All fire doors should meet the essential fire safety standards.
Sliding door fire regulations.
Because fire doors are functional items and are necessary in all buildings and structures they are required to meet a number of different regulations such as sound accessibility ventilation thermal efficiency and safety glazing as well as fire safety.
Below is a list giving general view as to when safety glazing is required.
This means it should provide fire resistance of not less than 30 minutes and be resistant to the passage of smoke at room temperature conditions.
This means that in 30 minutes the door s temperature on the non fire side can t increase more than 250 450 degrees.
For american metal door a hollow metal fire door has a temperature rise rating of 250 degrees for 30 minutes where a tube frame fire door has a rating of 450 degrees for 30 minutes.
Regardless of the occupant load there shall be a floor or landing on each side of a door.
You must use three hinges these hinges must be class 13 standard if you are renewing the door due to fire planning or hmo regulations please take their advice as they will sometimes ask you to place intumescent paper behind the actual hinge leaf.
F change in floor level at doors.
Since a fire door is a functional item that is a necessity in all buildings it has to meet several specified regulations.
Exits must be separated by fire resistant materials that is one hour fire resistance rating if the exit connects three or fewer stories and two hour fire resistance rating if the exit connects more than three floors.
These include accessibility sound ventilation fire safety and safety glazing.
The floor or landing shall be no more than 1 inch lower than the threshold of the doorway.
Under the current building regulations all new fire doors should be to fd30s standard.
Where a door opens over a landing the landing shall be at least as wide as the door and at least 5 feet long.
At least 0 33 square metres and at least 450mm high and 450mm wide within any glazed door up to 1500mm from floor level.