Contrary to what some might believe there is a difference between fire doors and fire exit doors.
Fire exit door wedged open.
While our investigations may suggest a particular fire door might not perform to the required standard all doors can.
So any fire rated door assembly may not be wedged open.
Fire doors are inside buildings residential and commercial and are internal doors that need to be kept closed in order to stop the spread of fire between different areas of a building.
Fire door standards and legislative requirements.
Other alterations such as wedging fire doors open to reduce the need to touch door handles or sealing fire doors in order to prevent air movement between sections of a building could affect fire safety measures to provide protection from fire and access to means of escape.
Wedging or propping open a fire door can prove devastating as it allows fire to spread unchecked putting lives and buildings at risk.
But it s not as simple as saying don t wedge that door.
And to finally address fire rated door assemblies section 8 3 3 1 requires all doors required to have a fire protection rating to comply with nfpa 80 which requires self closing devices on the doors.
But there are some doors that you could.
We want fire doors open as they are a nuisance in everyday life.
It was not only for fire doors being wedged open.
That applies to nearly all doors in a hospital.
Fire doors work as part of a layered fire protection system within a building.
However there were a multitude of offences and the inspection was after a fire brigade response top a small fire that had been put out.
But i have seen in fire ra s and also heard the following terms.
Fire doors have to be kept close at all times unless certified fire door retainers are installed not just a door wedge which hold the fire door open until a fire alarm is set off.
Fire doors being wedged open was one of the counts apparently in tesco s colney hatch store in barnet on 14 october 2007.
The link provided it states the inspection also revealed escape routes that were obstructed fire exit doors wedged open and combustible items obstructing fire doors.
Anything that could prevent the door from closing and latching properly during an emergency condition such as propping the door open with objects taping the latch using wood wedges or kick down door stops or overriding the closing device is a violation of the standards.
