If you are a housing professional, a tenant, or a carpenter, your may be wondering if you need to be aware of fire doors, or if they’re something that you can strike off your ‘to worry about’ list.
Hate to tell you, but they should be much higher on lots of people’s lists – from a safety, and a legal perspective.
Fire door services aren’t just for big commercial buildings or fancy new developments. In fact, any building where people live, work, learn, or receive care probably needs fire doors. And of course, they need to be properly installed, inspected, maintained and when needed, replaced.
Residential buildings (big and small)!
Size is no object when it comes to safety, so a tiny property doesn’t always mean that fire protection doesn’t need to be considered! We work alongside a variety of organisations to ensure that tenants across London and the Home Counties can feel safe in the knowledge that they are protected by fully compliant passive fire protection measures. We work with:
Social housing providers: Local councils and housing associations are legally responsible for maintaining compliant fire doors, especially since the introduction of new regulations. Many now require quarterly communal door checks and annual flat entrance inspections.
Private landlords: From single HMOs to apartment blocks, landlords must prove fire doors are in place, working, and maintained. This can be a bit overwhelming, but working with a trusted partner can help ease the confusion.
Property management companies: Overseeing the management of buildings on behalf of owners and developers, PMCs have a lot to handle… finding partners who can shoulder some of the workload and help keep them compliant can really take the weight off.
‘Caring’ settings
Whilst it is vitally important to ensure that people’s living accommodation is properly protected, we also have a real passion to ensure that settings such as schools, nurseries, care homes and assisted living environments are fully aware of their requirements, and well supported.
Of course, in all of these environments, fire safety is under strict regulation, with busy staff members relying on through and well-adhered to processes to ensure fire doors could perform properly, should thy need to.
However, it in these busy, heavy-footfall settings that the performance of doors can be compromised. A propped open fire door – to make way for a busy flow of children moving through a corridor, or for easier wheelchair access, for example – will not protect against fire, heat or smoke ingress.
Corporate and commercial connections
From co-working spaces to high-rise headquarters, fire safety in commercial premises is a legal requirement under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Office managers don’t always know if their fire doors are compliant, but building a relationship with a trusted partner can help then be reassured that whilst it may be out of their knowledge zone, it’s firmly in ours.
And that’s just the start…
Anywhere people gather, rest or work, chances are there’s a fire door involved.
These organisations:
- Are legally required to keep fire doors compliant
- Don’t have in-house experts
- Are keen to build lasting relationships with reliable professionals
- Rely on their Fire Door partner to keep them compliant (a valuable asset)
If you’re a carpenter with solid skills, good attention to detail, a desire to run your own business and an eye for building relationships, there are some great opportunities knocking on a (fire) door.
The All About Fire Doors franchise model, offers you the chance to:
- Receive full training in fire door compliance
- Be fully supported with ongoing tech, admin, and marketing help
- Build your fire door business with the backing of a trusted brand
- Meet the legislative demands of dozens of sectors
There’s never been a better time to specialise in fire door safety.
And there’s never been a better way to do it than with All About Fire Doors.