Are you confident your fire doors are compliant?

Fire doors play a key part in preventing the spread of smoke and fire. However, they can only do this if they’re compliant.

It’s important to get your fire doors checked and maintained regularly by a professional inspector. The British Woodworking Federation suggests doors should be checked every 6 months.

Fireco provides a comprehensive third-party accredited fire door inspection service complete with digital reporting.

What’s included?

A member of our team will visit your site to perform a full inspection of the fire doors specified. A fire door inspection involves checking every element of your doorset.

Will I receive a report?

Once the inspection is complete you’ll receive a full report. Our DorTrak software allows you to drill down into the details of a specific doorset, or use the summary view to see multiple doorsets on one page.

Who will be my inspector?

Your fire doors will be inspected by Fireco engineers or inspection partners. All of our engineers and inspection partners have recognised third-party accreditation.

Fire door inspections made digital

Our tailor-made inspection software, DorTrak, will provide you with a live view of your inspection as it’s happening.

Once the inspection is complete, DorTrak will provide you with a clear, easy-to-read report. You’ll quickly see the amount of work that needs to be carried out, and you can print or export your report if needed. If a doorset needs replacing, you can use our supply and install service.

• Drill down into the details of the doorset
• Easy-to-read reports with images and floor plans
• Digital record contributes to your Golden Thread
• Cost-effective compared to competitors
   

What makes Fireco’s fire door inspection service different from competitors?
 
Our fire door inspection service is carried out using our own tailor-made app, DorTrak.

We’ve seen a number of report formats that don’t include key information such as door certification and ratings, and detailed reviews on door gaps, etc. We also often see overly complicated reports that can make understanding and processing the data quite difficult for end users. Ideally, the information contained can be passed on to an accredited company to help provide options to improve compliance.

We sat down and spoke with a number of door inspectors to try and come up with a system that made inspecting doors more granular; one that supplied data to the end user in a format that was clear, comprehensive, and useful for third parties to offer remedial quotes.

With the push towards a more digital world for fire safety, we’re using a portal that we can update with the annual reports.

How did DorTrak come about?

We were keen to explore how customers were using the data from fire door reports. Having spoken to lots of end users, and with the update to the regulations in January, it was clear that the report needed to function as a tool to help clients fix doors.

We took some time to understand the most common issues with doors and decided to design our own app that allowed better data inputs and more photos of the issues with doors.

Our report format is very detailed and builds up a digital pass/fail portfolio for all of the components of the door: the doorset itself, any hardware, and the closing action. DorTrak provides easy-to-read reports with a detailed view option to review individual doors as well as a summary view that collates any highlighted issues with all of the doors on a particular site.

The app does a lot of the work post-inspection by collating information and providing it in a simple way for the customer to send to a third party for pricing for remedial work or replacements.

Also, we use RFID tags on the doors to help customers build a door location map within the app, helping tie in with Regulation 38 and a digital record for fire safety.

What types of customers is Fireco receiving orders from?

We started with small local orders for end users; residential front entrance doorsets. This allowed us to build our processes around goods in and quality checks while we built up our learning.

We’re now working with large commercial sites, including our key networks in healthcare and education. This includes assisting certain clients on multi-year installation projects and providing them with high-priority doors in some fantastic locations. Having an excellent network of installers gives us great scope to support clients all over the country for our whole range of fire door services.

We recently completed a project for a local authority where they simply could not find another local installer that had a compliant solution for what was an unusual doorset. So we worked with our partner PDS to come up with a tested solution that solved this resident’s two year problem!