Fire door hold-open devices in Greenwich: what's involved
For property owners, landlords and managing agents in Greenwich, we offer fire door hold-open devices with one team for the survey, the product and the installation.
Around Greenwich, hotels, shared houses and converted flats 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.
Where doors in Greenwich care homes, schools or offices are being wedged open, a hold-open device is the safe fix. Free-swing closers suit Greenwich settings where residents or pupils find doors hard to open.
Why doors get wedged
Busy corridors, care homes and schools have doors that people need open all day. If there is no safe way to hold them, they get wedged, which defeats the door completely. A hold-open device or free-swing closer solves the problem properly.
What you get:
- Release testing with the alarm
- Assessment of door use and alarm system
- Hold-open and free-swing closers
- Record of devices and test results
The regulations behind fire doors in Greenwich
In Greenwich, 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. In London, the London Fire Brigade is the enforcing authority for fire safety law.
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 Greenwich 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.
Who needs fire door hold-open devices in Greenwich?
From offices to care homes, the requirement for fire door hold-open devices in Greenwich comes from the fire strategy or risk assessment for the building. We work from that document, or help you interpret your inspection report, before quoting.
How a Greenwich job runs
- Survey the doors and the fire alarm arrangement
- Choose device type for each door
- Agree interface work with the alarm contractor
- Fit and commission the devices
- Test release on alarm activation
- Record results and hand over
What does fire door hold-open devices cost in Greenwich?
Guide pricing for fire door hold-open devices: £180–£450 per door for the device, excluding fire alarm interface work, ex VAT. Volume work across several doors in one Greenwich building usually brings the per-door cost down. Your written quote is fixed once we have surveyed.
Greenwich and neighbouring towns
Nearby towns we cover include Blackheath, Canary Wharf and Catford. Distance from Greenwich does not change our guide prices, and the survey and quote are free.
Questions from Greenwich
Do you cover SE10 and nearby postcodes?
Yes. We cover Greenwich including SE10, and nearby towns such as Blackheath and Canary Wharf. The survey and written quote are free.
How quickly can you survey in Greenwich?
It depends on the number of doors and access, but we offer survey dates as soon as we reply to your enquiry. If an inspection has found urgent safety issues, tell us and we'll prioritise.
Is it legal to wedge open a fire door?
Wedging a fire door open defeats its purpose and is likely to breach the duties under fire safety law. A hold-open device that releases on alarm is the safe alternative.
Who tests hold-open devices?
They should be tested with the fire alarm as part of the routine testing arrangements. We test them at installation and record the results.