Fire doors across a cathedral city's mixed estate
Fire door responsibility rests with the responsible person under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, covering non-domestic premises and communal residential areas, with the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 adding scheduled checks in buildings over 11 metres. Exeter's stock spans a historic, listed cathedral core, the office and industrial areas at Sowton and Marsh Barton, and a substantial university and hospital estate, a broad range of buildings and duties.
A rating belongs to the whole doorset. We survey and fit intumescent strips and smoke seals, certified hinges and closers, correct perimeter gaps and compatible glazing, because an FD30 or FD60 door only performs when every component is certified and correctly installed. In the listed city-centre stock, upgrading existing doors sympathetically is often the right route where a survey shows it will meet the standard.
Fire doors for the University of Exeter
Education leads our fire door work in Exeter, across a university estate that combines teaching buildings with substantial student accommodation. These are demanding environments: heavy daily use, doors propped for circulation, and works that must fit around teaching, exams and residential life.
We schedule surveys and installations into vacations and out-of-hours windows, and can time replacement in halls of residence around the changeover between intakes. Every installer holds a CSCS card with City & Guilds or NVQ training, and our CHAS and Constructionline accreditations are in place for estates pre-qualification.
Hospitals, workplaces and trade estates
Healthcare
The RD&E hospital estate needs healthcare compartmentation maintained in live clinical areas, phased with infection control observed.
Commercial and industrial
Sowton, Exeter Business Park and the Marsh Barton trade estate bring commercial and industrial premises needing fire door programmes that keep operations running.
Hotels and leisure
The city's hotel and leisure stock needs compartmentation maintained with minimal closure.
