Fire Doors and Accessories

We occupy three floors of a self contained office building with fire doors on each floor( besides the external door for entering ). We are going to let the ground floor. When we have the tenant I wondered if I can make the fire doors on the top two floors lockable. To be locked at the end of the day. Is this permisible.

I have 4 safety fire doors in my property linked to sensor fire alarm. Is it safe to shut the doors over night or should they be left open? Thank you

Afternoon, I am chair of the local scout group and over the weekend had a break in via the external fire doors. I wanted to ask could the fire doors have slip bolts attached top and bottom and used when the building is empty or are we to leave fire doors with no additional bolts attached. Many Thanks Hilary

We have a holiday let and live in a house next door. The let has a front and back door. In addition, there is a passageway connecting the two houses with two doors, installed in 2004. Question: do these connecting doors need to be fire safe? How do you check that they are fire safe if there are no apparent certifications on the doors themselves?

I'm aware of the normal fire door id plugs but I can't find any info on a plug the surface of which is split into three coloured sections. Any info please?

Is there any regulation on what surface should be beneath a fire door? Does it have to be a hard solid surface or is carpet allowed?

We are exhibition contractors and are installing a small partition wall in a showroom that will contain a door to link the rooms. This will create a small room approx 4.5m x 6m this has double fire doors leading into the warehouse from the showroom. Does the doors we are building need to be a repeat of the other fire doors with a fire exit sign as it will be leading to the fire exit in the next room or can it just be a normal double door with no fire safety features. Cheers

I'm hoping you would be able to help me. A client of mine wishes to have copper ironmongery throughout his property, however the majority of doors are fire doors and therefore have steel hinges. Is it possible to have the steel hinges copper coated; will this effect the fire rating? Many thanks for your help

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We have all of the fire doors and fire door frames (certified from source) to fit 5 new doors and frames in a mid terraced property to rent. Does this require specialist installation by a specialist installer? If not, can we D I Y ? If diy is permissible, please could you advise how to fill in space either side when gap is up to 2". Door frames and door manufactured to size closest to apeture. Old doors removed. Any help and advice warmly appreciated.

Hi I work for a campaign group in Hounslow, all are members have learning disabilities. A lot of our campaigns help to make Hounslow a better place to live and work. Recently we asked a library to adjust the doors to the ladies, gents and disabled toilets so that they will be easier to use. This is a busy library and the toilets are also used by many people visiting the Citizen Advce Bureau. The doors are difficult to use for able bodied people even without carrying shopping bags, etc. they are even more difficult for disabled people, the elderly, parents with young children and prams, etc. The libraries response was that they are fire doors and they comply with health …

I have a question that I have not found an answer to on your forum and wonder if you could help. I have been asked to find out if it is permissible to add draught excluder to a fire door? Your advice would be appreciated. These are nominal fire doors situated at the top of a flight of stairs leading into an office. Thank you in advance for your help.

I am 86 years of age, seriously disabled with major Heart Problems to the extent that my Cardiac Professor's' advise me not to cause extertion to my Failing Heart.(Certification is available). My Door Closer should be Electrically Operated and I would be pleased if you can confirm this.

Where our electrical cupboard for the consumer unit and meter,etc is situated is directly under the stairs, but the door to it is only some rubbish chipboard painted white which wouldn't probably last a second in a fire. And would block our only escape route(except for jumping out of the 1st floor windows) if a fire broke out in there. Also I'm not sure if under the stairs themselves would need to be sprayed/coated with something fire retardant as well. As I don't know how quickly they would burn in a fire;at least would take longer than the thin chipboard cupboard door. And would the conducts of where the cables from the consumer unit go through the plaster…

please advise me of the miimum width of a fire escape route door opening in a domestic dwelling.

I have been told by a manufacturer tha to use a timber veneer type product as the facing material on any fire door then the maximum approved thickness cannot be greater than 2.0mm. Is this correct and if so where can I find the regulations associated with facing materials

Hi, are there any guidances or legislations concerning the position of MDR in relationship with closing device? When designing door retainers to doors with floor mounted springs and high level closers, with say, regard to prevent door stresses and the fire door from warping so that the retainer should be mounted adajacent to the closer? Or would this be just best practice?

please advise on the technical difference between a 1 hour fire door and a 2 hour fire door, besides the obvious 1hr fire rating. thanks

We have had a recent fire inspection and have been advised that we need to fit smoke seals and intumescent strips to our existing fire doors which are over 30 years old. The Building Manager has raised concerns that we should not be modifying or adapting exsiting fire doors and this may be in breach of Building Regs? Is this correct? We have been advised that intumescent strips are within the lippings of some of the existing doors and in order to fit smoke seals we will need to rout out the door edges to fit the smoke seal. Can you please advise if we can modify existing door sets? Many Thanks

We are refurbishing a block of flats. Currently the flat doors, communal doors and riser cupboards all have the intumescent strips and seals installed in the door frames but not in the doors. Does this comply with regulations?

When fitting a fire door, if you plane off the hardwood edge lipping, does this compromise the integrity of the fire door even if you still install intumescent strips?

We need to fit a service hatch between a plant room and a service corridor. It should be 1hour fire rated. Can we simply use a small door of 1mtrs square with a closer and latch or does this break the rules. Can you supply such a door and frame please and if so how much. Thanks

I am enquiring if you can help me find the answer to the following question. There are fire doors in the house I am currently living in (from looking around on your website, I have no idea what kind of fire doors) and I am interested in fixing coat hooks to the back of the doors. I have checked and the screws do not protrude though the fire door. Can you please advise me where I can find information on this, ie. I would like to know if this is possible or will fixing the coat hooks nullify the fire door status. Thank you

We would like to know how thick glass fire rated doors must be (1 hour). Many thanks

Hi I would like some advise, please. I work in a care home and would like to know where I can get information on whom to contact when someone has a question about fire prevention. We are not too sure where we stand about fire prevention. Two residents always have their bedroom doors openday and night, as they feel hot, where do we stand legally, in case there is a real fire? We do a fire drill every week. Do we get the residents to sign a disclimer to say that they take full responsible if there is a real fire? Please advise as we are getting no where. Many thanks