Surveys
Fire Door Compliance Surveys
We appreciate that Fire Door Compliance as a whole may be a daunting obligation to many. At Approved Door Consultancy, we are dedicated to ensuring this important aspect of fire safety becomes less daunting for you. Our comprehensive Fire Door Compliance Survey in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire or throughout the UK, will thoroughly cover all compliancy aspects of each Fire Door, impartially assessing them against set industry standards.
Following the thorough survey, we issue a detailed and transparent compliance report, with images, showing which of your doors have passed, which have failed, along with the reason(s) why.
Our wider services can now be utilised to assist you in taking the next steps needed to rectify any failed Fire Doors. Any necessary works could be by way of suitable repairs, or by way of complete replacement doorsets, ensuring your Fire Doors are brought back up to a fully compliant standard once again.
With regular updates in law, it is important that the Responsible Person for Fire Safety within buildings can adequately demonstrate their commitment to compliance. Approved Door Consultancy can provide this through our comprehensive surveys along with aiding you to implement an adequate action plan where necessary.
We will not carry out a Survey and then walk away leaving you with a new headache to resolve. You can engage with us as much or as little as you need, to allow us the opportunity to prepare a suitable action plan for you and assist in organising and/or managing any remedial or replacement works, to ensure only the absolute essential works are carried out by approved suppliers.
All of our Fire Door Compliance Surveys come with a free
Electronic Door Management System
to help make the management of all your fire doors as stress free as possible
(terms and conditions apply)
What is a Fire Door and why are they needed?
Fire Doors are an integral part of the fire safety of a building. Their main purpose is to slow the spread of a 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.
Why do we need to inspect Fire Doors?
As well as being Fire Doors, they are also more commonly seen and treated as general day to day doors within a building between one room and another. As such, we all use these Fire Doors on a daily basis, causing daily wear and tear to take effect. It is very easy to get into habits whereby we prop Fire Doors opens with a wedge or a fire extinguisher.
It is also very easy to ask maintenance to pop some new screws in that hinge. There are many day-to-day issues that should not happen, and these issues are picked up generally only when a fresh pair of eyes are inspecting this door that you use yourself on a daily basis. Every aspect of performance will be inspected by a professional Fire Door Compliance Surveyor ensuring your Fire Door will ultimately perform when and if needed.
Should any elements of the door fail inspection, we can advise on the most appropriate next step to be taken to ensure your Fire Door returns back to being fully compliant.
Will having Fire Doors inspected be disruptive?
As with many things, there are a couple of levels that can be explored when it comes to Fire Door Compliance Survey’s. If you wanted to ensure your building was as compliant as possible, you may choose to engage us to carry out an Architrave Survey as well as the Fire Door Compliance Survey.
An Architrave Survey will generally see us removing the existing architrave to 10% of the locations you have. This is to allow us to gain an understanding as to the quality of installation and fire stopping at the time of installation. Without correct fire stopping for example, your Fire Door will simply not last the expected 30 or 60 minutes. We will be as careful as possible at all times and limit mess and disruption to the best of our abilities, we may choose locations better suited for this added in-depth inspection to help minimise disruption.
The architrave we remove, we will re-install once the inspection has been carried out, sometimes this may leave a small requirement of re-painting, but this really is as disruptive as this gets. The actual Fire Door Compliance Survey is not disruptive at all, we just need to be able to gain access to both sides of each and every Fire Door you have.
What happens if any Fire Doors fail a Fire Door Compliance Survey?
Due to the range of services we offer, once we have carried out a Fire Door Compliance Survey, you can engage with us as much or as little as you prefer. This means we don’t just come and do your survey and walk away leaving you with worry about what to do next.
The next steps will vary from client to client and will be discussed and agreed with the Responsible Person. Steps may involve repairs being carried out, replacement doorsets being procured and installed, or just simply regular checks going forwards.
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Fire Door Architrave Surveys
Our Fire Door Architrave Survey provides a more in-depth look into your current Fire Doors and how they were installed and fire stopped at the time. Generally, this service will see us removing the architrave to approximately 10% of the Fire Door stock per building, to build an overall picture as to whether the doorsets are adequately fire stopped or not.
The best Fire Door in the world will not perform unless it is: manufactured correctly, installed correctly, fire stopped correctly and maintained correctly, going forwards.
Fire Door Action Plan
Following your Fire Door Compliance Survey, we offer a service to provide a recommended Action Plan to undertake any remedial works required.
This action plan will cover all works required per building and these will be listed showing recommended priority order to help highlight the severity of each location and its issues.
If you would like further assistance following your Fire Door Compliance Survey and do not want to just be left to fend for yourself, ensure you ask us to provide a quote for our Action Plan service.
Replacement Door Manufacture Surveys
Should you require replacement doors, either following a Fire Door Compliance Survey in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire or across the UK, as a result of wear and tear or damage, or as part of a planned project, Approved Door Consultancy can assist.
Carrying out a pre-manufacture Survey, obtaining all necessary structural opening dimensions, along with discussing with you the functionality needs of all new doorsets, will ensure all the necessary information is presented to allow quick, hassle-free procurement for you.
Please also remember, you may choose to utilise Approved Door Consultancy in helping you to source a certified, vetted, approved manufacturer along with installer.
We can work with you to implement a suitable door specification for any future doorsets. This ensures your new door stock is all to an agreed standard and certified correctly, ensuring compliance moving forwards.
Post Installation Surveys
Having had new doors delivered or installed, do you worry about the quality of the product or service you have received?
Our numerous years of experience has taught us techniques to identify issues, allowing us to mitigate regular industry pitfalls, often arising from manufacturers or installation companies offering an alternative that ultimately is not spec compliant. This often happens during competitive tendering by contractors in a bid to secure works which may result in steps away from your agreed specification along with the quality you are expecting.
Approved Door Consultancy, with our transparent and impartial approach, can assist you by carrying out
delivery inspections and post installation surveys, at agreed frequencies to suit, assessing the detail and quality.
Being pro-active, helps to ensure your standards at constantly met, in both product and service delivery. Our independent involvement can help to iron out small issues before they have the opportunity to develop into larger problems.
Fire Door Compliance in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and across the UK
Ensure optimal fire safety for your property in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire with our specialised Fire Door Compliance services. We are committed to meeting and exceeding industry regulations as we conduct thorough assessments to guarantee that your fire doors adhere to the highest standards. Whether you’re a business owner or property manager, our comprehensive compliance solutions will provide peace of mind. Trust us to enhance the safety of your location in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, ensuring full compliance with fire door regulations for a secure and protected environment.
Bespoke Services
If you require assistance with anything not listed above, please do not hesitate to contact us. We are a company that, where needed, can work to bespoke client needs.
Contact Us
Account enquiries: accounts@approved-door-consultancy.co.uk
General enquiries: info@approved-door-consultancy.co.uk
Mike: 07974 662618
Lee: 07768 384816
Account enquiries:
accounts@approved-door-consultancy.co.uk
General enquiries:
info@approved-door-consultancy.co.uk
Mike:
07974 662618
Lee:
07768 384816