Commercial fire doors
Fire doors only protect people and escape routes if they are fitted correctly and kept in good repair. Our sister company, Aran Fire Protection, supplies, installs, inspects and maintains fire doors at commercial properties.
- Supply and installation
- Inspection and maintenance
- Commercial premises
At a glance
- Delivered by
- Aran Fire Protection, our sister company
- Group
- New Path Fire and Security
- Services
- Supply, installation, inspection and maintenance
- Installed to
- Manufacturer's test data and installation specifications
- Also
- Fire stopping surveys
- Premises
- Offices, warehouses, care homes, schools, laboratories
Overview
Fire door supply, installation, inspection and maintenance
Fire doors hold back fire and smoke and protect the routes people use to escape, but only when they are installed properly and looked after. Fire door services for our customers are provided by our sister company, Aran Fire Protection, which provides passive fire protection and fire door services to customers throughout the New Path Fire and Security group. BDi Advance is part of the same group.
- Fire doors supplied and installed for commercial buildings
- Installed in line with the manufacturer's test data and installation specifications
- Each installation completed and secured within a day
- Periodic inspections with digital condition reports
- Maintenance of door gaps, hardware and frame fire stopping
- Fire stopping surveys using your fire strategy drawings
Not sure whether your fire doors are compliant? Call 01223 566 599 or send us your details.
Your duties
What the law expects of your fire doors
Fire doors are part of the fire safety measures the responsible person for a building must look after. This is general information, not legal advice.
Keep fire doors in good repair
All premises
The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires fire safety facilities, equipment and devices to be subject to a suitable system of maintenance and kept in efficient working order and good repair. That includes fire doors.
Check them regularly
Commercial premises
There is no single fixed inspection interval for commercial buildings. Fire doors are among the most used items in a building, so heavily used doors are at greater risk of damage and need checking more often.
Blocks of flats over 11 metres
Not commercial
Since 23 January 2023 the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 require communal fire doors to be checked at least every 3 months and flat entrance doors at least every 12 months. These fixed intervals do not apply to commercial buildings.
Use approved parts
Repairs
Replacement hardware should be approved in conjunction with the door manufacturer or, in the absence of test data, meet BS 8214.
Keep a record
Ongoing
A record of each inspection and the remedial work that followed helps show your fire doors are being maintained.
Fire door services
Fire door services for commercial buildings
Aran Fire Protection supplies, installs, inspects and maintains fire doors at commercial properties nationwide. New doors are installed in line with the manufacturer's test data and installation specifications, and existing doors are maintained to recognised performance standards.
Alongside fire doors, Aran carries out fire stopping surveys, so the gaps and penetrations around your doors and walls are dealt with as well.
Installation and maintenance
A fire door is a tested assembly, so how it is fitted and repaired matters as much as the door itself.
Fire door installation
Fire doors are installed in line with the manufacturer's test data and installation specifications. The manufacturer's fire door test evidence is submitted as part of the operation and maintenance manual, and each installation is completed and secured within a day so apertures are not left open overnight.
Fire door maintenance
Maintenance can include adjusting door gaps to approved tolerances, replacing hardware with parts approved in conjunction with the door manufacturer (or to BS 8214 where there is no test data), and making sure frame to wall gaps are fire stopped correctly.
Inspections and fire stopping surveys
Regular inspection finds damage and wear before it stops a door doing its job.
Periodic fire door inspections
Periodic door inspections are recorded on a digital system, so you can view full condition reports and monitor and action ongoing maintenance requirements.
Fire stopping surveys
Using the building's existing fire strategy drawings, digital live pins are dropped onto the floor plan to show exactly where fire stopping works are required, with a full audit trail of the works carried out.
Fire doors are one part of your building's passive fire protection. Gaps around frames and service penetrations need sealing too. More about fire stopping
Fire safety services
Fire doors as part of your wider fire safety
Fire doors work alongside the other fire safety measures in your building: the assessment that decides what is needed, the fire stopping that seals the gaps, and the alarm that tells people to leave.
BDi Advance provides fire alarm systems and ongoing maintenance for fire and security systems, so fire doors can be planned alongside the rest of your fire safety.
Fire risk assessments
Where fire doors fit in
A fire risk assessment looks at how your building is protected and evacuated in a fire, including the fire doors on escape routes. Arranged through our sister company, Pyro Fire.
Fire stopping
Sealing the gaps
Fire stopping seals gaps and service penetrations in fire-resisting walls and floors, including the gap between a door frame and the wall.
Fire alarms
Detection and warning
A fire alarm system detects a fire and warns people to leave, while fire doors protect the routes they use to get out.
Fire door checks
What a fire door inspection looks at
Fire doors are among the most used items in a building, so they are at greater risk of damage than most fire safety measures.
These are the four areas an inspection and maintenance visit concentrates on.
Door gaps
The gaps around the door leaf are checked against approved tolerances and adjusted where needed.
Why it matters: gaps outside tolerance can let fire and smoke past a closed door.
Hardware
Hinges, self-closing devices and other hardware are checked, and replaced with parts approved in conjunction with the door manufacturer or, without test data, to BS 8214.
Why it matters: a door that does not close itself fully cannot hold back fire.
Frame to wall
The gap between the door frame and the surrounding wall is checked to make sure it is fire stopped correctly.
Why it matters: an unsealed frame gap can let fire bypass an otherwise sound door.
Condition reports
Findings are recorded on a digital system, so you can view full condition reports and action ongoing maintenance.
Why it matters: a record of inspections and repairs helps show your doors are being maintained.
Fire door installation
How a fire door installation works
New fire doors are installed in line with the manufacturer's test data and installation specifications, and handed over with the test evidence you need to keep on file.
Supply
Fire doors supplied for the openings in your building
Installation
Fitted in line with the manufacturer's test data and installation specifications
Same-day completion
Each installation completed and secured within a day, so apertures are not left open overnight
Documentation
The manufacturer's fire door test evidence submitted as part of the operation and maintenance manual
Ongoing inspection
Periodic inspections and maintenance, with digital condition reports
Specialist fire door work within the New Path group
BDi Advance and Aran Fire Protection are both part of the New Path Fire and Security group. Aran provides passive fire protection and fire door services to offices, warehouses, care homes, schools, laboratories and many other commercial organisations throughout the UK, and works on fire doors for customers across the group.
Fire doors for commercial buildings across Cambridgeshire, East Anglia and beyond
We are a Cambridgeshire business with local engineers, based in Huntingdon. Aran supplies, installs, inspects and maintains fire doors at commercial properties nationwide.
Areas we cover
Our fire and security engineers cover Cambridgeshire and East Anglia, including Cambridge, Huntingdon, Peterborough, St Ives, Newmarket, Bury St Edmunds and Bishops Stortford.
Our engineers are local to the region, and we also work with national clients across the UK.
Buildings we work in
Aran provides fire door services to offices, warehouses, care homes, schools, laboratories and many other commercial organisations.
- Offices
- Warehouses
- Care homes
- Schools
- Laboratories
Busy corridors, stairwells and plant rooms put fire doors under constant wear, so each building is inspected on its own terms.
Aran Fire Protection installed 173 new fire doors in a high school over the summer holidays, as part of a CIF-funded project for academies, sixth form colleges and voluntary aided schools, addressing health and safety, building compliance and building condition.
Project example: Medway Town School, summer 2021 · Read about the project
Next step
Find out if your fire doors are compliant
Whether you need new fire doors, repairs to existing ones or a programme of periodic inspections, tell us about your building and your doors and we will put you in touch with the right team.
Talk to us about your fire doors
Ask about fire doorsCall 01223 566 599Part of the New Path Fire and Security group
Frequently asked questions
Fire door services are provided by our sister company, Aran Fire Protection. Aran provides passive fire protection and fire door services to customers throughout the New Path Fire and Security group, of which BDi Advance is part.
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