Fire door duties in a dense, flat city
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 quarterly checks on communal doors and annual checks on flat entrance doors in buildings over 11 metres. Portsmouth's density means an unusually large share of flatted and converted residential stock carrying these ongoing 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. Older converted flats — common across the city — often have non-standard openings and doors that predate current standards, so a survey precedes any certifiable fix.
Fire doors for Portsmouth's flats and residential blocks
Housing and residential leads our fire door work in Portsmouth. Managing agents and building owners across Southsea, Fratton and the city centre carry duties on communal and flat entrance doors, and with this stock fully occupied, works have to keep residents in place and escape routes usable throughout.
We support owners with survey, remedial and full-replacement programmes, working block by block and providing the certification and records that keep a building inspection-ready. Every installer holds a CSCS card with City & Guilds or NVQ training, and our CHAS and Constructionline accreditations are in place for pre-qualification.
Hospitals, workplaces and the waterfront
Healthcare
The Queen Alexandra Hospital estate needs healthcare compartmentation maintained in live clinical areas, phased with infection control observed.
Commercial and defence
The Lakeside North Harbour office campus and the historic naval dockyard bring commercial and defence premises with their own compliance and access requirements.
Hotels and leisure
The seafront hotel and leisure stock needs compartmentation maintained with minimal closure.
Accredited and geared for occupied buildings
Every instruction opens with an inspection and an itemised quote separating doors that need replacing from those a repair will restore. Our tradespeople hold CSCS cards and train to City & Guilds or NVQ level, and the business is CHAS and Constructionline accredited with ISO 9001 and ISO 45001 certification.
Fire door work often forms part of a wider refurbishment, and where a Portsmouth project also needs redecoration, we can run it alongside our painting and decorating team in Portsmouth on one programme and with a single point of contact.
