EPC and fire risk assessment package from £179

You cannot market a property to let or sell in England without a valid Energy Performance Certificate, and since April 2020 you cannot continue to let a domestic property rated F or G under the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard unless a valid exemption is registered. Separately, if the building has any communal area — a shared hall, a stair, a bin store, a plant room — the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires a recorded fire risk assessment for those parts, and for HMOs and short-term lets the fire duty applies to the let accommodation itself. The two requests almost always arrive together: a letting agent asks for the EPC and the FRA, a licensing officer asks for the FRA and the EPC, a lender's valuer asks for both. Booking them as one job halves the access arrangements and reduces the fee.

Team EPC is the energy performance practice owned and run by Awais Sarwar — the same person behind our fire work — which is why the two sit together so easily. Its accredited assessors produce domestic and commercial EPCs lodged on the national register, SAP calculations for new build and conversion, and Part L compliance advice for refurbishment and change of use. On this package the energy assessor measures and photographs the property, records construction, glazing, heating, controls, insulation and lighting, produces the certificate, and lodges it. You receive the certificate reference and the PDF, plus a short note in plain English explaining which of the recommendations would actually move the band and roughly what they cost — the recommendations page alone is rarely useful.

The fire side is a full PAS 79 assessment by an IFSM-registered assessor: means of escape, compartmentation and fire-stopping, fire doors, detection and alarm coverage and grade, emergency lighting, extinguishers and signage, ignition sources, combustible storage and the management arrangements. It is photographed throughout and produces a prioritised action plan with timescales, not a tick-box certificate. For a single let flat within a block, we assess the demise and the communal areas you are responsible for and tell you plainly which parts belong to the freeholder.

For a single property both assessors attend at the same appointment and are typically on site for an hour to ninety minutes between them; only one access arrangement is needed and the tenant is disturbed once. For a block or a portfolio we run the two in convoy across a day, working through the units in an agreed order. The EPC is normally lodged within 24 to 48 hours of the visit, and the fire report is issued within 24 hours. Both arrive as one pack with one covering summary, and one invoice follows.

The package starts at £179 for a single flat or small house and is priced on property size, number of units and location. Because the two visits become one, the travel, access and administration cost is shared and the package sits below the two services bought individually — we will show you both numbers so the saving is visible rather than asserted. Portfolio landlords and managing agents get a per-unit rate, a scheduled run of visits and a single renewal calendar covering ten-year EPC expiries and annual fire reviews.