Fire Door Inspection Costs: What Surveys Charge in 2026
By the DC Fire & Security engineering team — installing and maintaining fire and security systems since 2010. Updated July 2026.
Quick answer
Fire door inspections are priced per door: £20–£30 each, moving to £20 a door once a job passes 20 doors, with minimum visit charges of £150–£450 +VAT depending on site size. The deliverable is a photographic report grading every door — compliant, remedial or replace — which is what the 2022 regulations, your fire risk assessor and, if it ever comes to it, enforcement all want to see.
Per-door prices by building type
Real jobs cluster by building type, because access — not the inspection itself — is what moves the price. Communal doors can be swept in one pass; flat entrance doors need appointment cycles.
| Building | Typical pricing | Typical job total (+VAT) |
|---|---|---|
| Small office, shop or single premises (a handful of doors) | Minimum visit charge | £150–£450 by site size |
| HMO, 5–12 doors | Minimum charge to £30/door | £250–£650 |
| Block of flats — communal doors only | From £20/door (20+ doors) | £450–£1,800 |
| Block of flats — including flat entrance doors | From £20/door + appointment cycles | Elapsed weeks, modest attendance days |
| School or care home, 40–150 doors | From £20/door | £800–£3,500 |
| Volume programme, 100+ doors across sites | From £20/door | Priced per schedule |
What the per-door fee buys
- Every door checked against its certification evidence: labels and plugs hunted down, gaps measured and recorded, seals, hinges, closer function, glazing, leaf and frame condition
- A photograph of every defect — the dispute-ending, funding-justifying part of the file
- Grading per door: compliant / remedial (with the specific task — seals, closer, gaps) / replace (with reasons)
- A door schedule with unique references, mapped to the quarterly and annual check duties for blocks
- Access run properly: communal sweeps unaccompanied, flat entrance doors by appointment cycle, with the best-endeavours record the regulations expect when a resident won't answer
What the 2022 rules changed
The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 turned fire door checking from a good idea into a schedule. In residential buildings over 11 metres, the responsible person now runs quarterly checks on communal doors and annual checks on every flat entrance door. A professional survey is year zero: it establishes the baseline schedule, and the routine checks keep it current. We run the check rounds for clients or train their own staff to do it — either works, as long as the records exist.
Enforcement follows the paperwork. When a fire service auditor asks about doors, what they want is the schedule, the photos and the dates — not assurances.
Inspection and remedials from one contractor
Most survey reports die in an inbox because the findings need a second contractor to price them. We do both sides: the survey stands alone as an independent report, and if you want the defects priced, remedials come as a separate line-item quote — light remedial visit £350 including re-check and certificate, full door refurbishment £950, new FD30S doorsets £1,350–£1,500. One contractor, one schedule, no gap between finding a defect and closing it.
The report is yours either way. Plenty of clients take our survey and tender the works — the per-door grading makes that straightforward.
About the free survey
A free fire door survey is a sales visit. The inspection cost gets recouped in the remedial quote, which is why free-survey remedial lists run long. There are also anonymous online services ranking for inspection-cost searches right now with no company name, address or registration behind them — they collect your enquiry and sell it on. Use a named firm, ask who actually attends, and expect the survey priced on its own two feet.
Recent inspection work
We cover Luton, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and North London, with volume programmes further afield by arrangement.
- Two-school inspection programme, 230+ doors, summer 2026 — surveyed during holidays, per-door schedule delivered for the September term
- 50-door inspection and remedial schedule for a contractor on a government science campus
- HMO portfolio surveys across Luton for a private landlord — licensing-ready records per property
Frequently Asked Questions
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