Leasehold

An entryphone is noted at the common door. Has that door been fire-tested?

No. The common door has not been fire-tested. An entryphone noted at that door is a record of a release system, the handset or the button, not a test of the door leaf, the closer, the seals or the glazing. Fire performance is a different inspection from noticing how a guest is buzzed in. The survey did not time a closer, did not check cold-smoke seals, and did not certify the door. The entryphone can work while the door is still untested. Treat the note as a device seen, not as a fire certificate.

Last reviewed 24 October 2026. Written for buyers in England and Wales unless this answer says otherwise. No named surveyor has signed this page. It is general guidance, not a report on your house, and not legal advice.

What is the fuller explanation?

Common doors in blocks do several jobs at once: security, escape, and separation from the stair. An entryphone belongs to the security job. It says nothing reliable about whether the door shuts, whether strips are painted over, or whether the leaf is the one the building's fire papers describe. The survey of a flat notes what is at the entrance it used. It does not carry out a fire-door inspection of the block, and it does not read the fire risk assessment as if it had written it.

Ask the solicitor for the building's fire documents and for what they say about this door. Do not send the entryphone sentence to a lender as a fire test. If a fire-door inspection is required, that is a separate instruction. The survey has left the door's performance untested. A handset that answered on the day is a convenience. It is not evidence the stair is protected.

What should you ask your surveyor?

Does an entryphone note mean the common door was fire-tested?
Were closers and seals inspected as a fire test?
Is a working handset a certificate for the door?

What are the typical next steps?

Treat the common door as not fire-tested.
Ask the solicitor for the building's fire papers.
Do not describe the entryphone as a fire certificate.

Costs vary with the building and with who you instruct. Where this page does not cite a published figure, ask the surveyor, a relevant specialist, or your solicitor for a written quote. Do not treat a forum average as the price.

Also asked about this

Does the survey of one flat include every common door in the block?

No. It includes the doors the surveyor used or could see, and only to the extent the text describes them. Other landings may not have been entered. An entryphone at one door does not speak for the rest. Ask which doors were actually seen. Do not expand one handset into a fire survey of the block.

Can a landlord's fire risk assessment be assumed to match this door?

Not from this report. The assessment, if it exists, is the landlord's paper, and the survey has not audited it against the leaf, the seals or the closer. Ask the solicitor for it. The entryphone note does not confirm that the assessment is current or that this door matches what the assessment describes.