When your risk assessment mentions the doors
A line in the report says "fire doors to be inspected". Here is what that means.
Get a priceYou open the report and find a line like "fire doors in poor condition, recommend full inspection".
It is a common outcome. An assessor walking round a whole building has a lot to cover and cannot spend half an hour on each door.
That is not a failing on their part. A risk assessment and a door inspection are two different jobs.
What the assessor does and does not do
Assessors walk the whole building. Escape routes, the alarm panel, emergency lighting, the boiler cupboard somebody has filled with boxes.
A door that hangs open will catch their eye, and so will a gap you could put your hand through.
They will not normally measure every gap or open every door to check the seals and the label. That is the detail an inspection adds.
What to do next
Read the action in the report. Look at the priority they gave it and any date.
Then book the inspection. Got a date to meet? Put it in your first message and we will plan round it.
Give us a copy of the report, or the page about doors, so we start from what the assessor saw.
What we send back
A door by door report, with a photo and a status for each. You can attach it to your fire risk assessment file as evidence that the action was followed up.
If doors need repair, the report is the basis for a price. Repairs go to our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors. You can also use anyone else.
Old panelled doors
If you have old panelled doors in a block, they will not give you a fire rating. Painting or boarding them does not rescue them. The sensible answer is a plain certified doorset.
We tell you straight when a door is beyond saving.
If the fire service has written
A letter from the fire and rescue service is a different matter. Send it with your enquiry. It tells us what they were looking at, and we can aim the inspection at that.
Questions we get asked
Does a door inspection replace a fire risk assessment?
No. They are separate services. An inspection looks at doors in depth. An assessment covers the whole building. You need the assessment either way.
Can the inspector fix what they find?
The inspection comes first and repairs are priced from the report. That keeps the two apart.
Send us the postcode and a rough count of doors. A price comes back the same day.
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