Non-compliant fire doors and further fire safety issues?

Having had a Fire Risk Assessment a few months ago, it seems the first since the building was completed (a conversion of an office block), we now find that apart from the usual rubbish fire stopping, possible cladding issues we are also facing a huge bill for non-compliant fire doors.

Some doors have been made to fit the frame, not ‘true’ with too much shaved off, lots of foam in lots of gaps and various other issues, we are not talking about a bit of squashed intumescent strips.

We have just taken on the Right to Manage and obviously asking questions, no one can produce the original fire door certification, or any other certification for that matter, we are using the same management company as there was a very complicated issue that we have managed to deal with since taking over (management hadn’t dealt with it but they held the info).

There are many issues with the building which will amount to probably a couple of hundred pounds to fix and these fire issues have to be done to ensure that we can be insured as a building (the insurer has given us 6 months to sort this out). I’ve no idea why (maybe if) the building was insured in the past.

Surely there must be some ‘body’ we can go to with this as it is clearly a developer issue of shoddy and potentially dangerous works?

I think this may be the tip of the iceberg but it does need dealing with asap.

Harlequin Garden