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Originally Posted by Flyboy

As a landlord, in most cases it is cost prohibitive to install systems such as sprinklers and in some case impossible,

[By Bold] Rubbish see Eclipse Fire Protection.

no matter much how money we have.

Don't you meen "no matter how much money we have" ?
Is still a lode of Rubbish.

It is better to have fire prevention, rather than suppression.

No it is better to have them both, tipicull landlord with that kind of comment.

Well lit and clear escape routes is also very important.

No it is a legal requirement already, and I bet you know already that it is a legal requirement ?

Fire escapes are already a mandatory requirement for residential buildings higher than two storeys.

No, but if the building has been converted in to flats or a HMO then yes it does need a Fire escape!

HMOs occupied by more than three unrelated people already require alarms and extinguishers etc.

You require a Fire Alarm System plus Fire Extinguishers and Emergency Lighting it is a legal requirement for the above!

Although I am no longer in the HMO sector, all my properties have extinguishers, smoke alarms and fire blankets installed.

I would hope so, and I hope your smoke alarms are not the DIY battery tipe? If thay are you are breaking the law, you must have a Full Fire Alarm System with Emergency Lighting as well as Fire Extinguishers in a House of Multiple Occupation (HMO)!

They also have fire escape rope ladders in at least one up stairs fire egress window, in conjunction with window hammers.

[My Bold] You scrooge, that is just doing the bare minimal required by law, tipicull landlord.

These items are checked on a regular basis and I have clauses in rental agreements, which include that the tenants are in breach of their tenancy, if they allow theses items to be misused or fall into disrepair, e.g. if they do not tell me that the fire extinguisher has developed a fault (leak etc.),

[My Bold] Will not hold up in court, you and you a lone are responsable for the Emergency equipment!

or that they don't bother to replace the batteries in the smoke alarms, they run the risk of losing their tenancy (rather a homeless tenant than a dead tenant).

[My Bold] Oh so you are breaking the law see above!

The cost of these items is are not expensive (neither are they cheap either), but they are reflected in the rent. I have calculated that over about five years, on average, approximately eight pounds a month goes toward the installation and maintenance of this equipment.

So you are trying to say that you are refilling the Fire Extinguishers or replacing the batteries in the Fire Alarm System each month that is just Rubbish.

Most landlords will do everything that is necessary and more to protect their assets (that includes the tenants as well as the properties) and that includes preventing fire from burning them down.

[My Bold] Don't you mean the bare minimum

The insurance may replace the buildings, but not necessarily the rent.

Rubbish, you must have the rongh insurance then.

I have never spent more than five hundred pounds in carpeting a three bedroom house and that would be a big house with very good carpets.

So you hav not bought Fire Resistant carpeting then? so you are breaking the law ones more! All carpeting and window coverings must be Fire Resistant in a HMO! Plus all furnishings must be Fire Resistant in a HMO as well

To install a modern day sprinkler system in a block of six flats, would cost between about fifty and one hundred thousand pounds.

What a load of Rubbish.