This paper explores the lived experience of fire safety remediation in multi-storey residential buildings in England. Drawing on interviews with 20 leaseholders, it shows how prolonged and intrusive building works disrupt the sense of home as a safe, private and controllable space, exposing significant psychological and social costs. The findings argue that remediation and retrofit must be understood not only as technical processes, but as interventions into people’s homes that should foreground residents’ experiences.