Fire door inspections for schools
Hundreds of doors, a lot of small hands, and a caretaker with the keys.
Get a priceA school has more doors than most buildings its size, and every one of them gets used a few hundred times a day.
That wears the same parts out, over and over. Closers lose their adjustment. Hinge screws work loose. The edge of a door that has been kicked open by a trolley loses its paint and then a bit of its timber.
When we come
A holiday. The corridors are empty, the caretaker can open every room, and nobody needs a door back by nine.
Half term can work for a small school. A big one needs a week in the summer.
In term time we can do the corridors after the last bell. Tell us when the building empties.
What gets missed in schools
Vision panels. A classroom door with a glazed panel needs the glass and the beading to be right, and a panel that has been replaced with ordinary glass is a hole in the door.
Doors held open. A wedge, a bin, a coat over the handle. A door that has to stay open should be on a hold-open device wired to the alarm, so it shuts when the bell goes.
Plant rooms and stores. Nobody looks in there, and the doors are often wedged or have no closer at all.
Corridor cross doors. The big double doors across a long corridor have a closing sequence, and the leaf that closes second needs to meet the first properly.
What you get
A written list of every door by number, with photos. Faults ranked by how soon they need sorting, so the caretaker has a job list and the head has something to show governors.
We worked on two schools and an almshouse in Luton: 147 doors, 140 repaired. We know what a school's door list looks like.
Repairs can be priced from the same report. Our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors do the work.
Responsibility
The employer or the governing body, or whoever the school is run by, is normally the responsible person under the Fire Safety Order. Your fire risk assessment should say how often the doors are checked. We inspect them in detail. The two do not replace each other.
Questions we get asked
Can you work around lessons?
Yes, for corridors and common areas. We would rather do classrooms when they are empty.
Do you inspect nurseries?
Yes. The doors are the same sort of doors.
Send the postcode and a rough number. A price comes back the same day.
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