Building regulations fire doors in flats is a design question answered by Approved Document B, Volume 1, cited below: the guidance for dwellings on where fire doors protect a flat's own escape route, the entrance door onto the common parts and the doors on the common stairs and corridors. The building control body checks the work against it. What survives the build is the installation record, the evidence that the doorsets the design required were fitted as certified, and it is the record every later check reads. The fire door installation record on this site prints it per door, free.
What the design requires
The flat entrance door protecting the common corridor, the doors onto the protected stair, the doors between compartments, and in some layouts the doors inside the flat that protect its entrance hall. The strategy lists them; the register on this site records the list per building for the responsible person who inherits it.
What the installation record proves
That the doorset fitted is the certified doorset, by the installer named, on the date, to the instructions, with the components as certified. Without it a later responsible person is surveying doors that were new a year ago. The installation record on this site carries the installer, the scheme, the date and the evidence.
After handover
The Fire Safety Order applies to the common parts from occupation, and Regulation 10's checks apply where the block is over 11 metres. The installation record is the starting condition the checks are read against. The certification record holds the doorset's evidence; the checklist is the check.
Alterations
Any later work on a flat's doors is building work again under Approved Document B, and the installation record is updated with the new doorset. A record that stops at the original build is out of date at the first replacement. DoorsetBook Pro keeps the record per door over its life.
Questions people ask about building regulations fire doors in flats
Who holds the installation record?
The responsible person for the building, from the developer at handover. The register on this site is where a portfolio's records start.
Are fire doors in flats always required?
The design decides under Approved Document B; a flat entrance door onto a common corridor is the usual case.
Is the installation record free?
Yes, without an account.