Fire Door Inspections

Fire doors are an essential component of any building’s passive fire protection system, they play a significant role in reducing risk and damage in case of a fire. F.A.S UK offers fire door inspections that thoroughly check your doors to ensure they are fit for purpose and compliant with fire safety standards. Trust our team to provide reliable evaluation and recommendations for optimal fire protection.

Correct maintenance and regular inspections in any commercial building is necessary in reducing the risk of loss to life and property. An inspection will look at all elements of the doorset which, if not maintained, can significantly reduce the effectiveness of the system and its ability to stop the spread of fire.

A fire door inspection survey will check that your building’s fire doors are compliant with the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 which makes it a legal requirement to ensure that fire resisting doors are correctly installed and adequately maintained to be fit for purpose. It states that the responsible person for non-domestic buildings must ensure fire doors and frames are correctly installed so they can effectively prevent the spread of fire. According to the BWF-CERTFIRE Best Practice Guide, as a building owner or responsible person you should check your fire doors once every 6 months.

This includes an inspection of the vision panels, glazing, cold smoke seals, intumescent seals, the fire resisting qualities of the doorset including its thickness and gaps between the leaf and door frame, the condition, fitting, and operation of the hinges and hardware, and checking for relevant markings, for example from the British Woodworking Federation, to identify the fire rating of the doorset.

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 & Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 requires the Responsible Person of non-domestic buildings to maintain the Fire Doors

Flat entrance fire doors should be inspected 12 monthly

Best practice for buildings above 11 meters to have inspection every 3 months

These inspections involves ensuring correct and efficient self closers, correct fire rated hinges, and defects in the door should be rectified as soon as reasonably practicable.

Our engineers are fulling qualified to BS 476 British British Standards. (Best Practice Guide to Timber Fire Doors) Click here for the link to British Standards Guild.

Why do you need Fire Doors?

Protect occupants
Block the spread of flames and smoke
Minimize overall property damage
Maintain the flow of traffic for building occupants and emergency response teams
Contain damage and minimize building downtime and need for repairs
Contain the fire in the room in which it started
Keep escape routes, such as corridors, clear from fire, giving occupants of the building longer to escape and better access for the fire service
Protect the remainder of the building, its contents and other buildings nearby from further damage
Minimise the spread of fire and smoke in a building
Provide life safety by allowing people to exit quickly when necessary

Do you need new Fire doors installed?

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Our partners at Clydeview are certified in the Q-Mark Fire Door Installation scheme. This allows us to provide reassurance to all involved that their fire doors have been installed/maintained correctly, safely and will perform as intended.

At F.A.S UK we are committed to complying with the current regulations for the correct installation of fire doors and have invested in becoming certified through BM Trada’s Q-Mark Fire Door Installation Scheme.

BM Trada Certified

There is a legal requirement for manufacturers to demonstrate the ability of their products to withstand the passing and spread of fire. However, if not installed correctly, fire doors can be seriously compromised. The BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Door Installation scheme offers reassurance to clients and contractors that the product they have chosen has been installed safely, correctly and that it should perform as specified.