Fire Door Installation

Part 18 — Fire Door Installation Problems & Common Mistakes

By this stage, most of the work has been done. The frame is in. The door is hung and aligned.

By this stage, the door should already be hung and aligned properly in the frame. This isn’t the point where

A fire door closer looks like a fairly simple bit of ironmongery. You screw the closer to the door, fit

By this stage, the door should already be hung, aligned, fitted with its ironmongery and checked for the correct gaps.

Fitting a lock or latch into a fire door is one of those jobs where the quality of the finished

Installing hinges is something that probably should have appeared earlier in this series. The reason I’ve left it until now

Once the frame has been prepared, packed and fixed, the next stage is preparing the fire door leaf. This is