The true cost of periodic fire door inspection
Where the money actually goes: inspection contracts, the remedial backlog periodic checking creates, premature replacement, and the admin overhead of assembling evidence four times a year.
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The line item on the budget is the inspection contract. It is rarely the largest number. Four visits a year to a 1,200-door estate produces a remedial backlog, a replacement schedule and an evidence pack, and each of those costs more than the visit that generated it.
What periodic inspection actually buys
A quarterly check tells you the state of a door on the day someone looked at it. Between visits the estate is unobserved, and the failure modes that matter most — a door propped open, a closer that has stopped closing — are the ones that appear and disappear without leaving a mark for the next inspector to find.
The four places the money goes
Contract cost, remedial work triggered by sampling rather than by condition, replacement of doors that could have been repaired if the fault had been caught earlier, and the staff time to assemble evidence for a regulator four times a year.
Placeholder copy. The figures in this whitepaper must come from Parilon's own data before publication.
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