Fire door regulations UK
- Check records per year across the portfolio
- 316
- Doors on the register
- 166
- Doors under Regulation 10
- 136
Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs you enter, by the method stated below it. The only constants DoorsetBook supplies are the published check frequencies and the storey height they apply from, cited where used. The defaults are a worked example to replace with your own.
The fire door regulations in England, for a small property team, come down to one duty with two clocks. Regulation 10 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 applies to multi-occupied residential buildings with storeys over 11 metres in height, and asks the responsible person to undertake quarterly checks of all fire doors, including self-closing devices, in the common parts, and, on a best endeavour basis, annual checks of all flat entrance doors that lead onto the common parts. Everything else, the register, the reminders, the evidence of attempted access, is the record that proves those two clocks were kept.
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Sort the portfolio by the storey height
Regulation 10 turns on whether a residential building has storeys over 11 metres. The fire door regulations register on this site takes the buildings, the ones over the threshold, and the doors in each, and prints how many doors sit under the regulation, how many quarterly rounds and annual rounds the year holds, and how many check records the portfolio produces. The number is the workload, and it is usually larger than the spreadsheet suggested.
Run the two clocks as rounds, and record every door
The common-part doors are a quarterly round; the flat entrance doors are an annual round done on a best endeavour basis. Each round is a list of doors, each door a record with who checked it, what was found and what was done. Pro files the round against the building, reminds the person who owes it and keeps the record of the flat whose door could not be accessed, which is the evidence the fact sheet says to gather.
Keep the evidence of the doors you could not reach
Best endeavours means trying, and being able to show that you tried. Correspondence with the resident, the dates access was sought and the outcome belong on the door's record, not in an inbox. The register on this site counts the annual round; Pro keeps the attempt against the door with the date.
Fire door regulations UK: common questions
What do the fire door regulations require in England?
For multi-occupied residential buildings with storeys over 11 metres, Regulation 10 requires quarterly checks of all fire doors including self-closing devices in the common parts, and annual checks on a best endeavour basis of all flat entrance doors that lead onto the common parts, as the Home Office fact sheet cited on this page states.
What about buildings under the height threshold?
The general duty to keep fire doors in efficient working order still applies through your fire risk assessment, which sets the frequency. The register on this site lets you set your own checks per year for those buildings and counts them alongside the Regulation 10 doors.
Is there free fire door regulations software?
The seven tools on this site size the programme, cost the survey, plan the maintenance and build the register free, with no account, and you can print the results. DoorsetBook Pro adds the record: every check filed against the building and the door, the sign-offs, the reminders and the export.
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Keeping what you make
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into your fire door records: your logo on them, no watermark, every check filed against the building and the door, reminders to the people who owe the next quarterly or annual round, and clean exports when the fire authority or the insurer asks.
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A quarterly check that was done and not recorded is, to the fire authority, a check that was not done; the register exists so that the two clocks in Regulation 10 leave a trail a stranger can read.
Fire door regulations register (Check records per year across the portfolio): 316, DoorsetBook, worked example.
Cite as: "Fire door regulations UK, DoorsetBook", updated 2026-09-03, https://doorsetbook.com/fire-door-regulations-uk/.