FIRE DOOR GOVERNANCE
Fire doors, managed cradle to grave.
Surveys, inspections, design input and remedial oversight, held together by one independent layer that owns the whole picture. We don't sell doors, so the advice is balanced: what the law actually requires, weighed against what's practical on site.
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THE PROBLEM
Surveyed to a standard the door was never built to meet
Here's what happens too often. A third party surveys legacy doors against today's standards, marks them all as failures, and hands you a replacement bill running into the tens of thousands. The doors never stood a chance, because they were never built to a spec that didn't exist when they were fitted.That is not always governance. Too often, it becomes a sales funnel.
What's missing is judgement: balancing the guidance, the law and the actual standards against the practical reality of the building in front of you.
WHAT WE DO
The whole door lifecycle, overseen
Surveys & inspections
Organised, competent surveys and inspections, judged against what the law actually requires for the building.
Technical notes & reviews
Independent technical notes to review findings, justify a position, or challenge a blanket fail.
Repair vs replace
An honest call on what can be repaired to standard and what genuinely needs replacing. We sell neither.
Competent contractors
We procure contractors genuinely competent to repair or replace, and oversee the work they do.
Design-stage input
Help getting the right doors specified and their suitability assessed at design stage, before mistakes get built in.
Contracted regimes
We organise and oversee ongoing inspection regimes, so doors stay maintained and compliant over time.
THE BALANCED APPROACH
Law and standards, weighed against the building
We assess doors using the law, not just blanket guidance, so legacy doors are judged fairly and proportionately rather than condemned wholesale. Where a door can be repaired to a compliant standard, we say so. Where it genuinely needs replacing, we say that too, and we commission contractors competent to do the work properly.
Then we keep it monitored and maintained, so the doors stay compliant long after the survey, not just on the day.
This can be a one-off survey or review, or a full managed door regime. Whatever the building needs.
PROOF
What this looks like in practice
Hotel · 200 bedrooms
Quoted at £1,800–£2,500 a door, the doors were almost all kept.
A fire door inspection recommended condemning and replacing nearly all 100 communal doors. We reviewed the strategy, traced the original manufacturer's data, and showed the doors could be upgraded to standard. Cost per door came down to £800–£1,000, phased around empty rooms so the hotel kept trading.
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Compartmentation
A door is only as effective as the wall it sits in. We check both, properly, so the strategy actually holds.
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Contractor management
Door work is where overcharging is rife. We tender, validate and oversee the contractors, without selling the work ourselves.
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Before you sign off a replacement bill, get an independent view. We'll tell you what genuinely needs replacing and what's a repair.