Fire Doors and Accessories

Hi, I am looking for definitive guidance in relation to fire door signage on double doors. I have various sets of double doors that are fire doors and I wanted to know whether I needed to fit signage on both sides of the doors, ie. 4 signs in total for a double-door set? Or would two suffice? Thanks alot. Charlie

If being asked to replace a door closer on a fire door. Is it my responsibly to check the rest of the door. ( eg to take the architrave off and make sure the frame has been seal with intumescent sealant)

Hi, I am trying to find guidance on how often I need to check flat entrance doors for social housing. All I can find is BS9999 which states that Fire Doors should be checked every 6 months. Does this just mean readily accessible communal doors, or also Flat Entrance doors? I am trying to find a sensible way of complying with the guidance, I doubt we would be able to check all of our flat doors twice a year. Any advice would be appreciated, especially from other social landlords. thanks, Mike

Hi yep can I drill a hole in a flat front door thats a fire door self closing, so I can hardwire my ipdoorbell as I'm disabled? The housing say the hole makes it a fire risk what can I do to prevent losing my ipdoorbell in it's present state? I would very much appreciate some feedback, thanks

Hi, My management company is asking me for a certification that my front door is a 30 or 60 min fire door. The only certificate I have is a Fensa ceritificate. Does it also certify that I have the required doors installed? Thanks for the info in advance

Hi everyone. Newbie to the forum so apologies if this question has been covered before. I have a new-build property with an attached garage but there is no direct door through into the house - as you will see from the attached plan the rear garage door opens to an external space as does the separate rear door of the house. The garage has a plant / boiler room in it to house a wall mounted boiler / storage cylinder etc. This door opens out into the garage space. I'm trying to work out what kind of door I need on the boiler room - it’s not on a main fire escape from the house and the garage has its main front large door and a separate rear door opening to an e…

We are putting a mega flo boiler in our downstairs toilet room. The boiler will be a (large) cupboard (with sliding doors) and there is also a washing machine and tumble dryer in this space. There will then be a door into the corridor from the toilet/boiler room space. My question is, does the door into the corridor need to be a fire safety door in this domestic semi detached house? Thanks

Morning Could someone please confirm if existing store room doors require just signage, or should they be compliant with regard gaps, strips, seals and closers as per the main fire doors. Thank you

I recently arrange a visit from FSO to look at my flat entrance door as I wanted to know if it was a fire door? It was built 1960 on 2 rising butt hinges with draft excluder all around frame. Opens onto communal hallway which leads to main exit door. Due to his visit i’m Getting a new FDS30 door. He looked round the block 3 floor 6 flats in total. The FSO contacted the Director and told him doors to other flats had to be changed under the 2005 act. The director is unhappy with this and is questioning the FSO as he says the doors are fine and only need to be changed if individual flat owners want to. I wonder if you could tell me who is correct. I personally…

Hello, I’m a surveyor, I’ve been recently tasked with surveying a lot of doors in and around London and keep coming up against the same problem which is the bottom of the doors have a gap greater than 8mm, as this is not ideal my clients have been ordered to reduce the gap, before becoming a surveyor I was a carpenter with 22 years experience and have always cut and lipped (with hardwood) my own fire doors whether it be to reduce or in some cases extend the door, I am now being told that this is no longer the case, so my question is can we still cut and lip fire doors ? Thanks

Hello, Last year I purchased a second floor apartment which was purpose built in 2003. The main door from the communal area into the apartment is a fire door with multipoint locking system. The springs in the door mechanism are no longer working and so I was looking to replace either the gearbox within it, or the old unsprung door handles with new sprung ones. As this is a fire door, am I right in thinking that all the fittings also have to be fire rated as I am unable to find any that are. Thanks

Hi, I work in a supported housing unit for the elderly which have self closing fire doors in the main corridors. The unit is only staffed during the hours of 8am until 10pm and these doors are kept open during these hours. I have been advised to now not close the fire doors at the end of my shift and to keep the fire doors open all night when the unit is unstaffed. I would have thought it was a legal requirement to close these doors during the night and have concerns that the correct procedure is not being followed. Can you advise?

Hi I'm about to replace a standard door closer with a Geofire Agrippa acoustically operated one. The template for drilling the holes for the closer arm partially overlaps where the existing closer was mounted and this was bodged slightly so I'm going to have to drill out the old screw. Horizontal positioning presumably whilst important is not as critical as vertical, so would it matter if I moved the closer arm (and therefore main unit) a couple of inches either way? Thanks David

I am secretary of the residents’ association for a block of 57 retirement flats. Each flat has a 30min fire door onto the access corridor. One of the results of a recent fire and safety inspection was the instruction that the simple magnetic door catches, that have been fitted, by residents, on the entrance doors to some of the flats, must be removed. His reason for this instruction was as they could prevent the doors fulfilling their purpose as fire doors. This instruction was not well received by our residents, who enjoy the privacy of their own homes and, as such, do not leave their doors wide open at all times. The magnetic catches allow residents to hold…

I'll be fitting a fire door along with appropriate FD30 hardware (hinges, latch, and handle) to a boiler cupboard in a residential property. The door is being supplied with pre-fitted intumescent air transfer grilles and seals. The boiler cupboard is located in the ground floor hallway, so opens out into an escape route. My question is this - is a door closer required? Or would it be suitable to fix a 'Fire Door Keep Closed' sign instead? I'm aware that fire doors generally require some form of automatic closer, but I am unsure whether this applies to fire doors that open into a utility cupboard such as this. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated. …

I need to upgrade some of the internal doors of my flat to FD30 doors. However, it looks like it will be difficult to remove the original frames due to how they are integrated into the wall. Are there any provisions or measures that can be taken that will allow us to use the original frames and just replace the doors? Note, the original doors are not fire doors and the partitions that the doors are set into are only 80mm wide (though I believe that the partitions are plastered brick rather than timber stud). Many thanks Charlie

I was wondering if somebody could offer me any advice on the entrance door into my flat? I've found the blue plug in the attached picture on the door which i believe means it is an FD30 fire door. If this is the case, does that mean I would just need to get a carpenter to fit a closer and intumescent smoke strips? I'd appreciate any advice anyone could offer at all. - Thanks in advance,

Hi , I have purchased an old fish and chip shop, do I need self closing fire doors leading from the frying area at the front of the shop leading into the kitchen at the back ?

Does anyone know of a manufacturer/website that can supply an angled fire door for the understairs cupboard?

Having googled and searched this forum to no avail I'm hoping someone here can help... A site has FD30's fitted with 25mm door stops. I'm in the process of fitting maglocks to them and on one door I have to mount it vertically on the side (the door has a curved top), in order to stop it sticking out further than necessary I was wondering if I could cut out a 20cm section of the doorstop and fit it there? Google only seems to mention gaps in the intumescent strips and nothing about a continuous door stop. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

Can someone tell me if a fire door designed to be kept locked shut requires a door closer to be fitted such as in a small laundry room in an educational establishment which is occasionally used by educational sraff but kept locked the majority of the time when not used to prevent children accessing the room.

Hello, I live in block of flats and the landlord asked me to change my external door for a fire door. However, 2 years ago someone told me my door IS a fire door. I have no labels on my door. How do I find out if my door is a fire door and who can give me a certificate for it if possible? My door's width is 45mm. Thank you.

Hi, could you tell me do linen cupboards in care homes, need to have fire doors, I should say that most of them do open on to escape routes. Thanks

Our building is two storey dwelling connected with another two storey dwelling. Each dwelling have two flats. I live on the top first floor and when open the doors there is a landing outside with length of around 4metres. It connects further to stairs landing we share with the other top flat. Our doors are old wooden with large window and not fire doors. I would like to replace it. Do I need to fit fire doors? Is the landing/balcony like/ a communal area if we are the only one using it? I understand the stairs are communal but it’s far from my doors. …

Dear fire door experts ... I live in a block of flats and someone is trying to persuade us that all the flat's front doors need replacing, but I'm not convinced. The block was purpose built in 1985 with 6 floors and 20 flats. It has a single stairwell, and on each floor there are two fire doors separating the stairwell from the landing. On each landing there are either 3 or 4 flats and AOV windows. I mentioned the AOV windows and the layout only because the impression I get is the block was built with consideration for fire safety. All the staircase and front doors are original. All the front doors have concealed door closers and a 1" door stop. In fact all th…