Fire door services
Fire door maintenance and replacement
Fire doors play a crucial role in ensuring building safety, providing essential barriers that help prevent the spread of smoke and flames in the event of a fire. At MEC Fire, our comprehensive fire door maintenance and replacement services are designed to keep these vital protections in optimal condition, ensuring they function effectively when needed most. With a commitment to compliance and quality, we help businesses stay safe and meet regulatory standards through expert inspections, repairs, and tailored solutions.
Our services cover all aspects of fire door care, including regular maintenance and repairs to address wear and tear, full replacements for doors that no longer meet safety standards, and thorough fire door surveys that assess the condition and compliance of existing installations. With MEC Fire, you can trust that every fire door in your building will meet stringent safety requirements, providing dependable protection for your property and occupants.
Fire door maintenance & repair
Fire door replacements
Fire door surveys
A fire door is a type of door that has been built to withstand direct exposure to fire for an extended period without allowing the fire to move to the other side of the door. Fire doors are an essential facet of a building’s passive fire protection system. They are designed to resist the spread of fire for a period, normally a minimum of 30 minutes, allowing time for people to leave the building via an escape route if other routes are compromised in the event of a fire.
Because of their importance in protecting lives, it is imperative that fire doors receive regular inspections. Frequency is likely to depend on many factors, including the age and condition of the door and its frequency of use. A fire door protecting a staircase will be used far more frequently than one fitted to a boiler room for example. Fire doors should always be fitted correctly by a competent installer as they are carefully engineered fire safety devices. Similarly, they should be inspected and maintained by competent persons.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (FSO) (and similar legislation in Scotland and Northern Ireland), building owners, operators, and occupiers – including landlords in residential premises – have a responsibility to ensure their properties and tenants are safe. This includes ensuring that fire doors are fit for purpose and properly maintained. The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022, which came into force on 23rd January 2023, has made it a legal requirement for responsible persons for all multi-occupied residential buildings in England with storeys over 11 metres in height to undertake quarterly checks on all fire doors within the premises and annual inspections on flat entrance doors.
Fire door maintenance / replacement
When an inspection report has been undertaken on existing fire doors, it may have been identified that remedial works need to be completed, to make the door compliant. Common works identified are:
On completion of a Fire Door survey, a full digital report to Trada Q-Mark standards will be supplied within a week of the survey being completed. This will give an indication of the standard of each fire door & any works required to bring the fire door integrity back to the specified fire rating. In the event the door cannot be brought to standard, a replacement will be recommended.
How we can help
Established 25 years ago we have worked across a variety of industries with particular focus on the hotel and leisure industries. These are customer facing sectors and therefore completion of the projects on time and in a way that causes minimal disruption to the client and their customers is fundamental to the way we operate.
We deliver projects on time, to budget and to a high standard of satisfaction to our clients. The development and growth of MEC Fire Services has been achieved through business from our satisfied customers and through referrals from both the client and the consultants we work with.
From our head office & workshops situated in Studley, Warwickshire we co-ordinate tradespeople and surveyors at various sites across the UK.