Fire door inspection requirements
- Door checks per year
- 156
- Checklist items recorded per year
- 1,872
- Inspection hours per year
- 16
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Fire door inspection requirements in England come from two places: Regulation 10 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, which sets the quarterly and annual clocks for multi-occupied residential buildings over 11 metres, and the fire risk assessment under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, which decides the inspection regime for every other premises. What an inspection covers is the same everywhere: the leaf, the frame, the gaps, the seals, the closer, the hinges, the glazing, the signage and the hold-open. The fire door inspection checklist on this site runs it, free; DoorsetBook Pro keeps the register.
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The Regulation 10 clock
Quarterly checks of all fire doors in the common parts, including the self-closing devices, and annual best-endeavour checks of flat entrance doors, for multi-occupied residential buildings over 11 metres. Recorded, because a check that is not recorded is not evidence.
Everywhere else: the risk assessment decides
Offices, schools, care homes, hotels and shops inspect at the frequency the fire risk assessment sets, and the responsible person has to be able to show the fire authority that the doors are maintained. The fire door regulations register on this site holds which duty applies to which building.
What the inspection covers
Leaf and frame condition, the gaps at the head and the sides and the threshold, intumescent and smoke seals, the closer and whether it closes from any angle, hinges and fixings, glazing and beading, signage, and hold-open devices. The checklist on this site walks every item and records the finding.
The register and the remedial action
Each door with its findings, the action, who did it and when. Pro keeps that per door and produces the register the fire authority asks for. From the vendor's own pricing page, IgnisTrack is £49 per user per month, £45 per user for two to four users and £40 for five to nine; DoorsetBook Pro is £49 per month for the whole building portfolio, and every tool on this site computes free with no account.
Fire door inspection requirements: common questions
Are fire door inspections a legal requirement?
For multi-occupied residential buildings over 11 metres in England, Regulation 10 sets quarterly and annual checks; elsewhere the fire risk assessment under the 2005 Order sets the regime.
Is the inspection checklist free?
Yes, with no account. Pro keeps the register per door.
Who can carry out the inspection?
A competent person; for the Regulation 10 checks that can be the responsible person's own staff, trained, with the record kept.
Will it do what you need for Fire door inspection requirements?
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