Fire Door Compliance Surveys & Inspections by Certified Fire Door Inspectors
Ensure your building meets all current fire door inspection and compliance regulations.
Our certified fire door inspectors have vast Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours, allowing them to provide detailed fire door surveys, fire door action plans, and expert recommendations to help you stay safe and compliant.
What is a Fire Door Compliance Survey/Inspection?
Our comprehensive Fire Door Compliance Survey provides a full review of your fire doors to ensure they meet all compliancy aspects, based on their age and relative legislation requirements.
A large number of fire door aspects are inspected during our survey, including things such as; ironmongery, perimeter gaps, use of intumescent, smoke control, and so much more.
When carrying out your fire door survey, we ensure all fire door inspection requirements are covered to ensure true safety and compliance.
We understand that Fire Door Compliance can be a daunting obligation to many, with few knowing in-depth fire door testing and fire door safety checks relating to fire doors that have been inspected.
Ensure compliance and safety with professional fire door surveys and inspections. Approved Door Consultancy provides certified fire door inspectors and actionable compliance reports.
What is included in a Fire Door Compliance Survey/ Inspection?
The extensive Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours of our Fire Door Inspectors ensure we can cover every point of a fire doors life journey, understanding key elements during manufacture, installation and ongoing maintenance & repairs.
Your fire rated door inspection, carried out by one of our certified fire door inspectors, will ensure checking fire doors is completed to suit the door and its age. There is so much to understand when it comes to fire door checks, fire door inspections and fire door maintenance, however, we can confidently ensure nothing is missing when we send you our clear reports.
We thoroughly check all elements, including but not limited to:
- Certified identification
- Damage to door
- Damage to frame
- Twist
- Door and frame installation quality
- Hinges
- Door closer
- Hold open devices
- Latching capabilities
- Locking capabilities
- Suitability of all hardware
- Ironmongery installation quality
- Perimeter gaps (we provide detailed measurements and their locations)
- Meeting style gaps,
- Threshold gaps
- Intumescent protection to hardware
- Perimeter intumescent
- Air transfer grilles
- Glazing
- Substrate fire stopping
- Fire door signage
- Suitability of letterbox/plate
- General door operation,
On your detailed report per door location, you will see images that we capture during the fire door survey of various elements above, along with full doorset images from both sides. The exact items inspected will depend on the type of the door you have and whether you have opted for a non-intrusive or intrusive survey.
Non-Intrusive & Intrusive Fire Door Surveys/Inspections
When it comes to your fire door safety, there are two types of Fire Door Compliance Surveys available; non-intrusive and intrusive.
A Non-Intrusive Fire Door Compliance Survey
A non-intrusive compliance survey will include, but not limited to; inspecting the door to ascertain intended fire rating, visual damage to any part of the doorset, hinges, locking and latching mechanisms, glazing, intumescent seals, door closer, signage, perimeter gaps, hold open devices.
An Intrusive Fire Door Compliance Survey
An intrusive compliance survey will include everything covered within a non-intrusive survey, plus; the removal of architraves to allow the substrate fire stopping to be inspected for quality and to ensure a suitable material has been used.
Why Choose Approved Door Consultancy?
Our Certified Fire Door Inspectors are CertFDI qualified and hold many years of first-hand experience within the fire door industry, having owned and operated a previous company that specialised in the manufacture, installation and repairs of fire doorsets and mental health doorsets.
We pride ourselves as a trusted fire door inspection company, aiming to ease your fire door compliance concerns with as much guidance as you need from us. Being able to offer you the most suitable type of survey for your building, ensures we can assist every client, no matter of their building use. Our fire door inspection services are there to be used by everyone.
The extent of our fire door services available, means we can pick up your fire door compliance and ensure you have everything in place that you need, ensuring the ongoing fire door maintenance of your fire doors, does not let you down.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. Who can carry out fire door inspections?
A. It is imperative that you engage with a fire door inspector with the correct Skills, Knowledge, Experience and Behaviours to ensure they can thoroughly and correctly survey all aspects of your fire doors, reporting clearly on the true facts, avoiding any up-selling or over-prescribing of replacement fire doors.
Q. How much does a fire door survey cost?
A. We price our fire door compliance surveys bespoke to your building, location and building use. This way, we ensure you receive a correct price from the offset. Like our clients, we do not like to have to send additional charge notifications because we didn’t ask you the correct information from the offset. There are other companies who price surveys cheaply as they inspect minimal aspects of your fire doors and have only ever completed a 1-day training course. Other companies work to the theory they can gain repair and replacement works from you following their surveys, so this may result in a cheaper initial survey quote.
Q. How often should fire doors be inspected?
A. This is not a straightforward question to answer, although it is a common question. The regularity of your fire door inspections will be dependant upon your building size, usage, occupants, etc. As a general rule, every fire door inspection should take place every 6 to 12 months as a minimum, with other fire doors that are in high traffic areas or within a taller building, for example, being inspected every 1 to 3 months. Speak to us about your building and we will be able to best advise on how often to inspect your fire doors.
Q. What actually is a fire door and why are they needed?
A. Fire doors are an integral part of the fire safety of a building. Their main purpose is to slow the spread of fire and smoke from one area/room to another, known as fire compartments. A well manufactured, installed and maintained fire door will hold back fire for, generally, 30 or 60 minutes, allowing time for people to escape the building safely, containing the fire, to allow the fire brigade an improved chance of tackling the fire prior to further damage being caused.
For information about our full range of door consultancy and survey services, please navigate to our services pages.
Contact us to arrange your Fire Door Inspection
Account enquiries: accounts@approved-door-consultancy.co.uk
General enquiries: info@approved-door-consultancy.co.uk
Mike: 07974 662618
Lee: 07768 384816
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