Did you know that it is a recommendation under the LACORS fire safety guidance provisions, that all landlords should carry out a fire risk assessment on their property before letting to ensure that their property is safe?

Many don't, and very few people do, so you are not alone, but over the last few weeks, I have been training my new business staff on this very important document, and then had them carry out simple fire risk assessments firstly on their own homes, and then on other peoples properties, and finally drawing up a conversion Fire Safety plan for converting commercial units into HMO's, bedsits or flats so that they really get into the nitty gritty.

It has been a thoroughly rewarding and fascinating exercise, apart from the fact that most of us initially felt the need to move house! Many of us go by day to day, talking about protecting tenants with smoke alarms, electrical certificates, gas certificates, carbon monoxide detectors. However, as most of my staff discovered those landlords live in extremely unsafe homes themselves!