Can the same company do my EPC and my fire risk assessment?
It can, and it should, because the two duties usually land on the same person at the same time. An EPC is required under the Energy Performance of Buildings Regulations whenever a home is sold, let or newly built. A fire risk assessment is required under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 for the common parts of any building containing two or more dwellings, and for every workplace. They are different pieces of law, assessed by different competencies, but they concern the same building and the same access arrangements — which is exactly why splitting them across two suppliers wastes time and money. Team EPC issues the certificate; Fire Risk Specialists, the sister brand under the same ownership, produces the fire risk assessment. You instruct once.
What the combined instruction covers
The scope depends on the building, but a typical residential instruction covers the energy assessment of the dwelling or dwellings and a fire risk assessment of the common parts, with recommendations prioritised so you can see what has to be done now and what can wait.
- RdSAP energy survey and EPC lodged on the national EPC Register
- Fire risk assessment of the common parts under the Fire Safety Order
- Significant findings recorded with a prioritised action plan
- Fire door, escape route, signage and emergency lighting observations
- One coordinated date, one contact, one consolidated invoice
- Advice on what the findings mean for letting, selling or insuring the building
Why buyers of compliance keep asking for both
Freeholders, managing agents and landlords rarely have a single outstanding item. A block coming up for re-letting needs certificates per flat and a current fire risk assessment for the stairwell. A house being converted needs an EPC and a fire risk assessment for the shared parts. A commercial owner needs a non-domestic EPC and a workplace fire risk assessment on the same renewal cycle. When those arrive from two firms on two dates with two invoices, something always slips — usually the fire risk assessment, which has no marketing deadline pushing it forward. Booked together, they arrive together and stay on the same renewal date from then on.
What it costs
The EPC element is priced from our published bands: £69 for a one to three bedroom flat, £89 for a house or bungalow up to four bedrooms, £119 for a five to seven bedroom house, plus £7 per extension and £10 for a loft conversion, with travel added by zone. The fire risk assessment is priced on the size and layout of the building and the number of floors and flats it serves, and it is quoted in writing with the EPC before anything is booked. Bundled together the total is lower than instructing the two separately, because there is one mobilisation, one set of access arrangements and one administrative process.
- EPC element from £69 for a 1-3 bedroom flat
- Fire risk assessment quoted on floors, flats and layout
- Bundle priced below the two booked separately
- One written quote covering both, before you commit
How the two visits are sequenced
Where the building allows it, both surveys happen on the same day, which is usually the case for a single dwelling or a small block. On larger buildings the fire risk assessment often needs longer in the common parts than the energy survey needs in the flats, so we schedule the fire assessment first and run the EPC surveys around resident access. Either way you get one schedule in advance, not two sets of appointment texts, and both reports land with a single covering summary explaining what each one requires you to do next.
