Fire Door Installation
This section covers professional fire door installation techniques, best practice guidance and practical advice for fitting compliant timber fire doors. Explore articles on door frames, hinges, hardware, gap tolerances, installation methods and common fitting mistakes to help achieve safe, reliable and long-lasting fire door performance.
Part 14 — Final Fire Door Installation Checks
By this stage, most of the work has been done. The frame is in. The door is hung and aligned.
Part 12 — Measuring & Setting Fire Door Gaps
By this stage, the door should already be hung and aligned properly in the frame. This isn’t the point where
Part 11 — Installing a Fire Door Closer
A fire door closer looks like a fairly simple bit of ironmongery. You screw the closer to the door, fit
Part 13 — Installing Intumescent & Smoke Seals
By this stage, the door should already be hung, aligned, fitted with its ironmongery and checked for the correct gaps.
Part 10 — Installing Fire Door Locks & Latches
Fitting a lock or latch into a fire door is one of those jobs where the quality of the finished
Part 9 — Installing Fire Door Hinges
Installing hinges is something that probably should have appeared earlier in this series. The reason I’ve left it until now
Part 6— Preparing the Fire Door Leaf
Once the frame has been prepared, packed and fixed, the next stage is preparing the fire door leaf. This is
