Fire Door Surveys

The key to passive fire protection lies in confining a fire to a specific compartment or room, providing occupants with adequate time to evacuate and allowing firefighters to intervene effectively. Among the crucial components of this protection are fire doors, designed to prevent the spread of fire and smoke within your premises.

However, given their frequent functional use, fire doors are at greater risk to damage and misuse. This is why it’s key to conduct regular surveys and promptly address any issues. This proactive approach not only helps prevent the need for replacements but, most importantly, ensures your buildings remain compliant with fire safety regulations.

What’s involved?

Our team of third-party accredited inspectors, examine every component of the doorset to determine their condition, including:

• Door leaf
• Door frame
• Glazing (vision panels)
• Intumescent door strip and cold smoke seals
• Ironmongery
• Self-closing devices
• Hinges
• Signage

These inspections often uncover issues requiring both remediation and replacement to ensure compliance with fire safety standards, and new installations are delivered in a fire compliant state, underwritten by Third Party certification and / or fire test evidence.

We provide detailed reports documenting the condition together with recommendations for remediation and repair solutions to bring the door back to its original condition.

We can provide full costs alongside your report, should you require it, for remediation of any defects found.

Fire Compartment Surveys

Inspection of service penetrations and voids in compartmentation, by trained professionals.

A typical fire compartmentation survey involves inspecting:

• Fire compartment walls.
• Floor slabs.
• Soffits.
• Fire-resisting doors, and voids, including those in the roof and at the perimeter edge, to assess their fire compliance. However, it can be limited to specific elements such as seals, service penetrations, gaps, and other imperfections in fire walls if required.

In addition to the fire compartmentation, we can investigate other built-in fire rated elements such as protection to the building’s structural steels, fire rated ceilings and ductwork.

These surveys can be either:

• Comprehensive: This involves a detailed inspection of the fire compartmentation of the building, where we will photograph and electronically record every defect, including marked drawings and schedules. The detailed documentation allows for the required remedial work to be accurately priced. 
• Indicative: Focuses on identifying non-compliance issues. It can detail all or various building elements and report issues found, together with photos and their locations to clearly indicate and record generic defects; providing ‘ballpark’ budget figures and recommendations if required.

The survey can be conducted:

• Visually (non-invasive), invasively, or using a combination of both methods.

• Note: Invasive surveys investigate elements hidden from view (such as seals around pipes and intumescent sealing and sealing of joints) allowing examination of fire seals in line with technical details and compliance requirements.

Given the various survey options available, we will agree on the format and composition of the Survey Report before starting the work to ensure the information is compiled with the necessary detail and in the required format.