Fire door inspections for schools, nurseries and halls
Classroom doors, corridor doors and hall doors, done when the children are not there.
Get a priceA school has more fire doors than most buildings its size, and hardly any of them get a quiet life.
Every classroom door opens and shuts a hundred times a day. Corridor doors take bags, buggies and bumps. Somebody has stuck a laminated poster on the glass or a display on the leaf.
One school job we can talk about
We did two secondary schools and an almshouse in Luton, 147 doors in all. 140 of them were repaired. Seven had to be replaced.
Most of the fixes were small. Closers adjusted, seals renewed, a few hinges replaced, gaps put right. Replacing a door costs several times as much as repairing it, so we look for the repair first.
When we come
Term time is hard because the doors are in use. We work in the holidays, at weekends or in the evening, whichever suits you. For a nursery or a small hall we can often do it outside opening hours in a single visit.
What we look at
- Classroom and corridor doors, including glass panels and anything stuck on them
- Double doors on corridors and halls, which have to close in order
- Doors to kitchens, boiler rooms and stores
- Anything where a closer has been taken off because it kept banging
- Doors held open by a wedge, a bin or a chair
Double doors are harder than they look. If the leaves do not meet, or close in the wrong order, there is a gap down the middle where smoke can get through. The photo above shows a pair with a closer on each leaf.
Halls and community buildings
A church hall, a scout hut or a community centre has the same duty on it as an office. Somebody is the responsible person under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Often it is a volunteer or a trustee who has never heard of it.
If that is you, nobody expects you to know what a good fire door looks like. We will do the looking and write it down in plain language.
The report
One entry for every door, with a photo. A summary on the first page for the person who will not read the rest: how many doors, how many passed, how many need work and how urgent.
A business manager, a head or a set of governors can take that and decide what to spend. If a fire risk assessment has already pointed at the doors, we will answer its points directly.
Cost
Priced by the number of doors and the hours we can get in. A small building starts from around £250 plus VAT. Send us a rough count and we will come back the same day.
Questions we get asked
Do you need a member of staff with us?
Someone has to let us in and show us the plan. After that we work on our own.
Can the children be in the building?
Better not. We would rather work with the building empty or part empty.
Send the postcode and a rough number of doors. We will come back with a price the same day.
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