Fire door inspections for offices and units
Stair doors, plant rooms and the door to the yard.
Get a priceIn an office the fire doors are rarely the problem people think they are.
Nobody has broken in. Nobody has been careless with matches. It is nearly always a closer that someone loosened and a door that now sits open all day.
What we find
Wedges, mostly. A rubber one under the stair door, a fire extinguisher propping the corridor, a chair against a heavy door in a hot week.
Then holes. A fitter running data cable or access control drills through the door or its frame, and although the hole is small it is a gap in the very part meant to hold back fire.
Some doors carry a lock on the escape side that needs a key, and somebody leaving in a hurry has no time to hunt for one. Doors with a magnetic lock must let go when the alarm sounds, so on any that have one we set off the release and watch what happens.
After a refit the old door can end up in a wall it was never meant for. We can usually tell from the label, or the lack of one.
Who has the duty
Under the Fire Safety Order it sits with the employer, or with whoever controls the premises. If you rent a floor in a managed building, the landlord usually has the stairs and lobby and you have the doors on your own floor, and your fire risk assessment should divide it up.
London Fire Brigade enforces the Order in Bromley.
Getting it done
Before you open or after you close suits us. A door takes a few minutes. A meeting room that is booked gets skipped and we come back to it.
A unit with a loading door, a yard door and a few internal fire doors is a short visit.
The report
A list of every door, a photo, a pass or fail and what is wrong. A short list at the top of the doors that need action first.
You can give it to your landlord, your insurer or your fire risk assessor.
Repairs can be priced from the same report. Our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors do them. Taking the report to your own carpenter is fine too.
Questions we get asked
Do we need this if we have a fire risk assessment?
Yes, if you want each door looked at properly. The assessment covers the whole building. They are separate jobs.
How often?
Your assessment should set it. A refit or a change of use is a good reason to book sooner.
Send the postcode and a rough number. A price comes back the same day.
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