Effective fire-resisting doors are vital to ensure occupants are able to evacuate to a safe place. Correctly specified and installed doors will hold back fire and smoke, preventing escape routes becoming unusable as well as preventing the spread of fire.
Fire Doors
Our Certified Fire Door Services:
– Fire Door Installation
– Fire Door Maintenance
Q-MARK CERTIFICATION SCHEMES
BM TRADA is a leading provider of third-part certification for fire doors which is why we have invested in becoming a Certificated Company to their Q-Mark schemes.
The BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Door Installation and Maintenance schemes have been designed to provide reassurance that fire doorsets are being installed and maintained correctly, in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions or appropriate guidelines.
Fire Door Guidance
Most internal doors are constructed of timber. These will give some limited protection against fire spread, but only a purpose-built fire-resisting door that has been tested to an approved standard will provide the necessary protection of a designated fire door. Metal fire-resisting doors are also available and specific guidance for these doors can be provided on request. All fire resisting doors are rated by their performance when tested to an appropriate standard.
The level of protection provided by the door is measured, primarily by determining the time taken for a fire to breach the integrity of the door assembly, together with its resistance to the passage of hot gases and flame.
Good practice is to inspect timber fire-resisting door sets on a quarterly or six monthly or annual basis (subject to the premises FRA recommendations) as part of a programme of planned preventive maintenance for a premises. These inspections are aimed at identifying defects such as:
- – Missing or ineffective self-closing devices
- – Damaged doors/frames and seals etc if fitted
- – Removal of locks without suitable repairs to the integrity of the doors
- – Poorly fitting doors caused by distortion or shrinkage, or as a result of wear and tear
- – Newly fitted, but inappropriate, door furniture
- – Doors which have been replaced using non-fire-resisting types
- – Missing mandatory fire door signage (does not apply to flat entrance doors)
Please see our Inspection & maintenance guide to fire doors presentation for further information.
British Standards
To comply with British Standards, for non-residential buildings, fire door inspection and maintenance checks should be carried out six monthly by a ‘Competent Person”.
Minor maintenance issues can then be dealt with during these regular checks and future costly repair, or replacement door works can be avoided.
FIRE SAFETY REGULATIONS
The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 make it a legal requirement for
responsible persons for all multi-occupied residential buildings in England with storeys over 11 metres in height to:
- undertake quarterly checks of all fire door (including self-closing devices) in the common parts
- undertake – on a best endeavour basis – annual checks of all flat entrance doors (including self-closing devices) that lead onto a building’s common parts.
For full details, refer to Fact sheet: Fire doors (regulation 10) at the HM Gov Website.
Case Studies
Fire Door Installation
Fire Door InstallationCustomer requirement RES were asked by a prominent local solicitors to install a replacement fire rated flat front door at a prestigious apartment complex on behalf of a client. The specification for the door was provided by the managing agents for the premises. The door needed to be 30 minute fire rated, be [...]
Fire door and fire stopping inspections
Fire door and fire stopping inspections.British Standards To comply with British Standards, fire door inspection and maintenance checks should be carried out six monthly by a ‘Competent Person’. Minor maintenance issues can then be dealt with during these regular checks and future costly repair, or replacement door works can be avoided. When carrying out fire [...]
Fire door installations for apartment blocks
Fire door installations for apartment blocksInitial inspection When carrying out an initial inspection, servicing and maintenance visit covering all fire safety systems and measures for 24 apartment blocks in London, we made the client aware of an issue with a corridor in one of the blocks. All six floors above had a cross corridor fire [...]
Fire door maintenance and inspections for school
Fire Door Maintenance and Inspections for Local SchoolCustomer Requirement The head of estates at Leighton Park School asked RES to provide training in the form of a Powerpoint Presentation and an accompanying Fire Door Maintenance checklist that could be presented to caretakers and maintenance staff so that regular fire door inspections and minor maintenance issues [...]
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AREAS WE COVER
Our fire door services cover the South of England including the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire including London, Brighton, Portsmouth, Southampton, Winchester, Bristol, and the surrounding towns of Aldershot, Basingstoke, Beaconsfield, Bracknell, Cirencester, Egham, Farnham, Guildford, Henley on Thames, High Wycombe, Maidenhead, Marlow, Newbury, Oxford, Poole, Reading, Slough, St Albans, Staines, Swindon, Watford, Windsor, Woking, Wokingham and Worthing.
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