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SeeForth Services High level work. Low level stress. Fire safety, working at height and planned maintenance for London property portfolios — one trusted partner across your sites.

We care about cleaning and always provide a professional service.

The glass nobody looks up at.Entrance canopies catch everything the building drops: leaves, dust, bird mess, the run-off...
19/10/2026

The glass nobody looks up at.

Entrance canopies catch everything the building drops: leaves, dust, bird mess, the run-off from every window above. From the ground they just look grey. From the floors above, and to anyone who glances up on the way in, they say a lot about how the building is looked after.

We clean them with the windows rather than leaving them for someone to notice. Worth checking whether yours is on the schedule — most schedules forget it.

Our managing director, Lawrence Seaforth:The report should be as good as the work.I say it to every crew and every asses...
16/10/2026

Our managing director, Lawrence Seaforth:

The report should be as good as the work.

I say it to every crew and every assessor we work with. A clean building is half the job. The other half is the record that proves it — what was done, where and when, with the photographs to show it — so the person responsible for the building never has to take our word for anything.

It's the part nobody sees until they need it. That's exactly why we take it seriously.

What a good fire risk assessment report contains — part two: the order of the actions.Most reports list their findings i...
14/10/2026

What a good fire risk assessment report contains — part two: the order of the actions.

Most reports list their findings in the order the assessor walked round. Ground floor first, roof last. The thing that matters most can be sitting on page nine.

A good report ranks every action by risk, so the first three things you read are the first three things to do. Each one says what was found, why it matters to the people in the building, and what puts it right.

Part one, in September, covered the four things every report should tell you. Part three, later this month, is the one most reports leave out: what was not inspected.

The view from the anchor point.Rope access gets us to the places a ladder can't reach and a lift won't fit: the narrow g...
12/10/2026

The view from the anchor point.

Rope access gets us to the places a ladder can't reach and a lift won't fit: the narrow gap between two blocks, the planted courtyard, the elevation above a canopy. Two ropes per operative, a working line and a back-up, and a rescue plan written before anyone goes over.

It isn't always the answer. Where the ground will take a tracked lift, we'll often use one. The method is chosen for the building, not for what's cheapest to hire.

Three things we look at before a crew goes over the edge.The ground. Will it take a tracked lift, or is this a job for r...
09/10/2026

Three things we look at before a crew goes over the edge.

The ground. Will it take a tracked lift, or is this a job for ropes from the roof?

The surface. Glass, render and cladding panels each want a different method, and the wrong one shows by spring.

The paperwork. Permits, the rescue plan, the method statement — done before the first rope goes down, not after.

None of it is glamorous. It's the difference between a job that looks good today and one that still looks good in a year.

"Anyone can do a fire risk assessment — the law lets the responsible person do it themselves."True. It's also the senten...
07/10/2026

"Anyone can do a fire risk assessment — the law lets the responsible person do it themselves."

True. It's also the sentence that gets buildings into trouble.

The Fire Safety Order asks for a suitable and sufficient assessment, and since the 2023 changes it says the person you appoint must be competent: enough training, experience and knowledge to do the job properly. If the assessment is ever challenged, you're the one who has to show they were.

Four things to ask before you appoint anyone:
— Their qualification, and who awarded it. Ask for the certificate, not the initials.
— Whether they sit on a professional register, and which one.
— A sample report. Redacted is fine. If you can't read it without a translator, that's your answer.
— Their professional indemnity insurance, and that it's in date.

Ask those four and most of the anxiety goes.

Every autumn the same thing happens on flat roofs.Leaves blow in, settle round the outlets and wait for the first heavy ...
05/10/2026

Every autumn the same thing happens on flat roofs.

Leaves blow in, settle round the outlets and wait for the first heavy rain. When the outlet can't take the water, the water finds another way down — usually through a top-floor ceiling.

Clearing an outlet, checking the downpipe runs free and photographing it before and after is a small job. The ceiling it saves is not.

If you look after a building with a flat roof, October is the month to have someone go up. When did anyone last look at yours?

September is when fire risk assessments get put off.It happens every autumn. Buildings fill up again, the year's budget ...
16/09/2026

September is when fire risk assessments get put off.

It happens every autumn. Buildings fill up again, the year's budget is already set, and a review that was due around now slides quietly into next year. Then a sale, a renewal or a solicitor's letter turns it into an emergency.

If you're the Responsible Person for a block of flats, a converted building or a commercial premises, there are three dates worth checking this month. When your last assessment was done. When it said it should be reviewed. Whether anything has changed since, like a new tenant, a refurbishment or a change of use.

If something has changed, the review comes forward.

None of that needs a phone call. Our pre-inspection form takes five minutes, tells you what your building would need, and puts it in front of one of our assessors.

https://www.seeforthservices.co.uk/fire-safety-pre-inspection

Why we don't pressure-wash render.It is a question we are often asked about external cleaning: why not just jet-wash it?...
14/09/2026

Why we don't pressure-wash render.

It is a question we are often asked about external cleaning: why not just jet-wash it? It looks faster, and it is — for about a season.

High pressure drives water into the render and behind it. Hairline cracks open, the coating lifts at the edges, and the growth comes back darker because the surface is now rougher than before. The building looks clean in the photographs and worse by spring.

A soft wash does the opposite: low pressure, the right cleaning solution given time to work, and the growth removed rather than blasted off the top. The finish is not instant — and it lasts.

Access is the other half of it. On tall elevations that means rope access or a tracked spider lift, chosen for what the ground and the façade will take, not for what is cheapest to hire.

Same principle as everything else we do: the method has to be right for the building, and the building has to look right long after we have gone.

What should a fire risk assessment report actually tell you?Most people responsible for a building have never read a goo...
11/09/2026

What should a fire risk assessment report actually tell you?

Most people responsible for a building have never read a good one — only the one they were given.

A good report does four things. It describes the building as it was found, not as the plans say it should be. It sets out the hazards and the people at risk in plain language, so a managing agent can act on it without a translator. It ranks every action by risk, not by the order the assessor walked round in — so the first three items are the ones that matter. And it records what was inspected and what was not, because an honest boundary is worth more than a confident one.

That last point is the one we hold to most firmly. A report that reads as complete but quietly skipped the roof void or the plant room is not reassurance. It is a liability with a cover sheet.

If you would like to know what yours would need to cover, our five-minute pre-inspection form is the quickest way to find out: https://www.seeforthservices.co.uk/fire-safety-pre-inspection

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