Fire Door Inspections
Fire doors are an essential part of a building’s passive fire protection.
A fire door is a door with fire resistance used as part of a passive fire protection system to reduce the spread of smoke and fire between separate compartments of a structure and to enable safe egress from a building.
Regular inspection of your fire doors are essential to the integrity of the passive fire protection within your building.
This is where we can help, our trained inspectors will carry out a comprehensive inspection of the fire door sets within your building
Our checks include
- FD Rating
- Hardware
- Condition
- Operation
- Gaps
- Integrity
- Seals
- Frames
- Self-closers (where fitted)
- Glazing (where fitted)
- Signage
On completion of the fire door inspection a detailed report is issued and if any defects or deficiencies were identified a quotation will accompany the report.
What Is the Law about Fire Door Inspections?
Article 17 of the Fire Safety Order states “Where necessary in order to safeguard the safety of relevant persons the responsible person must ensure that the premises and any facilities, equipment and devices provided in respect of the premises under this Order or, subject to paragraph (6), under any other enactment, including any enactment repealed or revoked by this Order, are subject to a suitable system of maintenance and are maintained in an efficient state, in efficient working order and in good repair”
Did you know?
The FD code shows how many minutes of fire a door can withstand, for example an FD30 has been tested to withstand 30 minutes.
The main categories of fire door are FD30 and FD60.
We are Third Party UKAS Certificated under the BM Trada Fire Door Scheme
Why use a BM Trada Company?
Demonstrate competence in the maintenance of fire doors.
There is a legal requirement for manufacturers of fire doors to demonstrate the ability of their products to resist the passage and spread of fire. However, if they are not properly maintained, their fire resistance capabilities can be seriously compromised. The BM TRADA Q-Mark Fire Door Maintenance scheme has been designed to provide reassurance to specifiers, contractors and end users that the product they have chosen has been maintained correctly and that it should perform as intended.
What the scheme aims to achieve:
- Raise the on-going standard of maintenance of fire doors
- Ensure the product’s fire resistance capabilities are maintained
- Ensure the product’s service life is maximized through correct maintenance
- Provide peace of mind that the maintainer is suitably qualified and that their work is continually assessed by an independent body
- Provide specifiers with the means to demonstrate that the maintenance meets the required standard.
For further information on the scheme www.bmtrada.com
We are members of the National Association of Fire Door Inspectors (NAFDI)
