Fire Doors and Accessories

Is it necessary to have a fire door between the kitchen and the public area in a small takeaway café?

Hi I work for a landlord who owns three Houses in Multiple Occupation. They are just being re-licensed (well, two of them as the third is not required to be licensed). We have been asked to remove the brush-type smoke seals we installed five years ago and queries this request. This is the reply they have given: ***The reason for asking for the removal of these seals is, as you have stated in your letter, because they stop smoke escaping through the door. As there are no smoke alarms within these rooms, should a fire start in any of these bedrooms, the brush seals would prevent smoke escaping out of the room to the nearest smoke detector and alerting all other tenant…

Does a green plug in a door indicate a FD30 ?

My housing association landlord is trying to insist on fitting a fire door to the kitchen, the problem is they are refusing to match it up to the style of all my other doors which I have installed at my own cost, I live in a self contained 2nd floor flat. Do they have the law on their side to insist that I must comply.

When does an external door leading to the outside need to be fire rated

Looking for advice, my daughter is in a shared student house with 2 other girls, the house has a basement and converted loft. The girls have bedrooms on two floors. My main concern is lack of doors, no door between stairs and dining room and only a curtain between dining room and kitchen. The agent has told the girls that this is acceptable , I disagree, could you advise. Only a normal door between basement and dining room too.

Hi All, As far as I can gather BS7273-4 stipulates certain maximum times for failing safe with door closers which are different for Category A, B or C. Can someone with access to the spec please tell me if there is an maximum activation time from normal fire alarm specified? The maximum time to activation for faults such as short or open circuits is 2 minutes and 6 minutes for loss in radio comms for Cat A and 120 minutes for Cats B & C. There are other documents I've seen that state that the system should behave in fault conditions exactly as it would in fire alarm conditions, so does that imply a maximum of 2 minutes from fire alarm activation? Also if BS7…

Hi I am after advice regarding veneering a 30 min fire door and still keeping within the fire regulations. Please can you advise on this? Regards John

Hello, I am living in house, provided by my employer in England. This is renovated one. We found our fire doors very heavy to open. Is here any regulation which determines how heavy the fire doors should be?

Hi We are a small modular building manufacturer in Yorkshire. We are currently struggling to find reliable information regarding when cold smoke seals are required in addition to intumescent strips. Would you be an organisation that could help us with this? Kind Regards Barry

Hi My name is Chris I am the manager of The Heathers residential home in Kettering. I have 3 doors within the service that I need to purchase free swing door devices on the respond to the fire alarm but swing freely throughout the day. Could you help me with this? Many thanks Chris Gell

Hi, I have a situation where new fire doors were fitted to elderly tenants flats with Perko's. The doors were too heavy for the tenants, so the Perko's where disconnected from the frame and an overhead free swing device was fitted (In some cases the Perko has been removed completely). Once the door is closed, there is still a gap between the frame and disconnected Perko which compromises the integrity of the fire door. I am looking for some advice on how to overcome this issue. Thanks

I am a leaseholder of a council 2 bed flat and the council will be introducing additional HMO licencing. I rent the flat to 3 people as rooms, shared areas are kitchen (with a folding, always open door), bathroom and hallway. I have a smoke detector alarm and a carbon monoxide detector in the hallway, across from the kitchen and boiler. I recently had an unrelated inspection of my flat by the council and in light of the requirement for licensing this HMO bedsit from 1 Nov 2015 I was advised to install 1) Smoke detectors in the living room and 2 bedrooms; 2) A heat detector in the kitchen; 3) A carbon monoxide detector in any room containing a gas appl…

We are a large split site school and would like some advice on fire procedures and fire door regulations as we are currently undergoing a refurb on all final exit doors. Many thanks Dean

We have moved into an old building and have turned what was 2 small rooms with 1 fire exit each into one room. Please would you advise us if we are within the law to remove one of the fire-doors and brick it up? Is there anything we have to do/ anyone to be informed? Many thanks Linda

Having a 2 storey side extension built on my property consisting of a downstairs garage and rooms above it. The main entrance door is on the side of the house at the front with the new garage behind it and the bedrooms overhanging to form a car port open onto a driveway. There is no direct access between garage and house, but have been informed that the entrance door to the house needs to be FD30. Have checked the fire regs and these only relate to doors/windows with direct access between garage and house. see attached crude pic Any thoughts as to whether a fire door is required? regards

I would like to know what the regulations are about the safety check of fire doors, how often they need checking when the fire door opens from a shop into a rented private residential area. It is obviously necessary for checks to be done but frequency and times of day are in question. Could you give me some idea of procedures. thank you

Hello, I was wondering about the new property I am buying. Me and my partner will be renovating it when the process of buying goes through. I would like to change the internal doors inside. Some are fire doors the seller has mentioned. I had done some research and it has mentioned on a ground floor flat you don't need fire doors as long you have means of escape. Every room has a window. Plus if the habitable areas are linked to the hallway. Which they all are just wanting to ask you guys to see what you think of the situation. Thanks

Is it possible to have a fire door that opens both directions?

i am looking for a half hour sliding FD for a domestic bedroom approx 720 to 820 wide by 2+ metres -nothing fancy or too expensive - would appreciate your advice - thanks and regards - leo

I am aware of somebody who likes to wedge their (fire safety) door open. The property is leasehold flats. I've spoken to him but he doesn't appear to take it seriously. What can I do?

Hello - I'm planning on fitting some fire strips on the bedroom doors of a property that I rent out. Could you please tell me if I need to fit the strips to the bottom of the door or if just fitting them around the other 3 sides is adequate? Thanks in advance for any advice.

Having a new fire door installed so it gives us internal access from the hall to the garage, I know the plasterboards need to be stripped out to install a new frame in the wall, then the fire door casing installed, what size does the casing need to be if the door is 2040 x 726mm ?? Thanks Shirley :unsure:

Hi please can you tell me if i need to fit internal fire doors on a flat that is being refurbished, regards.

Quick query: at my local Cricket Club we have a double set of fire doors that we need to use for access from the outside and egress from inside, but players are leaving the door open as there is no closer - therefore causing a security issue. What fire door closers can we install to make sure that the doors close in sequence and latch? Can we vary speed and force? Tanks Sarah