Fire Protection
Fire Door Installation & Inspection
Guardian Edge installs, inspects and remediates fire doors across the UK. A fire door only performs as a complete assembly — leaf, frame, intumescent seals, hinges, closer and gaps — and in multi-occupied residential buildings over 11 metres, the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 require quarterly checks of communal fire doors and annual checks of flat entrance doors.
The door, the frame, the ironmongery and the gaps — assessed as one assembly.
Who this is for
- Responsible persons for multi-occupied residential buildings
- Managing agents carrying out quarterly and annual door checks
- Housing providers with flat entrance doors across a stock
- Commercial occupiers whose fire risk assessment has flagged door defects
Problems it solves
- Doors have been replaced over the years with no record of their fire rating
- Gaps have opened up, seals are painted over, or closers have been disconnected
- Ironmongery has been swapped for non-fire-rated equivalents
- The building is over 11 metres and the required door checks are not happening
- Cables and pipes have been run through fire doors and frames
What Guardian Edge provides
Our fire door installation scope
What we provide
- FD30 and FD60 doorset supply and installation, certificated as complete assemblies
- Fire door inspection to a recorded methodology, with photographic evidence per door
- Remedial works — seals, closers, hinges, gap correction, ironmongery replacement
- Flat entrance door upgrades and replacement programmes
- Quarterly communal door checks and annual flat entrance door checks
- Door schedules and asset registers for the whole building
Typical scope
- Residential blocks, HMOs, student accommodation and supported housing
- Commercial, retail, industrial and public buildings
- Communal corridors, stairwells, risers, plant rooms and cross-corridor doors
- Single door replacement through to building-wide programmes
Before we price anything
Inspection & survey process
- 01
Build the door schedule
Every fire door located, numbered and recorded — most buildings do not have this, and nothing else can be managed without it.
- 02
Inspect as an assembly
Leaf, frame, seals, hinges, closer, glazing, signage and gaps. A compliant door with a failed closer is not a compliant doorset.
- 03
Grade and prioritise
Defects sorted into what stops the door working now and what should be programmed.
On site
How the work is delivered
- 01
Remedials agreed
Priced per door so you can approve by building, floor or phase.
- 02
Works carried out
In occupied buildings, with residents given notice and doors never left unsecured overnight.
- 03
Evidence captured
Photographs before and after against each door number, attached to the schedule.
- 04
Check cycle established
Quarterly and annual checks scheduled, so the regulatory duty runs on a calendar rather than on memory.
Compliance
What the rules actually require
- The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 require responsible persons for multi-occupied residential buildings over 11 metres to carry out quarterly checks of all communal fire doors and annual checks of flat entrance doors.
- For flat entrance doors, the duty is to use best endeavours to inspect — residents cannot be compelled to grant access, but the attempt and its outcome should be recorded.
- In all multi-occupied residential buildings, regardless of height, responsible persons must provide residents with information about the importance of fire doors to their safety.
- A fire door is tested and certificated as an assembly. Changing the hinges, closer or lock for uncertificated alternatives can invalidate the rating.
- Fire doors held open must be released automatically on alarm activation. A wedged fire door is a defect, and it is one of the most common findings in any building we survey.
Standards & legislation
These are not all the same kind of obligation, and we do not present them as if they were. A statutory duty is law. A British Standard is the recognised way of demonstrating you have met one. Guidance and our own recommendations are neither.
- Legal requirementFire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
Fire door duties in multi-occupied residential buildings
Quarterly communal fire door checks and annual flat entrance door checks in buildings over 11 metres; information to residents in all such buildings.
Read the primary source → - British StandardBS 8214
Timber-based fire door assemblies — code of practice
Specification, installation and maintenance guidance for timber fire doorsets.
- British StandardBS 476-22 / BS EN 1634-1
Fire resistance testing of door assemblies
The test methods behind FD30 and FD60 ratings. A door's rating comes from a tested assembly, not from the leaf alone.
Ongoing support
Planned, reactive and multi-site.
Most providers do one of these well. The value of a single provider is that the schedule, the emergency and the portfolio all sit in the same place.
Planned maintenance
- Quarterly and annual check programmes run to the regulatory cycle
- Planned door replacement across a building or a stock
- Door schedules kept current as doors are replaced
Reactive support
- Emergency securing and replacement after damage or forced entry
- Rapid remedial attendance where an inspection has found a door out of service
Multi-site & national portfolios
- Consistent inspection methodology across every building in a portfolio
- One register showing check dates and open defects estate-wide
- Programme delivery across regions on a single instruction
Procurement, simplified
What happens next?
- 01
Tell us what you need
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough to start.
- 02
We assess the requirement
We confirm scope, access, and whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.
- 03
You receive a clear quotation
Itemised, with what is included and what is not. No provisional sums that move later.
- 04
We arrange attendance
A confirmed date and window, with the engineer or trade named in advance.
- 05
Works are completed
Carried out by directly managed engineers or vetted specialist subcontractors.
- 06
Evidence is supplied
Certification, test records and photographic evidence where the work calls for it.
Answers
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Locations covered
- Aberdeen City
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Ards and North Down
- Argyll and Bute
- Armagh City Banbridge and Craigavon
- Barnsley
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Bedford
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Blackpool
- Blaenau Gwent
- Borough of Bolton
- Borough of Bury
- Borough of Halton
- Borough of Oldham
- Borough of Rochdale
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Get a quotation for fire door installation.
One form, one call or one email. A photograph or an existing report is enough for us to start — and we will tell you plainly whether a site survey is needed before anything is priced.