What communal fire doors in Reigate should include
Our communal fire doors service in Reigate is simple: a survey, a fixed quote, certified products and an installation finished to the manufacturer's evidence.
Around Reigate, care homes, light industrial buildings and small offices all depend on fire doors that close, latch and seal. We survey each opening and tell you plainly which doors need work and which don't.
Communal corridors and stairs in Reigate buildings take the heaviest use, so we choose finishes and hardware that keep working between checks. The evidence pack for each communal door in Reigate is set out to support whatever checking regime your fire risk assessment sets.
What makes communal doors different?
Communal doors take far more traffic than flat entrance doors. They are pushed with trolleys, propped open and slammed. Many are pairs, glazed, or fitted with hold-open devices. That combination is why communal doors so often fail inspections for gaps, worn seals, damaged closers and doors that no longer latch.
In England, communal fire doors in residential buildings above 11 metres must be checked at least every three months under regulation 10. A sound installation makes passing those checks routine.
What you get:
- Certified single, double or leaf-and-a-half doorsets
- Closers, coordinators and hold-opens as required
- Tested vision panels and durable finishes
- Survey of every communal opening and its use
Fire door law for Reigate properties
In Reigate, as elsewhere in England, the starting point is the Fire Safety Order 2005: whoever controls a workplace or the shared parts of a residential block must make sure its fire doors work. When doors are replaced, the Building Regulations and Approved Document B set the standard the new work has to meet.
Blocks above 11 metres have a specific routine under regulation 10 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022: quarterly checks of communal fire doors and annual best-endeavours checks of flat front doors. If your Reigate building is a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022, we confirm the approval route with the Principal Accountable Person before any work is ordered.
Which buildings in Reigate need communal fire doors?
Typical settings for communal fire doors include sheltered and supported housing, student accommodation and hotels. In Reigate, as anywhere, the duty holder varies: a responsible person for a workplace, a landlord or managing agent for a block or HMO, or a homeowner after building work. We adjust access, timing and paperwork to suit whoever commissions the work.
How a Reigate job runs
- Survey communal doors and plan a phased sequence
- Agree working hours and resident notices with the client
- Order doorsets to size with matching hardware
- Replace doors one route section at a time
- Commission closers and hold-opens with the alarm contractor
- Hand over evidence for your fire safety records
Guide prices in Reigate
Guide pricing for communal fire doors: from around £800 for a single communal doorset to £3,200 for a glazed pair, ex VAT. Volume work across several doors in one Reigate building usually brings the per-door cost down. Your written quote is fixed once we have surveyed.
Around Reigate
Reigate is about 26.2 km from Woking, and we cover both, along with nearby Redhill and Horley. Send us your postcode and we'll confirm survey dates.
Questions from Reigate
Do you work in Reigate?
Yes, we take on communal fire doors in Reigate and the surrounding area, including Redhill and Horley. Send your postcode and a few details and we'll come back with survey dates.
Can you work from an existing inspection report for my Reigate building?
Yes. Send it over and we can often price straight from it, then confirm on site. We report back against the same door references so you can close actions off.
Do communal doors need vision panels?
Not always, but they are common on cross-corridor and lobby doors so people can see who is coming the other way. Any glazing has to be fire-rated and fitted in a tested system.
Can communal fire doors be held open?
Only with a proper hold-open device that releases the door when the fire alarm operates. Wedges and hooks are not acceptable. Electromagnetic holders or free-swing closers are the usual solutions.