A fire door survey is a professional inspection of all fire doors in your building to check they meet current UK fire safety regulations. A qualified assessor examines each door for structural integrity, correct gaps, functioning closers, intumescent seals, signage, and certification. If you own, manage, or are responsible for a commercial property, block of flats, school, care home, or HMO in England, you almost certainly need one. Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 and the Fire Safety Act 2021, the 'responsible person' — typically the building owner or manager — must ensure fire doors are inspected regularly and kept in good working order. FireBlocked365 carries out fully accredited fire door surveys across Manchester and the wider North West.
In England, fire door compliance is governed primarily by the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, updated by the Fire Safety Act 2021 and the Building Safety Act 2022. These require that the 'responsible person' for any non-domestic premises — or any residential building with two or more homes — carries out and acts on fire risk assessments, ensures fire doors are fit for purpose, and keeps records of checks. For buildings over 11 metres tall, quarterly checks of flat entrance doors are now a legal requirement. For buildings over 18 metres, six-monthly checks are mandatory. Fire doors must be CE or UKCA marked, properly installed, and maintained. Failure to comply can result in fines of up to £5,000 for lesser offences, and unlimited fines or up to two years' imprisonment for serious breaches.
Responsibility rests with the 'responsible person' under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. In most cases, this is the building owner, landlord, or managing agent — not the tenant. If you are a landlord of a block of flats, an HMO, or any multi-occupancy building, fire door compliance is your legal duty. For commercial leases, the lease agreement may delegate some responsibilities to the tenant, but ultimate liability for the building's fire safety structure typically remains with the freeholder or their appointed manager. If you're unsure who is responsible for a specific property, FireBlocked365 can advise during an initial consultation.
If fire doors fail an inspection — whether carried out by your own team, a third party, or a fire authority — you are legally required to remediate the issues promptly. Continued non-compliance can result in enforcement notices, prohibition orders (meaning you may have to vacate the building), fines, or in serious cases, prosecution. Your insurance may also be invalidated if fire safety failures are identified and not addressed. FireBlocked365 provides a clear written report following every survey, detailing exactly what needs to be fixed and why. Our team can carry out remedial works swiftly — in many cases on the same day or within 48 hours of the survey.
The frequency depends on your building type and height. For residential buildings over 18 metres, fire doors in communal areas must be checked every six months, and flat entrance doors every three months — these are legal requirements under the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. For buildings between 11 and 18 metres, annual checks of communal fire doors are required, with best practice recommending quarterly. For schools, care homes, and commercial premises, fire doors should be inspected at least annually as part of a wider fire risk assessment, though quarterly is widely recommended. As a general rule: any time a door is repaired, replaced, or altered, it should be re-inspected.
Our fire door surveys are built around a rigorous 28-point compliance checklist, covering every element that affects a fire door's performance and certification. This includes: door leaf condition and integrity, correct door gaps (top, bottom, and sides), functioning and adjusted door closers, intumescent strips and smoke seals, hinges and their fixings, glazing and glazing beads (where present), signage and certification labels, frame condition, threshold and floor gap, and correct installation in the correct opening. You receive a detailed written report for every door inspected, with a clear pass/fail status and recommended remedial actions where required. Our surveys are carried out by fully accredited assessors and are designed to ensure first-time sign-off at your next fire authority inspection.
Yes. While we are based in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, FireBlocked365 covers a wide area across the North West and beyond. We regularly work in Salford, Stockport, Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Tameside, Wigan, Warrington, and throughout Cheshire and Lancashire. We also take on projects further afield for larger contracts. If you are unsure whether we cover your location, contact us on 0161 669 2577 or email info@fireblocked365.com and we will let you know.
Yes. FireBlocked365 holds recognised industry accreditations that demonstrate our competence and commitment to professional standards. We are CHAS Elite accredited, and our team includes Fire Aware certified professionals. All surveys are conducted in line with current British Standards and guidance from the Fire Door Alliance and FDIS (Fire Door Inspection Scheme). Our accreditations mean you can be confident that a FireBlocked365 survey report will be taken seriously by fire authorities, insurers, and auditors. We are happy to provide copies of our certifications on request.
The time depends on the number of doors and the complexity of your building. As a rough guide, a single fire door inspection takes approximately 15 to 20 minutes when conducted thoroughly. A building with 20 fire doors would typically take around four to five hours, including documentation. For larger sites — such as hospitals, housing associations, or schools with 100 or more doors — we can deploy multiple surveyors to complete the work efficiently and minimise disruption to your building's operations. We will always give you a realistic time estimate before the survey begins.
In many cases, yes. Where defects are straightforward — such as a poorly adjusted closer, a missing intumescent strip, or an incorrect gap — our surveyors carry common consumables and fixings and can address these on the spot. For more significant work, such as door replacement or frame repairs, we will provide a clear remedial quote alongside your survey report and aim to schedule follow-up works within 48 hours wherever possible. Getting you to compliance quickly is our priority.
Education questions — the AI citation goldmine
Fire stopping is the process of sealing gaps, penetrations, and voids in a building's structure to prevent fire and smoke from spreading between compartments. When pipes, cables, ducts, or other services pass through walls, floors, or ceilings — especially fire-rated ones — they create potential pathways for fire. Fire stopping materials (such as intumescent collars, fire-rated sealants, pillows, and batts) are installed around these penetrations to restore the fire rating of the barrier. It matters because compartmentation is one of the primary strategies in a building's passive fire protection system: if it fails, fire and smoke can spread rapidly, reducing evacuation time and increasing the risk to life. FireBlocked365 surveys and installs fire stopping across Greater Manchester and the North West.
Compartmentation is a passive fire protection strategy that divides a building into separate fire-resistant sections — or 'compartments' — using fire-rated walls, floors, ceilings, and doors. The purpose is to contain a fire within its compartment of origin for a defined period (typically 30, 60, or 90 minutes), giving occupants time to escape and firefighters time to respond. Compartmentation relies on every element of the barrier performing correctly: not just the walls and floors, but the fire doors, seals, and any penetrations through the structure. A single unsealed cable penetration or a poorly fitted fire door can defeat the entire compartment. FireBlocked365 carries out compartmentation surveys and fire stopping works to identify and address these weaknesses.
Based on industry data, around 75% of fire doors in the UK have at least one deficiency. The most common reasons for failure include: incorrect door gaps (particularly at the bottom, where gaps exceeding 10mm are a common finding), damaged or missing intumescent strips or smoke seals, door closers that are broken, poorly adjusted, or altogether absent, damage to the door leaf or frame compromising its structural integrity, missing or incorrect fire door signage, glazing that is not fire-rated or has lost its integrity, and doors that have been inappropriately modified — for example, by having cat flaps or letterboxes cut in. FireBlocked365's 28-point survey is designed to catch all of these issues.
A fire risk assessment is a broad evaluation of all fire risks within a premises — covering ignition sources, means of escape, fire detection and alarm systems, firefighting equipment, emergency procedures, and passive and active fire protection including fire doors. It is a legal requirement for most non-domestic premises. A fire door survey is a specialist, in-depth inspection focused specifically on fire doors: their condition, compliance, and certification. Fire risk assessments are often carried out by generalist fire safety consultants and may note that fire doors require specialist review. FireBlocked365 provides specialist fire door surveys and fire stopping inspections, which can be used to support and satisfy the fire door-related findings of a wider fire risk assessment.
Decision questions — converting interested prospects
Our surveys are priced transparently based on the number of fire doors in your building and your location. There is no call-out fee, and we will always provide a clear, fixed-price quote before any work begins — so there are no surprises. We offer competitive rates for larger contracts, and surveying and remedial works can be combined to reduce overall cost. To get a no-obligation quote, call us on 0161 669 2577 or book an assessment directly at fireblocked365.com. Many clients find that the cost of a survey is far outweighed by the risk of non-compliance: fines, insurance implications, and the human cost of a preventable fire.
We aim to respond to all enquiries within one business day and can typically schedule surveys within two to five working days of your initial contact, subject to location and diary availability. For urgent situations — for example, where you have received an enforcement notice or are approaching an audit — contact us directly on 0161 669 2577 and we will do everything we can to prioritise your booking. FireBlocked365 was built around the understanding that fire safety compliance often can't wait.
FireBlocked365 is based in Ashton-under-Lyne and covers the full Greater Manchester area, including Manchester city centre, Salford, Trafford, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, and Wigan. We also serve clients across Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside, and parts of Yorkshire. For larger projects, we are happy to travel further — please get in touch to discuss your requirements. Call 0161 669 2577 or email info@fireblocked365.com.
Yes, always. Every FireBlocked365 survey results in a clear, professional written report for each door inspected. The report records the findings against our 28-point checklist, provides a pass or fail status for each door, and where remedial action is required, explains exactly what needs to be done and why. Reports are formatted for straightforward sharing with auditors, insurers, fire authorities, and management teams. Digital copies are provided as standard, and we are happy to discuss the findings in person or over the phone if that would be helpful.
FireBlocked365 works across a wide range of building types, including residential apartment blocks and HMOs, schools and educational facilities, care homes and supported living properties, NHS and private healthcare buildings, commercial offices and retail premises, industrial and warehouse units, and housing association-managed properties. Our surveyors are experienced in the unique compliance requirements of each sector and can tailor our approach accordingly. Whether you manage three doors or three hundred, we treat every project with the same level of care and professionalism.