Fire risk assessments, EICRs, PAT testing, emergency lighting, legionella and health & safety assessments for shops, cafés, offices, workshops, gyms, salons, guest houses and HMOs across Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire. You see the price before you book, pay by card, and a vetted local specialist does the work. No quotes, no surveys, no sales call.
Almost nobody books a fire risk assessment because they woke up wanting one. It is the insurer's renewal form, the council licensing officer, the landlord's agent, the fire officer's visit or the franchise audit. Pick the one that just happened to you.
Renewal questionnaires increasingly ask for a current FRA, an EICR and evidence of extinguisher and alarm servicing. Missing any of them can void a claim.
Book a fire risk assessment, from £345 →Premises licences, HMO licences and selective licensing conditions across Greater Manchester and Liverpool routinely require a fire risk assessment and a current EICR.
Book an EICR, from £395 →A new shop, café or workshop needs an FRA before opening, and the landlord will usually want the electrical installation certified before you trade.
Price the full set →Greater Manchester and Merseyside fire services run business safety audits. If you've had a letter or a visit, the assessment is the first thing they'll ask to see.
Get it booked this week →Fire safety across the region sits under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, as amended by the Fire Safety Act 2021 and Section 156 of the Building Safety Act 2022. Since 1 October 2023 the Responsible Person for any non-domestic premises must record the fire risk assessment in full — the old "five or more employees" threshold no longer applies. Enforcement is by Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service across the ten Greater Manchester boroughs, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service for Liverpool, Wirral, Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens, Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service for Warrington, Chester, Crewe and the wider county, and Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service from Preston and Blackburn up to Lancaster.
All four services run business fire safety audits. A visit typically checks the fire risk assessment, the alarm and emergency lighting logbooks, extinguisher service labels and the escape routes. Our reports are written to be read by an inspecting officer, not a generic template.
Liverpool operates selective licensing across designated areas that take in around 80% of the city's private rented sector (check your address on the council's licensing page), and several Greater Manchester boroughs run selective licensing in designated areas. HMOs with five or more people from two or more households need a mandatory licence everywhere. Licence conditions commonly require a fire risk assessment, a satisfactory EICR at least every five years (the Electrical Safety Standards in the Private Rented Sector Regulations 2020), working fire detection, and — for larger HMOs — emergency lighting and serviced extinguishers.
Every HMO fire risk assessment is priced at £995 because sleeping accommodation changes the assessment materially: escape from bedrooms, detection in every room, compartmentation between lettings. That is the price at checkout, not a starting figure.
RiskSorted is a principal contractor: we hold the contract with the customer, set the price and stand behind the work. Local specialists carry it out. We are adding fire risk assessors, electricians with inspection and testing qualifications, and fire equipment engineers across Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire.
The premises are the same everywhere — shops, cafés, restaurants, offices, workshops, gyms, salons, guest houses, HMOs — but the triggers and the enforcing authority differ. This is what tends to bring people to us in each part of the region.
Northern Quarter and Ancoats bars, restaurants and independent retail; Deansgate and Spinningfields offices; Salford Quays and MediaCity studios and serviced offices. Premises licence renewals and landlords' agents asking for a current FRA and EICR drive most bookings. GMFRS enforces.
Didsbury, Chorlton and Altrincham high streets; Stockport town centre and its industrial estates; Trafford Park units and workshops. Frequent asks: emergency lighting testing before a lease renewal, EICRs on older shop conversions, PAT for small offices.
Family-run retail, takeaways, gyms, small manufacturing and warehousing. Insurers are the usual trigger — a renewal form that wants an FRA, an EICR and extinguisher service certificates together. All three can be booked in one order at fixed prices.
Bold Street and Baltic Triangle hospitality, Liverpool ONE retail, city-centre offices, and the large HMO market in Kensington, Wavertree and the student areas around Smithdown Road. Liverpool's selective licensing, which covers most of the city's rented homes, makes the EICR-plus-FRA pairing the most common order. Merseyside FRS enforces.
Seafront guest houses and B&Bs in Southport, town-centre retail, care and nursery premises. Anywhere people sleep is a £995 fire risk assessment with a bedroom count, and sleeping accommodation is exactly where the fire service looks hardest.
Warrington's distribution and business parks; Chester's hospitality and independent retail; Crewe, Macclesfield, Northwich and Nantwich workshops and offices. Larger warehouse floors move the FRA to the £695 or £995 band by footprint — we ask how big the floor is in tennis courts, not square metres. Cheshire FRS enforces.
Mill conversions, textile and food manufacturing units, town-centre retail and a substantial private rented sector. EICRs on older installations and legionella assessments for premises with stored hot water are the recurring requests. Lancashire FRS enforces.
Hotels, guest houses and holiday lets first, then the seasonal hospitality trade. Sleeping accommodation means the FRA is £995; we ask for a rough bedroom count and, above twenty, offer a planning call before the visit — the price does not change.
University-town HMOs, market-town retail and rural hospitality. We cover Lancaster, Kendal and Carlisle from the Lancashire panel; the fixed prices apply and there is no travel loading.
The things people in the North West actually ask before they book.
The same prices apply everywhere we work. There is no North West surcharge, no travel loading and no "prices on application" — a business in Bolton pays exactly what a business in London pays, and sees the number before booking.
| Fire risk assessment | £345 for a small premises (one floor, nobody sleeping there, under about a tennis court); £495 for two floors; £695 for three floors or a larger footprint; £995 for four or more floors, anywhere people sleep overnight, and every HMO. Fixed at checkout — no survey, no call-back. Report in your account within 14 days of the visit or 10% back. |
| Health & safety risk assessment | £495 for one floor, £695 for two to three, £995 for four or more |
| Legionella risk assessment | £395 small, £495 standard, £695 larger, £995 complex — priced from taps, heaters and tanks, "don't know" allowed — plus lab water samples at £55 each, counted from your answers and included in every assessment (a small café is usually two, so from £505) |
| EICR | £395 covers the first 20 circuits, then £17.99 each |
| Emergency lighting | £395 for one floor, £495 for two to three, £795 for four or more |
| Fire alarm servicing | £395 for one floor, £495 for two to three, £795 for four or more |
| PAT testing | £149 covers the first 100 appliances, then 99p each. Year-two visual inspection £99. |
| Fire extinguishers | £99 covers the first 5, then £15 each |
Jobs starting outside Monday to Friday, 7am to 2pm carry a 50% uplift. It is the start time that counts, not the finish — a job starting at 1pm and running to 6pm is charged at the standard rate. All prices exclude VAT, which is added at 20% at checkout — you see the VAT-inclusive total before you pay.
We only ask questions you can answer. What kind of place it is, how many floors, roughly how many appliances, and anything that won't work for timing. If a North West business owner would not know the answer without ringing someone, we don't ask it.
Reviewed by qualified compliance practitioners. Last updated 07 September 2026. Regulatory references checked against current Government guidance and the enforcing authorities for the region (Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and Lancashire fire and rescue services). Standards referenced at their current editions: BS 5266-1:2025, BS 5839-1:2025, BS 7671:2018+A4:2026, BS 8674:2025, PAS 79-1:2020, ACoP L8 and HSG274. Fire risk assessment pricing reflects the three-question fixed-price model introduced September 2026.
This guide provides general information about compliance requirements in the North West for non-domestic premises and the private rental sector. It is not legal or professional advice. For your specific premises, the fire risk assessment, the health and safety risk assessment and the relevant enforcing authority's guidance take precedence. Council licensing schemes change — check your council's current designation before relying on anything here.