Why this product exists

In December 2020, two-year-old Awaab Ishak died in his Rochdale social housing flat from prolonged exposure to black mould. His father had reported the problem three years earlier and been told to paint over it. No substantive action was ever taken. The coroner's verdict triggered Awaab's Law — now in force — which requires social landlords to investigate damp and mould within 10 working days of notification.

In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire started in a fourth-floor flat at Grenfell Tower and spread within minutes to the building's exterior via combustible ACM cladding. Seventy-two people died. The public inquiry's final report documented a decade of ignored warnings — fire doors failing, defect notices unresolved, a fire safety strategy never approved. The Building Safety Act 2022 is the legislative response.

On 3 July 2009, a fire started in a ninth-floor flat at Lakanal House and spread through fundamentally failed fire compartmentation. Six people died, including three children. The inquest found fire doors without smoke seals, 13 layers of paint on corridor walls, and compartmentation breached by contractors — all observable in the communal areas, none of it recorded. Southwark Council was fined £570,000.

In February 2025, residents of Sundowner Court in Ocean Village, Southampton, received a letter giving them hours to leave their homes. A structural survey had found the entire steel frame had no fire protection. The building had been occupied for 21 years. For all of that time, there was no continuous, dated, independent record of what the building's communal areas looked like.