johno12345

I am conducting a fire risk assessment, and have a set of 1st floor offices, two exit stairwells, one at the end which is protected, and the other is part way down, leaving two offices and a tiny office with only one escape route which is only about 8 meters to the top of the stairs. There is a door a few meters back from the stairs, but not fire resisting. None of the doors onto the corridor are fire resisting, but the section with two escapes has fire doors at each end before each set of stairs. I'm thinking that the dead end section could be satisfied with the installation of automatic detection to the corridor, stairwell and exit lobby downstairs, considering the short distance, the low risk in the offices and that there are only two staff regularly occupying the area. To make the doors fire resisting would require the wall to be replaced as its a steel partition with polycarbonate glazing, so thats what I'm trying to avoid.

thanks, its actually better than I thought. I probably could do with a refresher, I do have the qualification Nebosh fire safety & Risk management, but when its only used once a year in a familiar building, its easy to lose the skills. Fire compartmentation is an area i need to brush up on Thanks

is it a legitimate repair to plant a hardwood timber on the edge of a fire door to make it fit better? do 1 hour doors still require the 1" rebate too? The questions are arising from a new building that has been constructed, rather than the old parts I do think that we have lots of fire doors that dont need to be fire doors, as people like to put badges on them over the years for some reason

Hi, I work in a commercial environment, no sleeping occupants, no disabled, no high risk occupants. I am also trained to complete fire risk assessments, but have only done them in my place of work, this was over 10 years ago, so im, perhaps, a bit foggy these days. Right, so, we have a number of fire doors, mostly FD30S but some FD60S. I was always of the understanding that if they shut properly under their own power, stayed shut and weren't damaged, had intumescent strips, suitable sign, then they were ok to remain in service, no need to replace or query. they are all solid doors as expected, but fitted into existing frames, as in, not a complete purchased door-set. Installed over many decades, repaired as required, I think they are all in good order, less than 5mm gap on them. Now, someone has turned up and stated (loudly) that none of them comply, for various reasons, including gaps more than 2mm, not certified labels on them, not installed as a complete door-set, and so on. This includes the doors that were installed and passed through building control a couple of years ago. To replace them all would cost somewhere in the region of £100k I'm looking for some guidance that my original thoughts are still valid. I also recall that automatic fire detection can negate the need for fire doors, and we have, indeed, fitted additional automatic detection as part of routine upgrades to the building. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks