We are a development of 40 flats arranged over three floors and like many others we have the ground and first floors flats’ cold water tank in the roof space in the communal stairwell (the top floor flat has its tank in the loft space above the flat ). Each flat has a hot …