Intumescent strips and smoke seals in Staffordshire

Intumescent strips and smoke seals in Staffordshire: what's involved

Our intumescent strips and smoke seals service runs throughout Staffordshire. Main towns include Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Burton upon Trent, and we cover the smaller places in between.

Painted and missing seals are among the most common fire door defects nationally; in Staffordshire we replace them with the type and size the certification specifies. We check that each door in your Staffordshire building closes and latches against its new seals before signing it off.

Fire door work in Staffordshire spans housing providers with large estates, individual landlords, businesses and homeowners. We price every job from a survey, never from a list price alone, because the condition of the frames and the hardware makes a real difference.

Getting the specification right

The door's certification states the type, size and position of strips and seals: in the frame or the leaf edge, single or double, and whether a combined intumescent and smoke seal is used. Replacements must match. Swapping in a generic strip from a hardware shop can undermine the door's performance.

Rules and responsibilities in Staffordshire

In Staffordshire, 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 Staffordshire 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.

Our process in Staffordshire

1. Identify door certification and seal specification
2. Remove failed seals and clean the grooves
3. Fit new strips and seals to the specified positions
4. Fit missing pads and lock linings
5. Check the door closes and latches against the new seals
6. Record the products fitted

Budgeting for intumescent strips and smoke seals in Staffordshire

Guide pricing for intumescent strips and smoke seals: £45–£110 per door to supply and fit strips and seals, ex VAT. Volume work across several doors in one Staffordshire building usually brings the per-door cost down. Your written quote is fixed once we have surveyed.

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