Thousands of doors. One regulator. No margin for a gap.
Social housing carries the heaviest fire door obligation in the country and the tightest constraints on meeting it. Quarterly communal checks, annual flat entrance door checks, a safety case for every high-rise, a regulator with real consumer standards behind it — and a capital programme that was set before any of it.
75%
of UK fire doors fail inspection
Source to confirm
Quarterly
communal door checks required
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
Annual
flat entrance door checks required
Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
What actually goes wrong here
01
Access is the whole problem
A flat entrance door you cannot get to is a compliance gap you cannot close. No-access rates of 20–30% on first attempt are normal, and each repeat visit costs money and produces nothing.
02
Evidence sits in four systems
Inspection contractor, repairs contractor, housing management system, and a shared drive. Assembling one auditable record per door is a manual exercise repeated every time someone asks.
03
The remedial backlog compounds
Faults found at inspection go into a repairs queue. By the time they are attended the defect has grown, and the door that needed a hinge now needs replacing.
04
Scrutiny is permanent now
The Building Safety Act, the Regulator’s consumer standards, tenant satisfaction measures and the coroner’s courts. Compliance is no longer something demonstrated annually.
What changes for housing associations
One visit per door, then it reports itself
Access is still needed once, to fit. After that the door’s condition is known continuously without anyone getting back into the property.
A single auditable record
Every event, inspection, repair and replacement against the door, in one place, attributable to a named responsible person.
Faults caught while they are cheap
Continuous data means a defect is found in the week it appears, not in the quarter it is discovered — which is where the remedial saving comes from.
Safety case evidence, generated
For high-rise buildings the door element of the safety case is produced from live data rather than reconstructed from files.
“We had four contractors, three spreadsheets and no way of answering a simple question: is every fire door in this building working right now? Six weeks after fitting Parilon we could answer it in one screen.”
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Head of Building Safety, regional housing provider
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