How Much Does a Fire Risk Assessment Cost in Nottingham?
Transparent pricing by property type. The quote covers the visit, the written report and the action plan. All prices include the written report and action plan.
Fire Risk Assessment Prices — Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
The prices below are starting prices for properties in and around Nottingham. Final pricing is confirmed before any visit is booked — there are no surprises. All prices include the written fire risk assessment report produced to PAS 79-1:2020 standard.
| Property Type | Starting Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Small office or shop (up to 200 m²) | From £200 | Written report included |
| HMO — 3 to 4 bedrooms | From £250 | Written report included |
| HMO — 5 to 7 bedrooms | From £350 | Written report included |
| HMO — 8 to 12 bedrooms | From £450 | Quote on request |
| Converted house — 2 to 4 flats (communal areas) | From £280 | Written report included |
| Block of flats — communal areas | From £300 | Per building |
| Medium office (200 to 500 m²) | From £300 | Written report included |
| Large office (500 to 1,000 m²) | From £400 | Written report included |
| Care home — up to 20 beds | From £450 | Includes PEEP framework |
| Care home — 21 to 50 beds | From £650 | Full PEEP documentation |
| Care home — 51 to 80 beds | From £850 | Compartmentation survey included |
| School or college | From £350 | Quote on request for larger sites |
| Church or community hall | From £250 | Written report included |
| Hotel or guest house | From £350 | Sleeping risk premises |
| Warehouse or industrial unit | From £350 | By floor area and hazard profile |
| Portfolio of 3+ properties | Discounted rate | Contact us for portfolio pricing |
What Affects the Price of a Fire Risk Assessment?
Fire risk assessment pricing is not arbitrary — it reflects the time the inspection takes and the complexity of the written report. The main factors are:
Everything above is a range, not a fixed fee — the figure for any one building depends on the details. If you would rather skip the ranges, get a fire risk assessment quote for your building and we will come back with a price.
Size of the Premises
Larger buildings take longer to inspect and produce more detailed reports. A 5,000 sq ft office takes significantly longer than a 500 sq ft shop.
Number of Floors
Multi-floor buildings require assessment of stairwells, lift lobbies, compartmentation between floors and additional escape routes. Each floor adds time.
Occupant Vulnerability
Sleeping risk premises (care homes, hotels, HMOs) and buildings with vulnerable occupants require specialist knowledge and more detailed documentation — particularly PEEPs for care homes.
Hazard Complexity
Buildings with unusual hazards — oxygen storage, flammable goods, complex M&E services — take longer to assess and document than simple, low-risk premises.
Compartmentation Survey
If the building has fire compartmentation concerns or a history of alterations, a detailed compartmentation survey may be required alongside the assessment. This adds to the price.
Report Complexity
A building with many findings requires a longer, more detailed report. PAS 79-1:2020 sets out the required format and content — we follow it for every assessment.
What Is — and Isn’t — Included in the Price
Always included
- On-site inspection by a qualified, IFSM-registered assessor
- Written fire risk assessment report to PAS 79-1:2020
- Prioritised action plan with recommended timescales
- Risk ratings for all identified significant findings
- Digital copy of the report (PDF)
- Annual renewal reminder (60 days before review date)
Not included (available separately)
- Fire marshal training or warden training
- Compartmentation surveys (available as an add-on)
- Supply or installation of fire safety equipment
- Fire door replacement or repair
- Electrical condition reports (EICR)
Frequently Asked Questions — Pricing
How to Spot a Bad Fire Risk Assessment
There is a pattern in this industry that costs landlords money, and it is worth knowing about before you book anyone — including us.
It works like this. An assessor quotes noticeably below everyone else. They visit, spend a short time on site, and produce a report listing a long set of deficiencies. The following day, an email arrives quoting for the remedial works — a fire door survey, new doors, detection upgrades. The assessment was never really the product. It was the sales call.
The variant that catches people out most often is misclassification. A property gets assessed against HMO standards when it is not an HMO, which generates findings that do not apply and works that are not required. Landlords have reported paying for a report, challenging it, getting a refund, and then obtaining a clean report elsewhere for less money.
Warning signs worth taking seriously
- A quote given without asking how many floors and rooms the property has — the two things that actually determine the work
- An inspection that takes twenty minutes for a multi-storey property
- A report that arrives alongside, or immediately before, a quote for remedial works
- Findings that do not match the building — the classic being a non-HMO assessed as an HMO
- Existing compliant equipment not recorded, making the property look worse than it is
- Generic wording that could describe any building, with no reference to your specific layout
- No register number, no professional indemnity details, no sample report offered
Six Questions to Ask Any Fire Risk Assessor
Ask these of us, and ask them of whoever else you are considering. A competent assessor will answer all six without hesitation.
1. What is your register number and tier?
Individual assessor competence is set out in BS 8674:2025 and reflected in the IFSM National Fire Risk Assessors Register, which has three tiers — Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced. Intermediate covers typical commercial and residential premises. Advanced is for high-rise residential and complex healthcare. Note that the register moved away from the older “Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3” labels, so a site still using that language has not updated in a while.
2. What is your professional indemnity limit?
The assessment is a professional opinion you are relying on. If it is wrong and you act on it, their PI cover is what stands behind it. Ask for the figure, not just confirmation that cover exists.
3. Can I see a sample report?
This single question filters out most poor providers. You are looking for findings tied to specific locations in a building, a prioritised action plan with timescales, and language you can actually act on — not a checklist of yes/no boxes.
4. Have you assessed this building type before?
A 6-bed student HMO in Lenton and a 40-bed care home are not the same job. Sleeping risk premises, listed buildings and mixed-use conversions each require specific knowledge. Ask directly.
5. Do you sell the works you recommend?
If the answer is yes, the assessment is not independent. That is not automatically disqualifying — plenty of good firms do both — but you should know before you book, and you should price the remedial quote against the open market.
6. What type of assessment is this?
Assessments run from Type 1 to Type 4. Type 1 — a non-destructive inspection of communal areas — is the standard for most HMOs and blocks. Higher types involve opening up construction and cost considerably more. Make sure you are being quoted for, and are getting, the type your building actually needs.
Three Things We Do Differently
We do not sell the work we recommend
No fire doors, no alarm installation, no extinguisher contracts. The assessment is the whole product, which means we have no reason to find problems that are not there. If you want the remedial work done, we will tell you what to ask for and you can put it out to tender.
We will tell you if you do not need one
Not every property requires a formal fire risk assessment. A single-let house with no communal areas does not, under the Fire Safety Order — though smoke and carbon monoxide alarm rules still apply. If you contact us about a property that does not need an assessment, we will say so rather than take the booking. It costs us a job and saves you a few hundred pounds.
We will not quote without knowing the building
A price given over the phone before anyone has asked how many floors and rooms there are is a guess, and guesses get revised upwards later. We ask about storeys, room count, cellar access and building age before quoting, and the number we give is the number you pay.
Fire Safety Terms, in Plain English
The industry uses a lot of shorthand. Here is what it actually means.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Responsible person | The legal duty-holder. For a rented property with communal areas, usually the landlord or the managing agent. For a workplace, the employer. It is a legal role, not a job title, and you can hold it without knowing you do. |
| Suitable and sufficient | The legal standard the assessment has to meet. Deliberately not defined by a checklist — it means proportionate to the actual risk of that specific building. It is why a template filled in with generic answers does not satisfy the law. |
| Type 1 to Type 4 | The scope of the assessment. Type 1 is non-destructive and covers communal areas — the standard for most HMOs and blocks. Types 2 to 4 involve progressively more intrusive investigation, including opening up construction. Higher types cost significantly more and are not needed for most properties. |
| Grade and category (e.g. Grade D LD2) | How the alarm system is specified. The grade describes the system type — Grade D means mains-powered detectors with battery backup. The category describes coverage — LD2 covers escape routes plus high-risk rooms, LD3 covers escape routes only. Most licensed HMOs need at least Grade D LD2. |
| Compartmentation | The walls, floors and doors that hold fire in one part of a building for a set period, usually 30 or 60 minutes. It is the thing most often quietly destroyed by later alterations — a cable run through a wall, a downlight cut into a ceiling. |
| Means of escape | The route from anywhere in the building to a final exit. Assessed on distance, width, protection and whether it can be used by everyone who might need it. |
| PAS 79-1:2020 | The published standard setting out how a fire risk assessment should be carried out and written up for non-housing premises. If an assessor cannot tell you which methodology their report follows, that is informative. |
| LACORS | The national guidance document local authorities use for fire safety in housing. It is what your council’s HMO standards are built on, and it contains worked examples by property type. |
| Stay put | An evacuation strategy for purpose-built blocks where compartmentation is good enough that residents not directly affected stay in their flats. It depends entirely on the compartmentation being intact — which is why assessments on blocks scrutinise it so hard. |
| PEEP | Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan. An individual plan for someone who cannot evacuate unaided. Standard in care homes, increasingly expected in residential buildings. |
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