Fire door inspection in Bromley
A gauge on every edge, a photo of every door and a report you can hand on. Send the postcode and a door count and a price comes back the same day.
Get a priceA fire door has to close itself, latch, and hold back smoke while people get out. Plenty of them don't, and the reason is rarely dramatic. The closer has been wound down because the door was heavy, or a gap along the side has opened up to the width of a coin.
Open the door and let go to see for yourself. It takes ten seconds. The rest of an inspection takes a lot longer, and that is where most of the faults turn up.
We inspect fire doors in Bromley and the towns around it. Blocks of flats, schools, care homes, offices and units. If you look after the building, you are who we work for.
What you send us
The postcode. Roughly how many doors. What sort of building it is.
A photo of a door or two helps us, though we can price without one, and we reply the same day.
Once we are in the building
We number every door on a plan or a list and take them in that order. When you read the report you can walk to door 12 and find the same photo.
The gauge goes on each edge. Top, hanging side, closing side and underneath. A door that has sagged on its hinges can be 2mm at one end of an edge and 6mm at the other, so one reading is no use.
Next the hinges. We count them and look at the screws. A missing screw is common. A screw that does not match the others is nearly as common.
Then the seal. The strip in the edge of the door or frame should be there all the way round, and it should be bare. Paint on a seal stops it swelling in a fire.
We look for proof of what the door is. A label or plug in the edge, or a stamp in the corner of the glass.
The last check is the closer. Door wide open, let go, watch.
What you get
A written report, door by door, with photographs. Pass or fail, what is wrong, and how soon it needs sorting.
If a door only needs a closer adjusting, the report says that and nothing more. If a door needs to come out, it says that too and tells you why.
Fire risk assessors, managing agents and insurers can all read it without a phone call to you.
Repairs can be priced from the same report. Our BM TRADA / FIRAS-certificated contractors carry them out, and you do not have to use them. Take the report to your own carpenter if you prefer.
Who is responsible
In a block it's normally the freeholder, or whoever runs the common parts. That person carries the duty under the Fire Safety Order. Since the Fire Safety Act 2021 it covers flat front doors too.
In a building over 11 metres there are fixed checks under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. Communal doors every three months. Flat entrance doors every twelve months, and you have to try your best to get in and keep a record if you can't.
Below 11 metres there's no fixed interval. The doors still have to work. London Fire Brigade enforces the Order here, as it does across London.
Rough cost
A small building starts from around £250 plus VAT. After that it depends on the number of doors and how easy they are to reach.
A school in the holidays goes quickly. A block where each resident has to be caught at home does not.
We drive in from Luton, so there is no office in Bromley. When we can, we book several jobs in the area for the same day.
Questions we get asked
Is this the same as a fire risk assessment?
No. A fire risk assessment is a separate service that covers the whole building. We look closely at every door. Neither one stands in for the other.
Do we need to empty the building?
No. We need a few minutes at each door and a way into each room that has one.
Where we go
Bromley and the places around it, all inside the same London borough. We drive in from Luton, so we try to put a few visits on one day.
Send the postcode and a rough number. A price comes back the same day.
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