Fire Compliance, Brought Under Control

When you are responsible for fire safety across several buildings, knowing exactly where you stand is hard. We find out, put right what needs it and keep your buildings compliant, with evidence you can stand behind.

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Vanguard Fire Protection operative carrying out fire door remediation work

Built for estates managers and block managers

If you manage a trust’s schools, a college campus, a group of care homes or a portfolio of residential blocks, fire safety is one responsibility among many, and a specialist one. Records get inherited, fire risk assessments raise the same actions year after year, and boards, governors and leaseholders rightly expect clear answers.

We help you give them. We work across Sussex, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire, and passive fire protection is all we do. The same team inspects your buildings, carries out the work and maintains them afterwards, so nothing gets lost between contractors and you always have a clear picture of where things stand.

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Fire Door and Passive Fire Protection Services

Delivered by one team across Sussex, Surrey, Kent and Hampshire. Every service is part of the ARM Process, so you can start wherever your buildings need it.

  • Cutaway of a fire-resisting partition wall showing the insulation and lining layers

    Fire Compartmentation Surveys

    Detailed assessment of your building’s fire-resisting walls and floors to identify breaches or non-compliances that will increase the likelihood of rapid fire spread, giving your a clear understanding of what must be done to retain fire separation.

  • Vanguard engineer inspecting the hinges of a timber fire door

    Fire Door Inspections

    Thorough, certified inspections of your fire doors to support you in your legal duties and to keep on top of any issues affecting their functionality as fire safety equipment.

  • Vanguard engineer fitting a new fire door

    Fire Door Installations

    From design to sign off, our expert team will ensure every detail of your fire door installations meet the strict tested specification. Resulting in a fire door that not only holds back fire and smoke, but is in-keeping with your buildings design.

  • Vanguard engineer carrying out maintenance on a fire door

    Fire Door Maintenance

    Proactive maintenance maximising your fire doors life-cycle and ensuring they are always ready to prevent the spread of fire and smoke.

  • Cutaway illustration of firestopped service penetrations through a fire-rated wall and floor

    Firestopping Installations

    Compliant, clean firestopping applications to openings of services such as cables, pipes and ducting within fire-rated compartments to slow the spread of fire and smoke, supporting a safe escape in an emergency.

The ARM Process: Assess, Reinstate, Maintain

How fire safety compliance works, start to finish

One connected programme rather than three separate jobs. Assess tells you where your buildings stand, Reinstate puts the physical work right, and Maintain keeps you compliant year after year. You can start at any stage, and you are never committed to the next one.

Assess

Fire door inspections, fire risk assessments and fire compartmentation surveys that establish exactly where you stand today.

  • Fire door inspections
  • Fire risk assessments (Type 1 and Type 3)
  • Fire compartmentation surveys and plans
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Reinstate

Fire door remediation, replacement and firestopping, carried out against the findings rather than a generic scope.

  • Fire door repairs and upgrades
  • Fire door replacement and installation
  • Firestopping installation
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Maintain

Fire door maintenance contracts that keep your buildings compliant as they age, on a schedule that fits your budget cycle and reporting year.

  • Maintain Essential: inspections, gap adjustment, hinge servicing
  • Maintain Plus: adds seal replacement and closer adjustment
  • Maintain Premier: adds filler repair and lock servicing
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If a door is fine, we will tell you it's fine

Every recommendation we make is grounded in current legislation, test evidence and best practice. Most fire doors do not need replacing. Where a door can be brought back to standard with the right components and a competent repair, we say so, and we show you the cost difference before you commit. Where something genuinely falls short, we tell you clearly and show you how to fix it.

Every action, from inspection through to remedial works, is recorded with photographs against the original finding. That gives you an evidence trail you can hand to your fire risk assessor, your insurer or your board. We also track changes to standards and regulations, so your buildings stay compliant as the rules change.

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Fire safety that fits around the rest of your job

Most of the people we work with are looking after several sites, reporting to a trust board, governors or a residents’ committee, and working within budget cycles that do not move just because a survey has found something. In residential blocks, every pound spent also has to stand up to leaseholder questions and service charge scrutiny.

We plan our work around that. Findings come with a clear priority order so you can budget over time, works are quoted line by line so you can approve or defer each item, and every report is written to be shared upwards without needing translation.

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How we work with you

Whichever service you start with, these three things stay the same.

  • Reports you can share

    Every inspection and survey produces a digital report with photographs, a clear priority for each finding and a plain summary you can put in front of a board, governors or a residents’ group.

  • Costs you can plan around

    Works are quoted line by line against the findings, so you can approve, defer or budget for each item rather than signing off one large number.

  • A record that stays complete

    Remedial work is recorded against the original finding, and planned maintenance keeps that record current, so your evidence trail runs from the first survey to the present day without gaps.

The Responsible Person’s Fire Door Handbook

A free, plain-English guide to your duties under the Fire Safety Order and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022: how often fire doors should be inspected, how to spot common problems and what to expect from a competent contractor.

Written for estates managers, block managers and responsible persons who want clear answers without the legal jargon.

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Talk it through with us

Most of our work starts with a short call. You tell us about your buildings, what you already hold and what is on your mind, and we give you an honest view of where you stand and what, if anything, needs to happen next.

No site visit is booked until we both agree it is the right next step.

Call us on 0333 339 7225 or book a 30-minute call to speak to someone who works in passive fire protection every day.

  • Clarity in what’s required and what’s been done
  • Confidence that you’re meeting your responsibilities
  • Control over your properties’ fire safety performance
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