Fire Doors and Accessories

Do you have to be certified to fit fire dampers within ventilation systems if you follow the manufacturers installation guidance.

Hi all, OK so there is a protected stairwell in a modern school that has a small server room under the stairs. There is an air grill fitted which appears to be fire rated intumescent however, no dampers to prevent cold smoke transfer. Is this acceptable? Thanks

Do steel doors need smoke seals? There is a seal around the door set at my work place but a seal is missing on one side. Is this a smoke seal or acoustic seal.

Hi I am trying to find out the regulation for the number of fire door hinges that are needed. We have internal residential fire doors with 2 fire rated hinges on each, is that in compliance with regulations? Thanks Etive

Hi, just a quick question, I know that if a door has a digi lock & lever handle its is a fail as 2 locks are not allowed on fire doors, but is a new door needed as a void will be left in door or can a b m trada trained door fitter repair door.

Hi, I’m about to rent out my 3 story property to a married couple so not a HMO. I’ve measured the doors to all bedrooms/habitable areas and they are 44/45mm thick (FD30). Do they need self closing mechanism? I imagine it is recommend, but is it a legal requirement?

If the door has no manufacturer label (nominal door) can you still carry out repairs to door & if so how would you know what seals & locks to put on if you have no information about the door.

We have a client who has been on a Fire Door Course and was told that all installers must be certified under the new Fire Regs. Is this true? We have always known it that installers must be competent but there is no legal requirement to be officially certified. If this has changed, what is the best certification we should look to obtain as a company?

I'm building a cafe with a plant room adjacent to the kitchen for the distributor board, water heater, underfloor heating controls,. Does the door between the kitchen and plant room need to be a fire door?

Hi, does anybody know a suitable lock that is both BS12209 and able to provide a BS security locking system?

Hello all, I know this may sound like a strange question. In our commercial property the external entrance doors are using Rutland ts3204 door closers. The closers themselves are fine and work desirably most of the time. The issue is that during hot summer times they provide no control and the doors slam extremely hard. We’ve been counteracting this by adjusting them accordingly but it’s becoming a bit of a nuisance. They seem really reactive to heat changes. Is anyone aware of door closers that are less affected by temperature changes, as I’m sure other doors I’ve used in the past don’t encounter this problem. Any suggestions would be much a…

Hi all, Thanks for all the advice given in here, so helpful I was looking at some doors with twin fin intumescent strips fitted to the frame, but when the strips were fitted they have joined two pieces together as it looks like they did not buy the correct lenghts for the frame, i was under the the impression that they need to be fitted in one continuous lenght unless passing ironmongery, due to smoke leakage. should these be replaced with one continous strip from top to bottom? once again thanks Mr B

We live in a ground floor flat of a converted 2 storey semi detached. The hallway is really dark so we want to replace the current door, between the communal entrance and our flat, with a semi glazed door. It's only 610 wide. I have sourced a fire door, and have some glazing that I want installed into it. Is this possible... Still meeting fire regs? The glazing has a kite make on it. What do I need to consider? Thanks.

Hi all, I was looking at a number of fire doors in a builing that was built in the 80s and have origional doors, the riser doos have 4no rim budget locks openable by a square key one in each corner, no hinges or handles are fitted so the door will just fall open when rim locks ae unlocked, no intumescet strips or smoke seals are fitted to door or fame either, am I right t advise these doors are replaced? my thoughts were that the means of escape would be compromised by smoke escaping the holes in the door from the rim locks even if smoke seals are fitted. any advice welcome thanks

Hi Everyone, I have a couple of question regarding fire doors in fire walls in comercial buildings. 1) I was supplied a compartmentation strategy floor plan for a fire door audit and was told that it is ok to put a FD30 in a 60 min fire wall? is this correct? 2) does every door in a fire wall need to be a fire door? i.e toilet doors and office doors? as well as high risk rooms/areas? many thanks

We are currently refurbing a single story building which has 3 corridors approximately 35m in length running in parallel between the final exits. We are installing FD30S doors as approximately the midpoint of each corridor. The issue is that at the midpoint is another corridor that connects the three corridors but is not connected to a final exit (basically |-|-|) we can either put a door at the midpoint of each (2 doors) or at the end (3 doors). Does anyone have any suggestions or an alternative, currently the walls are not full height and so require fire stopping.

Hello All. Can someone confirm that a new cert is not required when just changing a euro cylinder for like for like (name and brand) replacement of an FD30 flat door.

I would like to know if you can apply a fire retardant weatherstrip on a fire door. The door currently slams shut and are quite noisy so I’m hoping to apply this as a cushion to reduce the noise but will this be breaking any regulations for a Fire Door?

Hi does anyone know of any suitable smoke seals that can be fitted to lift doors that won't affect the normal operation of the doors? Thanks

Hi everyone, before I get to my topic I'd just like to say a huge thankyou to the admin/mods/contributors of this forum, it's been an invaluable resource so far. So here's my query, me and my neighbours have just received a letter from the managing agents of our development (a mix of 2 and 3 storey blocks) saying that after a fire risk assessment we all have to upgrade (not replace) our front doors to comply with current regulations by retro-fitting intumescent seals and smoke strips and ensuring that hinges and closers comply. The doors are marked with a blue dot in a white circle and have 25mm doorstops for smoke control and are stated as being in good condit…

I own a ground floor flat and rent it out. It is in a block of 4, 2 up and 2 down. I have a back door into my garden and a front door into a communal hall/stair. My front door is next to one main entrance door, stairs in the middle and another main entrance door on the otherside of corridor going out (therefore 2 communal escape routes). Do I need a fire door on my front door as anyone in the flats could access the other escape door without coming near my door and vise versa. Also both upper flats have balconies.

I’ve come across these a couple of times now. Both times I haven’t found any grading or BS EN stamp. Can anybody confirm these are rated to FD30 doors? Thanks

Are there any manufacturers/suppliers of cold smoke brushes for bottoms of doors where the gap fluctuates from near flush to over 25mm across the width. The building is very old with sloping floors, and the doors cannot be cut to size. If not, are there any other solutions members can suggest? Thanks

Hi I’m carrying out an inspection on a fire door, the previous report states it’s not a fire door but I think it is and looking for guidance.... This is a door to an electrical intake room, it has a fire door keep shut sign (should be keep locked) its 45mm thick (fd30?) and the door stop is 45mm wide. there is a intumescent strip 10mm x 4mm on the hinge side, top and opening side Now there are 2 hinges, neither are marked so I would assume non fire rated and someone has fitted (poorly) a Yale lock on the door, the door hasn’t changed since the last report and I can’t work out why they said it’s not a FD30? thanks

Hi, I am looking for some advice please. I have a contractor who will be replacing 10 Fire Doors in a school. The question I have, the contractor wants to remove all 10 doors at the one time, which there will be no fire doors in that area over night time, which is a concern. I did bring it up, remove one fire door and replace a fire door and so on. They are adamant they have not got the staff and time to do it one off, one on. Does anyone have any other recommendations, and what needs to be in place? Thank you Fiona.