Fire door hold-open devices for Norfolk buildings
We provide fire door hold-open devices across Norfolk, covering 4 towns and 45 postcode districts, including Norwich, Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn.
Where doors in Norfolk care homes, schools or offices are being wedged open, a hold-open device is the safe fix. We coordinate with your fire alarm contractor in Norfolk so every hold-open releases when it should.
Wherever your building is in Norfolk, the fire safety duties come from national rules, and our installation standard is the same.
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 the rules say for Norfolk
In Norfolk, 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 Norfolk 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.
How a Norfolk 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 Norfolk?
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 Norfolk building usually brings the per-door cost down. Your written quote is fixed once we have surveyed.
Fire door hold-open devices questions
Do you provide fire door hold-open devices across Norfolk?
Yes. We cover all of Norfolk, including Norwich and Great Yarmouth. Surveys and written quotes are free.
What is the difference between a hold-open and a free-swing closer?
A hold-open keeps the door at a fixed open position. A free-swing closer lets the door move freely, as if no closer were fitted, until the alarm sounds.
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.