What happens when a fire door fails?
Get a priceUsually, somebody repairs it. A fail on the report does not mean the door goes in a skip.
Most failures are small. The closer has lost its adjustment. A hinge screw is missing. The gap down the closing side is 5mm instead of 4. Those are an hour's work with the right parts.
Faults that mean a new door
A door with a big hole cut through the middle, for a letterbox or a spyhole that was never made for fire. A door that has been planed down until the lipping is gone. A hollow door that was never a fire door, which no repair will change.
Then you need a certified doorset. That means the door and its frame together, supplied and fitted as one tested unit. A plain flush one will usually do the job. Panelled doors are thinner where the panels sit and will not give you the same rating, so we would not put one in.
What to do with the report
Start with the doors marked urgent. Those are the ones that will not shut or have no seal.
Then get a price for the rest. You can take the report to your own carpenter or to us. Our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors do repairs and fit doors, and the price for repairs and new doors is fixed once we have seen the report.
Keep the report. If a fire officer or an insurer asks about the doors, you can show what was found and what was done.
Send the postcode and a rough number. A price comes back the same day.
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