A fire door survey is a key part of any passive fire protection strategy. As per the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, a fire door survey ensures that your doors will function as they should in the event of an emergency. This type of inspection also equips you with a report detailing the information you need to address any problems through subsequent remedial work, fire door maintenance, or total replacement.

Despite the high importance of a fire door survey and the insights revealed by this process, the quality of inspection can vary significantly between providers. There are lots of promises and accreditations to get your head around, but understanding who to turn to is a decision that you/the Responsible Person needs to get right to ensure you can act promptly and effectively to the results of the fire door survey. 

At WGP Maintenance, we take pride in our approach to fire door surveys and have cemented ourselves as a trusted choice for those seeking a detailed fire door inspection. Here’s why:

1. Fully Comprehensive Surveys

Many fire door survey providers will carry out a surface-level inspection, delivering a compliance-only report. This type of survey is simply not enough to ensure you are meeting the relevant requirements, as the report will lack the practical detail needed to carry out any necessary and often urgent remedial works.

However, a fire door survey from WGP Maintenance is fully comprehensive, taking into account not only each door’s current condition and level of compliance, but also how effectively it functions within your building’s compartments. By conducting our inspections with this level of detail, we can seamlessly recommend the most effective way to bring your fire doors up to the necessary standards.

2. Remedial Work & Maintenance Costs Specified

We often find ourselves in situations where a Responsible Person has come to us with a fire door survey from another company, only to find that the level of detail is not sufficient to properly scope and cost the repairs necessary. This means that, in order to provide accurate costs for remediation and the more important certification following any repairs, we have to re-survey the fire doors, leading to wasted time, unnecessary costs, and frustrations that could have been avoided. 

By choosing WGP Maintenance for your fire door survey, you can be certain that things are right the first time. The comprehensive nature of our reports means that we can provide the correct level of detail from the get-go, including a door-by-door breakdown of findings, a filterable matrix of every repair needed, and the associated remediation costs against each door. This level of detail makes it much easier to prioritise repairs, budget correctly, and bring your doors up to standards as quickly as possible. 

3. BM Trada Certified Fire Door Maintenance

Not only do many fire door survey providers fail to provide the right level of detail, but they also lack the expertise to actually carry out the repairs required and ultimately this will impact on their ability to advise on the repair needed with accuracy. 

However, the WGP team is fully qualified to carry out the initial works and ongoing maintenance identified during the fire door survey. In fact, we are BM Trada Q-Mark certified, and have been surveying and remediating fire doors to this standard for over a decade, further highlighting our expertise and the quality of the work we deliver. This should give you the necessary peace of mind when it comes to the safety of your building and its capabilities if a fire did break out.

4. Experience Across Specialist Property Types

Different property types bring different challenges, and there are some instances where the law demands specific fire door provisions in specific types of buildings. Having responsibility for fire safety in these types of premises can feel particularly daunting, and this amplifies the importance of working with a fire door inspector who knows what they are doing.

Our experience spans a huge range of property types, and we have provided comprehensive fire door surveys for a complete range of commercial properties and premises across the entire South West region. Just some of the types of properties we work with regularly include hotels, hospitals and healthcare facilities, offices, care homes and retirement villages, holiday parks, hospitality businesses and student accommodation. This vast experience means we understand how to carry out fire door surveys and subsequent works that meet unique requirements and can work thoroughly with minimal disruption in these spaces. 

5. Clear Communication & Lasting Relationships

While we can provide fire door surveys on a one-off basis, many of the properties and premises we inspect are ones we have lasting relationships with. Because we can offer a complete range of fire door services, our clients rarely have the need to go elsewhere and call on us year after year to ensure their doors are maintained as compliant. 

We’ve also fine-tuned our communication processes and can guide you through every step of the fire door survey, whether that’s answering questions about the contents of your report or arranging suitable next steps. 

If our seamless and comprehensive fire door survey sounds like something your building could benefit from, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us to arrange your inspection with a member of our team.