Fire door inspection for factories and offices
Units, warehouses and offices. Done around your shifts, with the doors written up one by one.
Get a priceA workplace has a different set of door problems.
Forklifts hit them. Staff prop them. Somebody adds a card reader and cuts a hole in the leaf.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 an employer has to keep the escape routes safe. The doors are part of that.
What we see at work
Doors held open with a fire extinguisher, a bin or a box of paper.
Impact damage at forklift height. The edge of the leaf is chewed, and the seal is gone.
Access control fitted without thinking about the door. A magnetic lock that stops the door closing, or a keypad where a lock case used to be.
Closers slackened off because staff said the door was heavy.
Glass vision panels with no marking. If you cannot see a stamp on the glass, we note it as unknown.
Working around you
We can start at 7am before the office fills. We can do a unit on a Saturday. For a shift site, we ask the manager to tell us which doors are in use at which times.
Each door is out of action for a few minutes.
We do not take over. Tell us where not to go and we stay out of it.
Pairs and double doors
Workplaces have more pairs of doors than flats do. These need the meeting gap, the rebate and the coordinator checked as well.
A coordinator is the bit that makes the first door shut before the second. If it is missing or bent, the pair will not seal. It is on our list for every pair.
Large sites
If you have 50 or more doors, say so when you ask for a price. We plan those over more than one day and sometimes use a second inspector.
Questions we get asked
Do fire shutters count?
Fire shutters are a different thing and need a specialist. We cover hinged fire doors, and we will say if something is outside that.
Can you do a site in one day?
For a small unit, yes. A bigger site depends on the number of doors.
Send the postcode and a rough door count. We will come back with a price today.
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