Fire doors are an essential part of the fabric of a building and have two important functions in the event of a fire.
Fine for propping open fire door.
150 plus cost to repair or consider further referral.
We want fire doors open as they are a nuisance in everyday life.
75 plus cost to replace.
The quote that it actually possible to be prosecuted for wedging open propping open a fire door is interesting.
Deliberately propping a fire door open.
That applies to nearly all doors in a hospital.
So any fire rated door assembly may not be wedged open.
75 plus cost to replace.
Damaging or removing safety signs.
Wedging or propping open a fire door can prove devastating as it allows fire to spread unchecked putting lives and buildings at risk.
This short post seeks to explain why they shouldn t be propped open whilst it also covers a range of other frequently asked questions on the subject.
Deliberate damage to a fire door.
The problem is that the life safety code requires existing corridor partitions to be fire rated for 1 2 hour the doors you describe sound an awful lot like they would be considered corridor doors and doors required to be fire rated have to have self or automatic closing devices which means propping them open is on the excluded list.
Despite this 64 of premises visited by the fire service have fire doors wedged open.
Despite this 64 of premises visited by the fire service have fire doors wedged open.
Larger kick plates act as a heat sink.
Wedging open doors can and has caused a chimney effect which causes fire to spread rapidly destroying entire buildings.
Fire doors form an integral part of the fire strategy for shared or multi storey accommodations.
Don t install metal kick plates higher than 16 inches from the bottom of the 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.
I assumed that this was correct but i have just searched the fire order and cannot find a specific reference to fire doors emergency exit doors yes but not a fire door.
Misuse of fire equipment.
Blocking an exit route.
A common misdemeanour is to prop open a fire door sometimes with a fire extinguisher a double transgression.
Wedging or propping open a fire door can prove devastating as it allows fire to spread unchecked putting lives and buildings at risk.
Despite this they re still regularly found propped open preventing them from working as they should.
Misuse of fire equipment.
Aside from possibly rendering the fire door inoperable due to physical damage propping open fire doors will allow products of combustion to migrate into other areas and contribute to the spread and severity of the fire.
