Fire door inspection in Amersham
Old doors in old buildings. We tell you which are worth keeping and which have to go.
Get a priceAmersham has an Old Town and a newer part up the hill, near the station.
Different buildings, different doors.
The Old Town
Older buildings come with older doors. Plenty of them are handsome and plenty are panelled.
Here is the plain version. A panelled door is thin where the panels sit. It was never made to hold back fire. Cutting into it, or fitting intumescent strips to it, does not turn it into a fire door, and trying to do that can make things worse.
A certified FD30 door is a solid leaf, usually 44mm thick, with a strip of intumescent in the edge that swells in heat. The panels in a panelled door can be about a centimetre of timber.
If the door is on the escape route in a building that needs fire doors, the answer is a plain certified doorset. We say that straight away, because the alternative is a report that sounds kinder and leaves you with a door that will not work.
Listed buildings
If the building is listed, its doors cannot be swapped on a whim. Talk to Buckinghamshire Council about listed building consent before you change anything on a protected building.
What we can do is report on the doors as they are. That gives your conservation officer, your assessor and your contractor the same facts.
Around the station
Up by the station and the newer streets, flats and offices with certified doors. Wear is the fault here. Closers worn out. Seals chewed. Hinges loose from years of use.
Quick to write up. Mostly repairable.
Who enforces
Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service enforces fire safety. Buckinghamshire Council covers housing standards. A block of flats over 11 metres also falls under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.
Getting here
Luton, the M25, the M40 to High Wycombe, then on. Two buildings in Amersham go in one visit.
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