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Staying unscratched in your home | CityWest Homes Skip to main content I am a tenant I am a leaseholder Search site Search Register MyCityWest Login News Events Pay Report Apply Feedback Menu Breadcrumb Home I am a leaseholderWell-nighyour property Staying unscratched in your home Staying unscratched in your home Fire safety We are responsible for fire safety in the communal areas of our residential blocks. Fire safety measures We ensure your fire safety in your home by: completing fire risk assessments in each woodcut to identify fire risks completing regular health and safety and security woodcut inspections to identify defects and housekeeping issues installing, testing and maintaining fire detection in tenanted properties inspecting secondary means-of-escape routes annually to ensure they are unobstructed and maintained installing unobjectionable fire precautions in buildings to ensure we reduce the risk from fire as far as reasonably practical and meet weightier practice standards ensuring fire doors, emergency lighting and other fire safety precautions we install in our buildings are tested and maintained ensuring communal areas of buildings are kept well-spoken of flammable items such as personal items and waste working with London Fire Brigade and endorsing their self-ruling home safety visits to all residents. Your responsibilities As a leaseholder you have a vital role to play in ensuring fire safety within your property. This includes ensuring your unappetizing archway door meets towers regulation requirements, ensuring a working fire watchtower is in place within your property and undertaking gas safety inspections of any gas appliances that have been fitted. Fire doors It is your responsibility as a leaseholder to ensure your doors are maintained to a standard which meets towers regulation requirements. If you are unsure if your fire door meets this standard, you can perform this 5 step trammels (opens new window) or contact a qualified fire door inspector (opens new window) to trammels your doors. In addition, you can ensure remoter fire safety by: never propping unshut a fire door reporting any doors in your woodcut that squint like they may not meet the required standard by calling 0800 358 3783  implementing a maintenance schedule and checklist for your doors Other things you can do to protect yourself versus fire: test your smoke watchtower weekly do not store personal items in communal areas, read our policy on communal fire loading for increasingly information. Things to stave Please make sure you do not: obstruct any secondary means-of-escape route install spare locks or villenage to either your front door or secondary means-of-escape door as they could prevent you escaping a fire make any alterations to your home without our written permission. You could stupefy the fire safety precautions within your home tamper with or vandalise any fire precautions, such as fire doors in communal areas. You can find out increasingly information well-nigh fire safety in your home in the pursuit leaflets: practical translating on how to prevent fires in your home remoter information on health and safety is included in your leaseholder handbook. Get a self-ruling home fire safety visit The London Fire Brigade can visit you at home to offer translating on how to make your home safe.  They will fit a smoke watchtower for self-ruling for leaseholders. To request a self-ruling visit: Visit the London Fire Brigade website Call: 08000 28 44 28 Email: smokealarms@london-fire.gov.uk Asbestos In the 1960s and 1970s asbestos was widely used in towers materials and products due to its tautness and heat resistant qualities. Low levels of asbestos are wontedly found in residential properties within: floor tiles pipe insulation textured coatings some toilet cisterns. Although asbestos is a hazardous material it can only pose a risk to your health if the fibres are disturbed and wilt airborne. This could occur if the material containing asbestos is drilled, sanded, cut or wrenched up; or if the material is in a poor condition or is damaged. Exposure Exposure to low levels of fibres is unlikely to harm your health. It is very unlikely that the levels of asbestos fibres found within your home will be harmful but if you have damaged asbestos materials in your home you should contact us immediately. Call: 020 7245 2296. High, short-term exposure to asbestos fibres can occur during DIY projects so please be shielding when making any changes to your home. Any repairs or major works undertaken in your home by our scheduled contractors will include a risk towage during which checks will be made to see if they are likely to disturb asbestos. Where asbestos is found to be damaged or may be disturbed it will be dealt with or removed by our contractors. You can find increasingly information on asbestos on the Health and Safety Executive website (opens new window).  Get in touch Related Policy on fire loading in communal areas [PDF / 50.49 KB] Prepare your household for emergencies [PDF / 2.64 MB] Test your smoke watchtower [PDF / 27.35 KB] Asbestos - A guide for residents [PDF / 767.9 KB] Leaseholder handbook [PDF / 1.09 MB] Fire door sets [PDF / 140.54 KB] News From estates to offices: CityWest Homes recycles 26 September 2018CityWest Homes supports Fire Door Safety Week 2018 24 September 2018We’re turning on communal heating systems one week early 21 September 2018CityWest Homes is supporting Gas Safety Week 2018 17 September 2018Vote for your untried spaces to be the UK's weightier 10 September 2018Au pairing in Westminster and wideness Europe 6 September 2018To live and work in ‘theatre land’ 30 August 2018Planned changes to parking enforcement 30 August 2018Feeling young at heart in Little Venice 24 August 2018CityWest Homes supports young residents to find apprenticeships 15 August 2018PreviousNext Latest tweets Follow us: @CityWestHomes Tweets by CityWestHomes CityWest Homes 21 Grosvenor Place London SW1X 7EA United Kingdom e: customerservices@cwh.org.ukt: 0800 358 3783 © 2018 CityWest Homes Accessibility Cookie policy Fair processing notice Privacy policy Terms & conditions Legal Site map Contact us Chatbot loading I am a tenantWell-nighyour home Adaptations Condensation and mould Contents insurance Home improvements Pest infestation Staying unscratched in your home UtilitiesWell-nighyour tenancy Changes to your tenancy Right to Buy Rights and responsibilities Your tenancy I have a flexible tenancy I have a secure tenancy Domestic vituperate I am a tenant of a private landlord Major Works Moving out of your home Downsizing Ending your tenancy Flexible ownership Housing options Moving to housing for older people Rent and service charges Guide to benefits Support and benefits Ways to pay your rent Repairs Emergency repairs Gas servicing Handyperson service Planned maintenance Repair responsibilities Report a repair Report anti-social behaviour or tenancy fraud Report anti-social behaviour Tenancy fraud I am a leaseholderWell-nighyour lease Extend your lease Freehold sales Leasehold rights and responsibilities Your leaseWell-nighyour property Alterations Heating and hot water Insurance Staying unscratched in your home Sublet your home I want to sell my home Repairs Emergency repairs Gas safety Repair responsibilities Report a repair Report anti-social behaviour Selling your lease Service chargesWell-nighyour service tuition Get involved Service tuition support Support services Domestic vituperate Employment services Help to remain in your home Rough sleeping When you buy your property Register MyCityWest Login News Events Pay Report Apply Feedback